266 Cathedral Life and Work at Sarum in Olden Times. 



George Danyell of Steple Asliton, gen' 

 John Flower of West Ashton 



John Biirges of do 



John Carpenter of Ellington 



Walter Graye of Wilton 

 Richard Wliite do 

 Richard Graye do 

 William Sharpe do 

 John Hayes do 



' Wilton Boeough 



John Smyth do 



Humphrey Ditton do 

 John Everley do 



Thomas Hayes do 

 Walter Brasyer do ' 



CatljAnil ^§\it m^ SSatl^ at cSarum iti 



By W. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., &c., 



Canon of Sarum and Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon. 



JO much interest is felt at the present time in our cathedrals, 

 ^^jjra and so many hopes raised as to their being before long 

 instrumental in again fulfilling more fully the great ends for which 

 they were at the first established, that a sketch of what the cathedral 

 body at Sarum was, and what it accomplished, in the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries, may not be unacceptable to our readers. 



This especial period is fixed upon, because it was then, that, on 

 the removal of the cathedral from Old to New Sarum, bishop 

 Richard Poore re-organised his chapter, and, as internal evidence 

 proves, the consuetudinary of St. Osmund, was, so to speak, re- 

 edited, and adapted to the requirements of the time. Certainly it 

 was the era during which the discipline and. ritual of the cathedral 

 was at the highest point which it ever reached. And it is of some 

 little interest to remember, that the cathedral statutes draw^n up 

 during that period, in the episcopate of Roger de Mortival, save so 



