334 An Indenture for building a House at Salisbury. 
a resolution was passed in Convocation, that, against the arrival of 
the King, liveries of green colour should be ordered under the in- 
spection of Robert Warmwell and others. It was also settled, that 
the minstrels should be retained as formerly, and receive their livery 
before the Feast of the Nativity. Robert Warmwell was a draper, 
and left a bequest of twenty pounds to the Mayor and Commonalty; 
the money was applied to the construction of the bars or gates, as 
the means of improving the defences of the city. 
The name of Warmwell appears more than once in the form of 
commemoration for the deceased members of the confraternity of St. 
George. The religious meetings of this guild were probably held 
in St. Thomas’s Church. The spandrels of the arches on the south 
wall of the chancel, forming one side of the Swayne Chapel, are 
covered with badges of St. George, brought to light a few years 
since, when alterations were being made: a drawing from a fresco of 







that saint, which was necessarily destroyed at the time, is preserved 
in the Salisbury Museum. William Warmwell, who died in 1399, 
left to the altar of St. Michael, in the Church of St. Thomas, a 
missal and a chalice, silver gilt, a water vessel, silver gilt, and a 
pax-bred of ivory, with harness, silver and gilt; also a psaltery, to 
be chained in the cell, or seat, which he had been accustomed to 
occupy. He seems to have had some superstitious partiality for 
numbers, as he directed that 3500 masses be celebrated for the wel- 
fare of his soul and the souls of those to whom he is under obligation, 
and 3500 pence to be distributed singly among feeble poor, within 
the city and without. 
From the will of Joanna, wife of William Warmwell, who be- 
queathed to her husband a corner tenement in Minster Street, which 
is called Castle Street, we learn that the whole line, now called 
Castle Street, Minster Street, and High Street, in the earliest times, 
bore the general name of Minster Street. The lower portion re- 
ceived the name of High Street, which it still bears, in the beginning 
of the fifteenth century. This William Warmwell is the subject of 
a curious notice in Hatcher’s “ History of Salisbury,” page 100. ; 
“ William Teynterer, junior, at his death, bequeathed the value of 
certain hereditaments for charitable purposes, to the Mayor and 
