3386 An Indenture for building a House at Salisbury. 
curious, and form a striking contrast to the usages of the present 
day. During the mayoralty of John Hall in 1451, we find :— 
“A gift to our Lord the King, for six large oxen and two smaller ones, and 
for fifty sheep, £12. 148. Od. 
For a hogshead of Wine, six quarters of corn, six pipes of ale, given to 
the Reverend Father, Richard, Bishop of Sarum, at the time of his installation, 
£18. 13s. 4d. 
Paid William Swayne and Edmund Penston, citizens of the said city, for 
the Parliament at Westminster, which terminated at Leicester, £22. Us. Od. 
_ Fora pipe of wine, given to Mr. John Seymour, Sheriff of Wilts, to conciliate 
his good offices, 65 shillings.” 
A great deal of curious information concerning the habits and 
possessions of a citizen of Salisbury during the fifteenth century may 
be gleaned from Hatcher and Benson’s History, already quoted ; 
several elaborate inventories are printed there, giving the most 
minute account of the contents of a private house of that period, 
also the details of the furniture and fittings of the George hostelry 
in 1478, shewing the rough sort of accommodation then afforded to 
travellers at a good inn. At this time too the citizens of Salisbury 
must have been excited by the strange and tedious proceedings con- 
nected with the canonization of St. Osmund, who died in 1099, 
but was only inserted in the catalogue of Saints in 1457 by Pope 
Calixto. 
It only remains to add, that the original indenture is now preserved 
in the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum. 

