By Amherst D. Tyssen, D.G.L., M.A. 363 



A noble was a gold coin worth 6s. M. We learn from this will 

 that it was also called a nobilatum. 



It will be seen that the sum which Alice Barbor directs to be 

 distributed at her funeral amounts to 1000 pence: and as she 

 adds that one half-penny is to be given to each poor person, she 

 must have estimated that there would be two thousand applicants. 

 This seems to be rather a large crowd for Salisbury to have pro- 

 duced five hundred years ago. 



The descriptions contained in the two wills enable us to form a 

 tolerably clear idea of the properties in question. Melmonger 

 Street evidently ran north and south and Winchester Street east 

 and west. At the junction stood the house devised by John 

 Barbor, facing southwards in Winchester Street, and having a 

 return frontage on Melmonger Street towards the west. Winchester 

 Street still exists: while Melmonger Street is now known as 

 Green Croft Street, and the continuation of it to the south was 

 formerly called Bell-founders Street, and is now known as Guilder's 

 Lane and Culver Street. The house devised by John Barbor was 

 evidently not required for his business, and was probably let at 

 his death to John Fure, the tenant mentioned in John Barber's 

 will. We may presume that it was settled in such a way that 

 Alice Barbor took the rent of it during her life and that subject 

 thereto it was at John Barber's disposal. 



North of John Barber's corner house stood T. Knoel's house in 

 Melmonger Street, with a garden behind it running down to 

 Winchester Street, and bounding the corner house on the eastern 

 side. To the east of this garden in Winchester Street stood the 

 newly-constructed house devised to John Barbor, the son. The 

 depth of this property is given as 65^ feet, on the side of T. Knoel's 

 garden, and 63| feet on the other side, with a width of 25^ feet at 

 the back against vacant land. The frontage on Winchester Street 

 was therefore probably about 25 feet. The feet are called joedes 

 regulares, which doubtless means standard feet. To the east of 

 the newly-constructed house came the gateway devised to Peter 

 Barbor with a room over it devised to John the son together with 

 the house to the westward. On the eastern side of the gateway 



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