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repose of her soul and that of her husband {the late William 
Longespee), her south close in Bentley wood, with a copse and waste 
(bosco et assarto), meadows, pastures, &c., and the close of Buckley, 
to God, the Hospital of St. Nicholas of New Sarum, and Bishop 
Richard of the same and his successors. 
The second deed! is copied as the first of the deeds which begins 
the cartulary. It is a deed of Bishop Richard Poore, dated Friday, 
8th September, 1227, from the priory of (Monkton) Farleigh. He 
gives to the “‘ Hospital of Sarum” certain rights in Wilsford 
Church, reciting at the same time two deeds which he has previously 
received: one from H(enry), prior, and the convent of Farleigh, 
placing at his disposal the Churches of Box and Wilsford, which 
belonged to their advowson; the other from Humphrey Bohun, 
Earl of Hereford (great grandson of another Humphrey, who was 
founder of Farleigh Priory, and donor to it of the Churches of Box 
and Wilsford), confirming the same. The property he thus gives 
is to keep a chaplain to say mass at the hospital for the souls of all 
its benefactors, and he casually mentions a steward (procurator) of 
the house. 
II.—Bisuor Bincuam. 
-1229—1246. 
In 1229 Bishop Richard Poore was translated to Durham: and 
Robert Bingham, the most learned of his canons (“a man of great 
learning, and a long time master in theology,” says his own dean), 
was appointed his successor. 
Besides being a theologian he was great also in practical matters, 
The Cathedral had been begun and consecrated while he had been 
canon, and was now advancing towards completion ; but the city 
which had slowly risen round it was only approachable from the 
south with difficulty and sometimes danger. The Avon had been 
apt to flood all the neighbouring tracts of land: to diminish the 
trouble and risk of crossing it (there was only as yet a foot-bridge, 
all horses had to pass by the ford, which at times was quite un- 
discernible) an upper channel had some time before been dug some 
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