By the Rev. Canon Moberly. 123 
He puts the whole under the wardenship of one man (the aforesaid 
sub-dean), a priest who is to act under the Dean and Chapter, with 
three other priests under him: so that while two of the four lodge 
at “the house opposite to the chapel,” and two at the hospital, all 
four are to eat together in the hospital refeetory, and to be clothed 
alike in a russet coat closed round the throat, and to keep step to- 
gether. Then follow details as to the services to be said by each 
separately. While the first pair were to say the canonical hours in 
the chapel, the third priest (who was left over for the hospital) was 
to serve the sick by saying a mass for the brothers and sisters who 
have been benefactors to the hospital, and for any who have died 
there: to visit the sick diligently, and be careful about the advice 
he gives, with the arrangement of the warden, as to penitence and 
confessions: and to bury the dead, at which the other chaplams were 
not compelled to be present. The warden is to preside and set a 
good example to the chaplains and servants, and to realize that he 
is principally bownd to serve the Chapel of St. Nicholas neat the 
hospital, and there to use the same ritual which obtains in the 
Cathedral. He must besides pay the due stipends to each of his 
assistants, and keep the bridge in repair; the rest of the gifts to the 
hospital and bridge are to go for the relief of the poor. This is 
signed by all the dignitaries of the chapter, together with the sub- 
dean and sub-chanter. 
The chapel of St. John the Baptist on the bridge is still standing, 
but has been used for the last fifty years as an ordinary dwelling- 
house. I hope soon to be able to restore it to a worthier use = 
meanwhile its triple lancet window, running the whole length of 
the three floors of the modern dwelling-house, is a conspicuous: 
object from the stream above it, or from the garden of the hospital. 
For three hundred years exactly—from 1244 to 1545—the salaries: 
of the priests that officiated there, and the repairs of the bridge 
itself, were paid by the masters of St. Nicholas, who recouped 
themselyes with the offerings made by pious wayfarers who turned 
aside from the road to this wayside chapel. 
And now what was the staff of the hospital, and who were its 
inmates? Light is thrown upon this question by various casual 
