130 St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury. 
suspected that the south wall of this building is old; at least in its 
lower courses of stones. Can it be the original wall of the beginning 
of the thirteenth century? Notice especially the old doorway near 
the west end of it: exactly in the spot where Hickman’s map 
figures a door in the “ old hospital.” 
III.—Bisuors Bripport AND WYLEY. 
1257—1271. 
Bishop Bingham died in the next year (1246) after he had finished 
the building and constitution of his triple work—bridge, chapel, and 
hospital. In the next episcopate, which lasted nine years, that of 
William of York (1246—1256), the third Church and advowson 
was given to the hospital besides the Churches of Wilsford and 
Burstock.!. On August 19th, 1253, Sir Richard Hinton gave “ to 
God, the Blessed Mary and Saint Nicholas of Salisbury,” the per- 
petual advowson of Broad Hinton Church, near Swindon, together 
with six acres of land, and two days afterwards Bishop William 
confirmed the gift.? 
But William of York died in 1256; and the next year Giles 
Bridport, the dean of Wells, was consecrated bishop. He appears 
to have been a bishop with theories of his own, for which he used 
the benefactions of his predecessors without much caring to abide 
by their intentions. It is very curious to study the devotion of 
successive bishops to some one form of benefaction of their own 
devising, which their successors sweep entirely away in equal devotion 
to some other scheme. Thus the constitution of bridge, chapel, and 
hospital, which Bishop Bingham had so carefully elaborated, was 
swept ruthlessly aside; the new bishop had set his heart upon 
another scheme. He wished to found a theological college in 
Salisbury, and to connect it with St. Nicholas; and he changed the 
constitution of St. Nicholas itself, constituting himself and his 
1 The Church of Burstock, near Beaminster, had been given by Bishop 
Bingham, in 1248. 
2 John Manningford gave much land at Gerardstone to the hospital in 1256, 
—Reg. Gerardst., 28,29. And in 1258 Richard and Sibill Ancher gave land in 
Fisherton Anger.—J0, Fishert., 3, 4. 
