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hear of any such; but there must always have been the difference 
between the two that the College de Vaux was founded to support 
the older views in theology, which the Cathedral students may well 
have thought reactionary and old-fashioned. 
In the foundation deed of the college in 1261! Bishop Giles says 
that he founds, to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and St. Nicholas, 
a house for the use and property of scholars, to be called “ the College 
of the Valley Scholars of St. Nicholas,” by consent of Robert the 
dean and the chapter of Sarum, the master and brethren of the 
hospital of St. Nicholas, in the meadow hard by the Cathedral, 
and the highway in front of the said hospital, for the support 
of a warden, two chaplains, and twenty poor, needy, well- 
born, and teachable scholars, serving the Lord and St. Nicholas 
in that place, and living therein and studying and making progress 
in the Holy Scriptures and the liberal arts. He ordains that on 
the cession or decease of Sir John Holtby, Canon of Salisbury, now 
warden of the house, the new warden should be elected by the dean 
and chapter, out of the number of the canons, or at least with their 
consent, and should have full right of correction within the circuit 
of the said house. The deed was sealed with the seal of the dean 
and chapter, and with that of the master and brethren of St. 
Nicholas; and witnessed by the chancellor, the archdeacon of Wilts, 
the sub-dean, and two canons; Reginald Wych, the Mayor of 
Salisbury, besides many other laymen. 
This introduces us at once to a large question, on which we get 
singularly little light from either side, namely, what were the 
relations subsisting between the hospital of St Nicholas and the 
Valley College? 
St. Nicholas’ hospital was by this time a rich institution. Land 
had been literally showered upon it: and if it be true that Bingham 
had ever built to the full extent of his apparent design, it was a 
spacious as well as a rich foundation. At this very time we hear 
in one of the deeds’ of a “ street in new Salisbury called St. 
1 This deed is not in the cartulary : but Hatcher and Benson give it from the 
Liber Evidentiarum in the Cathedral. 
2 Reg. Sarum, 12. 
