136 St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury. 
part Salisbury, sometimes Salsary Hall, the other Little St. Edmund 
Hall, on the site of which now stand Brasenose Hall, and part of 
their library.” Antony Wood, who records this, also tells us that 
‘the [Salisbury] scholars had a privilege among them, that on the 
testimony of the chancellor of that church of their standing and 
profit in letters, they might proceed to degrees in the university of 
Oxford.” But this no doubt would rather apply to the Cathedral 
scholars, for whom the chancellor was answerable. 
In Leland’s time (1540) we read that “part of these scholars 
remain in the college at Salisbury, and have two chaplains to serve 
the Church there being dedicate to St. Nicholas: the residue study 
at Oxford.” Here we have a testimony to the lastingness of the 
arrangement whereby some of the Valley Scholars were always at 
Oxford: and also a witness to the fact that the ‘ Church ” or 
“Chapel” at the Valley College was dedicated to St. Nicholas. 
Further, as to the connection between the two institutions, Mr. 
Hickman tells us that “ in some old papers ’tis said that the College 
de Vaux was a part of the hospital (that is, belonging to the 
hospital) of St. Nicholas, and was suppressed in the time of King 
Henry VIII. or Edward VI. . . . Besides there are (or have 
been doors) in an old wall over against St. Nicholas’, which seems to 
intimate a communication formerly between those two old religious 
foundations.” If this is true the doors must have been in the 
north-west corner of the St. Nicholas’ ground: and yet the com- 
munication cannot have been a private one, as there must always 
have been the breadth of the road which still runs between them.! 
Meantime there can be no question that St. Nicholas was more 
wealthy in land than the Valley College: and yet that the latter 
possessed land independently of the former there is equally no doubt. 
In addition to the lands at Wilsford, Broad Hinton, Gerardstone, 
Fisherton, and New Sarum which were already theirs, the hospital 
acquired about 1840 a valuable gift of land in East Harnham from 
1 This would be true supposing that the Harnham road always struck the Close 
wall at right angles, as now. But may it not possibly have run straight from 
the hospital to the Close gate, and so left room upon the north-east for the Valley 
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