By the Rev. Canon Moberly. 141 
“The chapel of St. Nicholas Sarum, within the hospital at the same 
place, was consecrated on the Thursday of the Paschal Week, 7.¢., 
the 15th day of April, 1501, by the venerable father Sir John, Bishop 
of Mayo, at that time the suffragan of the reverend father Henry, 
Bishop of Salisbury ; and the same day the cemetery was reconciled. 
Witness, myself William Wylton then warden of the said hospital, 
and others.” 
Let us pause to remark on the significance of this entry. 
1. The “‘ Wiltshire Institutions,” which have supplied us with 
the list of masters regularly since 1597, that is for the last hundred 
years, fail us after the institution of Geoffrey Blyth in 1494, and 
record none till that of Geoffrey Bigge in 1593—that is for the 
next hundred years. Why is this? I can account for it in no other 
way than by supposing that the controversy as to the patronage of 
the hospital, which had been settled by Bishop Blyth, was re-opened 
on Bishop Deane’s appointment, and closed by the patronage being 
given to the dean and chapter, the wardenship no longer being 
considered an office requiring episcopal institution. Thus, though 
Warden Wilton was one of the chapter themselves, and though 
others may have been prebendaries, for the next hundred years 
there was no guarantee against laymen holding the office of warden 
—a thing contravening the whole spirit of Bishop Bingham’s 
foundation charter. 
2. Henry Deane was promoted from the see of Bangor to that of 
Salisbury in 1500, and the next year advanced to that of Canterbury, 
where he became papal legate. He can hardly have been resident 
- at Salisbury at all: but in 1501 he appointed John Bell, Bishop of 
Mayo, to act for him as suffragan, and it was he that consecrated 
St. Nicholas’ chapel. It looks as if Bishop Blyth had intended to 
do it, had he not died; and they got the first episcopal services that 
they could. But what had happened that this should require con- 
secration? Had it not been consecrated before? And the “ ceme- 
tery,” or “litton”—which he “ reconciled,” or re-consecrated after 
 defilement—on the same day : what had happened to this? We know 
from Mr. Hickman’s map, that the old “ litton,” or burying ground, 
was the piece of ground extending along the north side of the 
