154 St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury. 
at New College, Oxford : and this preferment was followed by his 
being appointed Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock by Bishop Hyde, 
who also made him his chaplain, in 1667; fellow of Winchester, 
1667; Warden of New College, 1675, which he resigned to become 
Warden of Winchester College, 1679: and finally prebendary of 
Winchester, 1684. He is well known to Winchester boys as the 
builder of the hall which till this generation has been known as 
* School.” 
He also executed great repairs at St. Nicholas’; where, by the 
way, he does not seem to have resided himself. In 1662 he built 
a “chaplain’s chamber,” or bedroom over the study, approached by a 
continuation of the staircase to the study. In 1668 he repaired the 
great porch. In 1673 he boarded the floors of the inmates’ rooms. 
From 1675 to 1679 he was at work on the chapel,which he wainscoted, 
carving coats of arms on the wainscot, and setting upa pulpit. In 
1625 he walled with brick the colonnade of arches, which till then 
had been open, thus making a covered passage inside, and warming 
the inmates’ rooms. 
While he was master there were three episcopal visitations : one 
by Bishop Henchman in 1662, at the beginning of his mastership : 
two more by Seth Ward in 1670 and 1677. We have the questions 
of the first and third of these, and the answers made to them by 
the master. From these it appears that in 1662 one of the brothers 
was expelled as a disorderly person. In 1677 the master stated that 
he had one MS. volume of records and evidences—no doubt the 
actual volume now called the Old Register: and that he had in a 
chest in the master’s lodgings the “ charter” or “original foundation” 
of the hospital with other indentures and papers (since lost). 
Dr. John Nicholas died at Winchester in 1711, and was succeeded 
by Thomas Burnet, afterwards Rector of West Keynton, near 
Chippenham, who was collated by Bishop Burnet, whose youngest 
1In 1703 Christopher London, the chaplain and steward, died, and was 
succeeded by Edmund Hickman in both offices. Mr. Hickman compiled the 
MS., which is my second source of information for this paper. He died in 1728 ; 
“a very honest diligent man, living much beloved, and dying lamented.” 
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