156 St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury. 
himself certified that during the twenty years between 1851 and 
1870 the amount which he derived from the hospital for his own 
use was only £196 11s. 7d. 
I succeeded Mr. Howman upon his death in 1878; and in 1884 
I pulled down and re-built the master’s house, carefully preserving, 
however, the old arcade of arches, and as far as possible the old 
character of the building. If in any degree I have been successful 
in this, it is mainly due to the interest in the old building of the 
Rev. Lewis Gidley, the late chaplain, whose acquaintance with the 
hospital was far greater than my own. . 
There is still much to be done at the hospital in the way of further 
development of the charity. These things must wait for the neces- 
sary funds, and perhaps will be carried out by a future generation ; 
but meantime I rejoice to have put on record in this shape the 
history of the hospital in its three stages :—as the unknown founder 
designed it; as Bingham made it a hospital for the sick with 
brethren and nurses; as Beauchamp restricted it to twelve pensioners; 
who still, in spite of threats of dissolution which from time to time 
have been heard, enjoy its bounty. 
APPENDIX A. 
“Carta Comitissee Ele de assarto in Bentlewood. 
“ Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Ela comitissa 
Sarum salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me intuitu Dei et pro salute 
animz domini mei Willelmi Longspee Comitis Sarum, et pro salute anime mex, 
et pro animabus patris et matris me, liberorum, antecessorum, et heredum 
meorum, dedisse, concessisse, et presenti Charta confirmasse Deo et Hospitali 
Sancti Nicholai de nova Sarum, et venerabili in Christo patri Richardo episcopo 
et successoribus suis episcopis Sarum, ad sustentationem pauperum et infirmorum 
Hospitalis quod plene est in ordinatione predictorum Richardi episcopi et suc- 
cessorum suorum episcoporum Sarum, Totam terram clausi mei australis de 
Bentle[s]wood que mihi remansit post donum quod feci Johanni de Monemue, 
Willelmo de Nevill, Alluredo de Boterell personze de West Deane, per concordiam 
coram Justitiariis itinerantibus inter me et ipsos factam, cum bosco et assarto, 
pratis et pasturis, viis et semitis, libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, et 
omnibus aliis rebus ad eandem terram pertinentibus, cum clauso de Buclea. 
Concessi etiam pradictoHospitali sexaginta averia cum exitibus unius anni, et duo- 
decim equos vel equas et sexaginta porcos, et trecentas oves. Habenda in perpetuum 
libere et quiete in pastura, per omnia loca ubi praedicti Johannes de Monemue, 
Willelmus de Nevill, Alluredus de Boterell persona de West Deane habent mecum 
communia, vel ego cum eis; omnia autem preedicta habebunt et tenebunt preefati 
