By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 167 
maremio dato ”=“ Grant of building materials,’ and runs :— 
“The King to Peter de Malo-Lacu health. Know that we have given to 
our venerable father Richard Bishop of Salisbury twenty couples (of beams) 
in our park of Gillingham to make his hall at New Sarum. And therefore 
we order you to let him have those twenty couples wherever he can most 
conveniently have them. Witness as above.” 
“(Westminster 9th May 1221).” 
“The second is endorsed “de x copulis datis ”—=‘ Grant of ten 
couples (of beams),” and runs as follows :— 
-“The King to John of Monmouth health. We order you to let the venerable 
father Richard Bp. of Salisbury have ten couples (of beams) of oak in our 
wood (haya) of Milcet, which we have given him to make his chamber at 
Sarum. Witness H. &c., at Neubir 30 Dec. in the sixth year of our reign 
by the same before our Lord of Winton.”=30 Dec. 1221. 
The interest of these rolls will be manifest to everyone who knows 
the character of domestic buildings of the twelfth and thirteenth 
centuries, and who is acquainted with the present house. They 
show that the house was begun almost as soon as the Lady Chapel 
—the earliest part of the Cathedral—and suggest that it was finished 
in all its essential features before Bishop Poore’s departure to Durham. 
A comparison also of the rolls with the existing building seems to 
prove that we possess nearly all his work. They speak first of a 
hall (aula) and then of a chamber (camera) which with their sub- 
structures and appendages would cover all the necessary parts of a 
house of the date in question. The identification of the hall is 
happily quite clear. It is, of course, the great upper room about 
54ft. long by 24ft. wide, now used as a drawing-room, which is 
immediately over the vaulted room and passage that I have just had 
the pleasure of restoring, with the kind advice and oversight of Mr. 
Arthur Reeve. This was the chief building, and was naturally 
completed first. ‘The chamber, I can have little doubt, is the block 
of building with a sharp pointed roof, which is set at the side of the 
south-west part of the “aula,” so as to form with it a building of 
the shape of a Greek gamma (I) or the right half of a capital T. 
According to Mr. Hudson Turner, in his well-known book on 
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