By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 173 
some too Protestant, when it was again brought into use. I may 
mention while on the subject of these ordination lists, that they do 
not with us, go back beyond Bishop Hallam’s register (1408—17), 
and that they show that it was common to perform the ceremony 
in a very large number of Churches—such as the great eonventual 
~ Churches of Sherborne and Reading, Shaftesbury and Abingdon, 
the Dominican Church at Fisherton, and the Franciscan at Sarum : 
the parish Churches of some of the more important towns, such as 
Devizes and Marlborough; and especially in the chapels and 
Churches of the places where the bishop’s manors were situated. 
Thus Bishop Hallam ordained himself five times in the chapel of 
his manor at Potterne, and the same number of times in his chapel 
at Sonning. Bishop Beauchamp ordained nine times in his chapel 
at Ramsbury, and three times in Sonning Chapel. In the latter 
part of the fifteenth and beginning of the 16th century, Ramsbury 
seems to have been the favourite residence. Bishop Langton 
(1485—93) ordained eight times in Ramsbury Chapel, and eight 
times in the Church, and only once in the Cathedral. Bishop 
Audley (1502—21) ordained eighteen times in Ramsbury Chapel, 
which he is said to have built or re-built, and forty-eight in Ramsbury 
Church, or sixty-six times altogether at that manor, and ouly three 
times in the Cathedral, and five times in the Lady Chapel. His 
successor, Cardinal Laurence Campegio, never resided at all, hence 
we see the force of the suggestion why the Palace Chapel is not 
mentioned as being used for ordinations, since for many years it was 
_only an occasional residence of its tenants. A curious illustration 
of this neglect of the palace after Bishop Beauchamp’s time is given 
by a document which Mr. Malden has kindly supplied tome. This 
is a declaration by Bishop Blyth (1493—99) of the terms on which 
he has appointed John Alston as custos or warden of the palace.' 
1 BryTHE ReaisteER, folios 41 and 42. 
Note.—The contractions of the original have been expanded. 
“ Custodia palatii Sarum.—Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes 
littere pervenerint Johannes permissione divina Sarum Episcopus salutem in 
Auctore salutis. Sciatis nos pro bono et acceptabili servitio quod dilectus nobis 
in Christo Johannes Alston serviens noster nobis impendit ac favente domino 
