By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 175 
eartload of hay from our meadow of Bugmore, as well as the grass 
growing within the precincts of the palace. If these emoluments 
are not paid he has the right to enter the manor of Milford and 
distrain. This deed is dated “ At our Manor of Remmesbury, 24th 
June, 1495, the 10th year of King Henry the VIIth, and of our 
eonsecration the second.” This grant was confirmed by the Chapter 
during the vacancy after Bishop Blyth’s death, 7th August, 1499. 
It appears from a phrase in it that this office of caretaker was not a 
new one, and we may presume that it was a profitable one. Bishop 
Blyth was, however, probably not so much non-resident as many of 
his contemporaries—since he ordained nine times in the Cathedral 
(seven of these in the Lady Chapel)—as against nine times in six 
other Churches, not one of which was at Ramsbury. You will 
pardon what may seem to be something of a digression, though it 
certainly illustrates the relation of the house to the diocese. 
The third division of the house is, as you remember, Bishop 
Beauchamp’s Hall. This hall was very much ruined in the time of 
the Civil Wars, and it is therefore very difficult to recover its plan ; 
nor is it easy to understand how it was connected originally with 
the work of Bishop Poore and with the chapel, which are distant a 
good many feet from it. I am inclined to think that there was a 
long low range of buildings, containing a kitchen and other offices 
on the ground-floor, and bedrooms or store-rooms above, running 
pretty much where the present red briek and plastered wing does 
which faces south towards Bishop Denison’s pretty enclosed garden. 
Mr. Reeve will tell you what he thinks about it in detail, but I may 
say that when the Royal Archeological Institute was here in 1887 
the members were generally of opinion that Bishop Beauchamp’s 
Hall ran north and south, like Bishop Poore’s, which it must at one 
time have faced, when the court was open. There was then a 
passage leading by its side from the main door in the tower to 
ecclesiae Cathedralis Sarum antedictae in omnibus semper salvis. In cuius 
rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apposuimus Datum 
in domo nostra capitulari Sarum quoad sigilli appositionem vicesimo septimo 
die mensis Augusti Anno Domini millesimo ccecc™? nonagesimo nono.” 
Compare a similar grant from Ri. Poore to Jordan Marescal of the custody 
of his houses in London, in 1223 (Jones’ Register of 8. Osmund, ii., p. 24). 
