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of the Meeting and excursions. It cannot be said, however, that 
his efforts were seconded by the inhabitants of the capital of 
Wiltshire as a whole, with any perceptible warmth, and the result 
from a financial point of view was distinctly disappointing, and so 
far from the Cathedral Spire Fund benefitting, as it was hoped and 
expected that it might, from the balance of the Meeting, the Society 
found itself in a position which it had not occupied for many years 
—with a small deficit to make up after the expenses of the Meeting 
had been met. 
The Ancient Sub-Chantrey House formerly in 
| Ghe Close, Salishurp. 
HE premises in the Close, now occupied as the Salisbury 
Diocesan Training College, besides the more extensive 
. range of buildings known as the King’s House, also includes the 
site of an old house called the Sub-Chantry, it having formerly 
been appropriated as the residence of the sub-chanter or succentor 
of the Cathedral, which office is now held by the Rev. 8. M. Lakin. 
The Sub-Chantry House was situated between the King’s House 
and the Deanery, and like them it stood back a considerable distance 
from the road, having an open space before it, the greater part of 
which was many years ago added to the grounds of the Deanery. 
In 1849 the trustees of the Training College acquired possession 
of the King’s House and premises, as well as those of the Sub- 
Chantry, which included a garden extending to the river, when the 
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