The Fraternities of Sarum. 137 
Advertisement of the expected return of the Comet of 1532 and 1661, in the 
year 1788, vol. Ixxvi., p. 426. 
Concerning the Latitude and Longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich 3 
with remarks on a Memorial of the late M. Cassini de Thury, vol. Ixxvii., 
151. 
An Steen pt to explain a difficulty in the Theory of Vision, depending on the 
different Refrangibility of Light, vol. lxxix., p. 256. 
Observations on the Comet of 1793, vol. Ixxxiii., p. 55. 
An account of an Appearance of Light, like a Star, seen in the dark part of the 
Moon, vol. lxxxiv., p. 435. 
On a property of the tangent of three arches trisecting the circumference of a 
circle, vol. exvii., p. 122. 
Che Fraternities of Sarum. 
By the late Rev. R. H. Cuurrersucr, F.S.A.’ 
[Read at the Salisbury Meeting of the Society, 1896.] 
WANT to ask your attention to the fact that we are met 
. in a venerable city, which can show, perhaps, more com- 
pletely than any other spot in the South of England what were the 
‘most developed features of social ahd religious life throughout the 
Middle Ages. And its records are so complete that there can 
hardly be a subject of enquiry for the antiquary to engage in for 
which New Sarum would not supply authorities and illustrations. 
TI shall try and confine myself within the narrowest limits, and 
trust to future opportunities of presenting more ample notes, which 
“may probably be more useful and less tedious, in a printed form. 
You will observe I have chosen for the title of my paper “ The 
Fraternities of Salisbury,” and I had better thus early define what I 
intend to include in that definition. I mean by the Fraternities those 
-1The lamented death of the author soon after the reading of this paper— 
whereby the cause of archeology in Salisbury and on the Hampshire border has 
suffered an irreparable loss—has deprived this paper of those “‘ more ample notes ” 
which he had intended to give in illustration of it. It is here reprinted as it 
tands in the columns of the Salisbury Journal, July 16th, 1896.—[Ep.] 
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