By the late Rev. R. H. Clutterbuck, F.S.A. 143 
dedication for gilds. The characters, who are called Johnny Jacks, 
or Mummers, or Christmas Boys, are dressed in a costume of fringes 
of wall paper, of which I show a specimen. The play as acted in 
the neighbourhood of Andover has been printed by the Salisbury 
Journal, and may be had at the Jowrnal Office in a small pamphlet 
form. We must come now to the question as to how these funds 
were used. In Andover the objects were the maintenance of some 
almshouses known as the Spytal, which still exist, and the main- 
tenance of a stipendiary priest, whom we should describe as an 
assistant curate. At Basingstoke, where the Fraternity Chapel is 
such a well-known object, the education of youth was the good 
work undertaken, and at the suppression of the chantries, on the 
petition of Lord Sandys, it was refounded as the Grammar School, 
and the master of that school is still cited to visitations as “ Chaplain 
of the Chapel of the Holy Ghost.” The late Dr. Millard published 
the accounts of the Fraternity from 1557 to 1653. The Fraternity 
we know most about in Salisbury was that of the Jesus Mass at St. 
Edmund’s, and its name indicates the chief object of its endeavours, 
namely, the provision of a daily celebration for the parishioners. 
You will of course remember that St. Edmund’s was a collegiate 
Church, and its own staff would be occupied with their own services, 
and those for which they were responsible. But the parishioners 
had the use of the nave, and at the altar of the Holy Cross in the 
nave, they, through the agency of this Fraternity, provided them- 
selves with their own service. From the fact, I suppose, of their 
using the altar dedicated to the Holy Cross they are sometimes 
ealled the Brethren and Sisters of the Fraternity of Jesus and the 
Holy Cross. There was an altar at St. Edmund’s dedicated to the 
name of Jesus. Their priest had for his “wages” £5 6s. 8d. a 
year as a regular thing, though he got a few extras. Tor instance, 
on the Fridays in Lent he sang Salve, for which he got 7s. extra. 
The Salve is an antiphon sung in procession with the choir, the 
priest vested in a cope, the choir present with lights. It was sung 
after Compline, and therefore both priests and choir were allowed 
_ their supper. The account is entered in this way :— 
“ for brede and ale for priests and clarkes singing at Salve in Lent 5s. 8d.” 
