By the late Rev. R. H. Clutterbuck, F.S_A. 145 
one of these writs issued as to one of the Andover chantries. The 
statutes for the government and regulation of these Fraternities are 
still extant to the number of more than five hundred, enough to 
teach us the characteristic purposes and value of these institutions. 
_ They are the remnant of a return ordered by Parliament in the 
twelfth year of Richard IT., 1388. 
They are full of interest, and would be well worth examining 
for the sake of the light they would shed on these examples at 
Salisbury, but time will not permit of my doing so now. The 
Early English Text Society printed them in 1870, with notes by 
__ the late Toulmin Smith and an introduction. by Dr. Brentano, to 
which I must refer you. 
I come now to the saddest record in the accounts of this once 
admirable Fraternity in Salisbury. It runs thus :— 
“Symon Hamsterley Stuard of Jesus Masse hath delyuered to William 
Helbroke xxiijs. vjd the xxviij day of Aprell in the xxvijth yere of Kynge Henry ~ 
the viijth. Md that William Holbrowke Steward of J’hs mas hathe made a dewe 
and a clere accompte the day and yere a bouseyd (the xxiij day of marche A° 
mecccexxxvi) and hathe delyuered vnto Davy Sydnam at the day of the seyd 
accompte xxxvs. ijd. Md that Davy Sydhnam hathe made a dewe accompte, the 
xiiij day off Aprell A° mecccexxxvij and owthe none arreragis to the churche.” 
* April 22, 1547, Christopher Tomson paid to Robert Harryson 29s. 9d. and 
ys clerely dyscharged & acquyted, there beyng present Mr. wyllyam Hanna 
mayre, Mr. Rob. Holmes, Mr. Wyllyam bryan, Mr. Thomas shorte, Mr. Apo 
chafyn yonger ffolkes Mownslow and William Kent.” 
This is the statement from the fraternity side of the result of the 
commission issued by Henry VIII. or Edward VI. to enquire and 
_ report on all the “Colleges, Chauntreys, free chapels, ffraternyties, 
 Brotherhoods, Stypendaryes, Obbitts, Lyghts, lamps and Anniver- 
_ saries.” The report on the Fraternity of the Jesus Mass at St. 
_ Edmund’s was that the incumbent was Nicholas Duryes, of the age 
‘of 63 years; that the property was worth £7 15s. 4d., from which 
7s. 4d. had to be paid to the bishop as quit rent, and 6s. to the 
priest of Tudworth’s Chantry in St. Edmund’s Church, so that the 
clear value was £7 2s. ; 
“that the sayd Incumbent is a man of honest behavyor and fame, albeit a very 
_ poore man, and hath none other lyving but the service before written, and 
furthermore he is not able to serve a cure by reason that he is impotente.” 
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