64, Confirmation of the Guild of the Holy Ghost. 
To what extent this happened is not clear, but the following 
document, which is amongst “the dockets” or summaries of the 
transactions of the Privy Council, A D. 1640, tell us of its restoration 
to some degree of health under Charles the First. 
I print only enough of the docket to shew the meaning of the 
entry that relates to this chapel, it is written on a sheet of white 
paper, of which the writing occupies three sides :— 
“ Dockets. 
“29 die April 1640. 
“The four usuall warrants to the Exchequer for the charges of redd cloth 
Spangles Embrodery of Coates for his Ma‘ Guards and other his Ma* and the 
Queene’s servants for this 16 yeare of his Ma Raigne subsc* by the Clerke of 
the Exchequer; procured by Mr. Secretary Windebank. 
“ Three usual warrants. 
“A warrant to the Lord Tres' and other officers of the Exchequer about the 
accompt of James Dupper Esq. 
“A grant by his Majesty to convert the impropriate Rectory of Cirencester 
into a Rectory presentative with cure of souls. 
“Like grant, Hayerfordwest, Kc. 
* # * * * * 
“A confirmation to the Alderman and Wardens of the ffraternity called the 
Holy Ghost neere Basingstoke in the County of Southton and their Successors of 
certaine messuages, lands, and ten* in Basingstoke to the intent that they should 
w*® the Revenues and pfitts thereof find out one fitt and able priest to celebrate 
divine service in the Chappell called Holy Ghost Chappell and to keepe a schoole 
and teach and instruct the children and youth of the said Toune as it was graunted 
unto them by K Philip and Q Mary 24 ffebr in the third and fourth yeares of 
their Raigne w*" this further use now That w' the Revenues thereof they may 
also repayre the chappell and schoole house. Subsc* for ut supra upon signification 
of his Ma* pleasure by S' Sidney Mountague ; procur* ut Supra. 
“ WaRWICK.” 
The name “ Warwick” at the end of the docket, is that of the 
newly-appointed ! (1640) Privy Councillor, Robert Rich, Earl of 
Warwick, and “ the confirmation” of the Guild and the restoration 
of the Chapel would not, in the times then soon to come, he for- 
gotten by that nobleman— whom we hear of some years later as the 
jovial lover of schismatics—the grandfather of Frances Cromwell’s 
husband—the friend of “ My Lord Protector.” 
No doubt the lead from the roof of the Chapel was very useful at 
the siege of Basing House! 
1 Clarendon’s History. 
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