112 The Bt'lfry foruwrtii .standiny in the Clone, Salifiburi/. 



Again, in 1633 is the following : — 



" For new oylinge and cullaringe the dyall on the helfree (i.v., and for setting 

 up and taking down the scaffold 8rf." 



From very early times shops and other buildings stood very near 

 the Belfry, if some were not actually built against it. There is 

 reference to these in 1473, when " three shoppis subtus le belfray " 

 are mentioned. Also in 1558 the rent of "two Shoppes " in the 

 west part of the Belfry is credited. Some of them were used for 

 workshops or stores in connection with the Cathedral, while others 

 were let as shops or dwelling-hoTises, and one as an inn or " ale- 

 liouse," which so continued until 1790, when the whole of these 

 buildings were taken down with tlie Belfry. In 1627, by a decree 

 of the court of quarter sessions, all the alehouses in the Close were 

 suppressed, with the exception of the one kept by Hugh Maunds, 

 who was a labourer emjtloyed about tlie work of the Cathedi'al, and 

 one of the ringers, so tliat probably he kept the alehouse under tlie 

 belfry. In March, 1757, the Dean and Chapter ordered " tliat no 

 liquors be sold at the Belfry after Michaelmas next." 



The charges relating to the bells in the Clerk of the "Works' 

 accounts are innumerable, the bells, or the parts belonging to them, 

 seeming to be always getting out of order. One of the earliest 

 entries in 1473 is for 



" Blostryng le stokke magn. campan and torning le cloke boll p two dies in la 

 belfray." 



In the same year and subsequently the Sacrist, or Sexton, was 

 j)aid a shilling per annum for oiling the bolls. The followiug 

 l)ayments in the accounts for 1480 refer to a new bell : — 



" Et in denar Solut Thome Grey and John Breute i>ro carriag nov campan dr 

 Domo eneator usque le belfray iij'. — iiij''. 

 " r.ope for the new bell 36"^'. l^''. iij'.— ix"*. 

 " Timba pro le belstoeke." 



The first item proves that a bell-foundry existed in Salisbury at 

 least a centui-y before the earliest date hitherto assigned to it, viz., 

 1581, when it was carried on by John Wallis, who in that year 

 cast a new bell lor St. Martin's Church, in Salisbury. The foundry 



