88 Hungerford Chapels in Salisbury Cathedral. 



service of rendering every year at the Castle of Rouen, one lance 

 with a fox's hrush hanging to it. " Which pleasant tenure," says 

 Camden, " I have thought not amiss to insert here amongst more 

 serious matters." The history of it is, that this was one of the 

 badges of the house of Lancaster ; an emblem in which certain his- 

 torical critics have recognized some allusion to the wiliness of King 

 Henry IV. 's character, who is said to have acted now and then 

 upon the advice of a much more ancient public man, Lysander, the 

 Spartan General — " When the lion's skin is too short, piece it out 

 with the fox's tail" — or as the adage has been versified by Prior; 



" The Lion's skin too short, you know 

 (As Plutarch's morals finely show) 

 Was lengthened by the Fox's tail, 

 And Art supplies where strength may fail." 



Lord Hungerford married a wealthy heiress, and became owner 

 of great property of the Peverells of Devonshire. He was also a 

 Knight of the Garter, Constable of Windsor Castle, Captain of 

 Cherbourg in France, Lord Steward of the Household, and one of 

 the Executors of King Henry V.'s will. He rebuilt churches in 

 Wiltshire and Somerset, contributed liberally to various religious 

 houses, and founded Chantries, as at Chippenham, Farley Castle, and 

 Salisbury Cathedral, where, by directions left in his last will, he 

 was buried in a Chantry Chapel built by himself, which then stood 

 under the second arch of the nave on the north side, but now 

 stands in the choir near the bishop's throne : known as 



THE IRON CHAPEL. 



By a deed, dated 1st June, a.d. 1429, twenty years before his 

 death, it appears that Lord Hungerford had license from Simon 

 Sydenham, Dean, and the Chapter of Salisbury, to enclose, at his 

 own expense, " between the First Arch (i.e. of the nave) " to the 

 Arch where the Altar of Early Mass is celebrated, all that space 

 lying between the two columns, in length 20^ feet, and in breadth 

 8 feet and one inch. Of which enclosure the outside of the stone 

 and grating is not to exceed the aforesaid admeasurement." And 

 to erect there an Altar in honour of the B. V. Mary, as well as to 

 make a place for his own burial. 



