98 Hungerford Chapels in Salisbury Cathedral. 



This, then, is a summary of what I have been able to collect 

 relating to this Chapel. The removal of it, as indeed, many other 

 alterations then also made in the Cathedral, gave rise at the time 

 to a very lively controversy, conducted in the journals and peri- 

 odicals of the day by Mr. Carter, the architect, and others. Into 

 this dispute it is now needless to enter. The Chapel is gone; and 

 though it were on some account to be wished (hat it had not gone, 

 but rather that it coidd have been maintained in decency, as a relic 

 of a distinguished and now extinct Wiltshire family, still it is of 

 no use to cry over spilled milk, and therefore instead of indulging 

 in fruitless lamentation, I content myself with this endeavour 

 to gather up the scattered notices of its appearance and history, 

 for the benefit of the Wilts Archaeological Society. 



The following appear to have been the interments of the 

 Hungerford Family at Salisbury, so far as is known : — 



A.D. 



1 — 1449. Walter Lord Hungerford and Heytesbury. Lord High 



Treasurer of England. 

 2 — (1429?) Katherine Peverell, his first wife. 

 3 — 1459. Robert, second Lord Hungerford and Botreaux. 



When the (outside) Chapel was taken away in 1789, the body of this noble- 

 man was discovered about eighteen inches above the level of the floor, in a 

 wooden coffin much decayed. It measured five feet five inches from head to 

 heel, and had been wrapped in a cloth, a very small part of which was to be 

 seen with the cords with which it was tied. The head was reclined to the left 

 shoulder, the hands laid across the middle of the body, and the legs straight. 

 The coffin was very dry, and had not the least smell, and the skeleton very 

 entire, except the right foot, and some of the flesh remained under the upper 

 ribs. The Bishop and Dean were present (Aug. 24), and ordered it to be placed 

 in a box with care, that it might be removed with all possible decency, as soon 

 as a proper place was found, and to be kept in the meantime near the stone 

 figure. (Gough's Sep. Mon.) 



4 — 1477. Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreaux, his widow. 



In opening the grave of this lady, under her tomb in the middle of the (out- 

 side) Chapel, there was discovered a casing of stone filled in with black mould 

 in which part of her skull and a rib were seen. (Gough.) 



5 — 1463. Robert, third Lord Hungerford and Molines (?) 



He was beheaded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after the battle of Hexham. It 

 is said by Dugdale that his body was conveyed to Salisbury for burial, and 

 Gough assigns to him one of the brassless effigies on the floor. But this may 

 have referred to the next member of the family. 



