Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 159 
Ther be but two paroche chirches in the Cyte of Saresbyri, 
whereof the one ys by the Market-place as in the hart of the toun, 
and is dedicate to St. Thomas. 
The other is of S. Hdmunde,' and is a Collegiate Chirch of the 
foundation of De la Wyle, Bishop of Saresbyry. He erected the 
college of St. Edmund. Nicolaus de St. Quintino was first Provost 
of 8. Edmunde’s, and lyith buried there. [1v. 30]. St. Hdmunde’s 
Church at the north west ende of the toun hard by the toun dich. 
A charter of Hen. III. for a fair at St. Edmunde’s. [1v. 177]. 
This diche was made of the tounes men as such tyme as Simon,? 
Bishop of Suaresbyri, gave licence to the burgeses to strengthen the 
toun with an embattled waulle. 
This diche was thoroughly caste for the defence of the toun, so 
far as it was not sufficiently defendid by the mayn streame of 
Avon. But the waulle was never begon; yet, as I remembre, I 
saw one stone gate or 2 in the toun.? 
Harnham Bridge* was a village long afore the erection of New 
Saresbyri; and there was a church of S. Martine longging to it. 
There standith now of the remain of the old chirch of 8. 
Martin, a barne®> in a very low medow on the north side of S. 
1 “St, Edmund’s.” Of Bishop Wyle’s Church not a stone is left. It fell 
down June 1653, and was then entirely rebuilt. The seal of St. Edmund’s 
College is engraved in Leland’s Collect. v1. 283. On it are 2 shields—1, Three 
suns[Sunning. Query ; any reference to the place in Berks so called?] and 2, 
a cheyron between 3 towers. (Wyle). The site of the college was purchased. 
in 1660 by the Wyndhams, to whom it now belongs. 
Simon of Ghent, died 1315. 
3 Two gates in the Close. 
4“Warnham Bridge.” In a paragraph farther on, he mentions this again, 
as the “‘ hamlet or village of Harnham.” The burial ground of an Anglo- 
Saxon community, prior to their conversion to Christianity, discovered in ‘‘ The 
Low Field” (the field of ¢wmul’) at Harnham Hill, not far from this place, 
Noy. 1853, has just been described by Mr. J. Y. Akerman, in the “‘ Archwologia.” 
5 “Barn.” The desecrated barn pointed out to Leland as the remains of old 
St. Martin’s Church has caused some perplexity to the local antiquaries. Hall 
(Pict. Memor. of Sal., plate 111., and notes at end of vol.) is of opinion that 
the residence of the master of St. Nicholas’s Hospital (1834) was the barn in 
question : but Leland appears to have been misinformed in his account of the 
Church. 
