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built the church. They were afterwards brought by the citizens 
into the toun where they now are. ! | 
OLD saRuM. [ul. 89. ]| 
The Cite of Old-Saresbyri standing on an hille is distant from 
the New a mile by north-weste, and is in cumpace half a mile and 
more. This thing hath bene auncient and exceeding strong: but 
syns the building of New-Saresbyri it went totally to ruine. 
Sum think that lak of water caussid the inhabitantes to relin- 
quish the place; yet were ther many welles of swete water. 
Sum say, that after that in tyme of civil warres that castles and 
waullid towns were kept, that the castellanes of Old-Saresbyri and 
the chanons could not agree, insomuch that the castellanes upon 
a time prohibited them coming home from Procession and Rogation 
to re-entre the toun. Whereupon the bishop and they consulting 
together, at the last began a chirch on his oun proper soyle; and 
then the people resorted strait to New-Saresbyri and buildid ther : 
and then in continuance were a great number of the houses of 
Old-Saresbyri pulled down and set up at Mew-Saresbyri. 
Osmund Erle of Dorchestre and after Bishop of Saresbyri erectid 
his Cathedrale? Chirch ther (i. e., in Old-Saresbyri) in the west part 
of the town; and also his palace, whereof now no token is but 
only a chapel of our Lady yet standing and mainteynid. 
[a. p. 1092. At Saresbyri the roof of the tower of the cathe- 
dral was entirely thrown down by lightning the day after it had 
been dedicated by Osmund Bishop of Sarum, and Remigius Bishop 
of Lincoln. Jtin. vu. 49]. 
1 Lel. Collectanea, 1. 342, upon the authority of Thomas Eccleston, a Fran- 
cisean. The name of the citizen was first written in Leland’s manuseript 
Pude: but was corrected to Sude, with a mark under the vw. Tanner (from 
Stevens and St. Clare) calls him Pende. ‘The original site was perhaps at Old 
Sarum. 
2“ Cathedral.’ In a dry summer the outlines of the foundation of this 
church may still be perceived. Mr, Hatcher in 1834 made a sketch of it, 
according to which, if correct, it was about 240 feet long. It is engraved in 
Nichols and Bowles’s Lacock, p. 363: andin Hatcher and Benson’s Salisbury, 
p- 49. 
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