172 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
versarie of Giles their founder at the paroch chirch of Britport 
wher he was born.! 
Richard Poure, Bp. of Sarisbyri and first erector of the cathedral 
chirch of Mew-Saresbyri, founded the hospitale of S. Wicolas? hard 
by Harnham Bridge, instituting a master, viij pore wimen, and 4 
pore men in it, endowing the house with lands. On the southside 
of this hospitale is a chapelle of S...... standing in an isle. 
3[ And on the north side of this hospitale is an old barne, wher 
in tymes past was a paroch chirch of S. Martine. 
The cause of the translation was bycause it stood exceeding low 
‘and cold, and the river at rages cam into it. 
This church of S. Martine and the hammelet or village of 
Harnham stood or ever any part of New Saresbyri was builded. | 
The Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Saresbyri.4 [vu 10]. 
1 In 1238 upon an interdict to the university of Oxford by Otho the Pope’s 
legate, some of the scholars withdrew thence and settled here. In 1260 Bishop 
Bridport established a perpetual foundation for one custos, 2 chaplains, and 20 
‘* poor respectable studious scholars.” Some of them continued to have pensions 
so late as A.D. 1555, There is a view of the building in Hall’s Pict. Mem. of 
Salisbury, plate xvm. In Aubrey’s time there was very little of it left. 
‘‘ Without the Close of Salisbury as one comes to the toun from Harnham 
Bridge, opposite the hospital is a hop yard with a fair high stone wall about it ; 
and the ruins of an old pidgeon-house. I doe remember 1642 (and since) more 
ruines there. This was Collegium de Valle Scholarum (College de Vaux). It 
took its name from Vaux a family. Here was likewise a Magister Scholarum : 
and it was in the nature of an university. It was never an endowed college. 
[From Seth Ward Bp. of Sarum).” [N. Hist. of Wilts, 95]. This statement 
as to a non-endowment must be incorrect. The house had considerable estates, 
which are enumerated in the Valor Eccles. Wilts, p. 89. Neither was the name, 
Vaux, derived from a family; but is only an English corruption of ‘“ Vallis 
Scholz.” The building is now entirely destroyed. ‘‘Jacobusde Valle Scholarium” 
is mentioned as an author in Harl. MSS. 3930. 
2 See small woodcut, No. 23. Hall. 
3 Thesubstance of the three following sentences has been already given: see p.159. 
4 Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham. ‘ The first to raise Richard (III) to 
the throne, the last to feel his tyranny ;” was executed in 1483 on a Sunday 
morning, in the court yard of the Blue Boar Inn which stood in the Market- 
place [see Hall], and was buried at the Grey Friars in Salisbury. There is a 
monument to him in the neighbouring church of Britford. The celebrated line 
‘© Off with his head; so much for Buckingham,” pronounced with such effect 
by our stage Richards, is not in Shakspeare, and is believed to have been one of 
Colley Cibber’s innovations. 
