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NOTES ON AUDLEY HOUSE, SALISBURY. 

 By J. J. Hammond. 



(Reprinted from the " Salisbury and Winchester Journal" Feb. 6th, 1909-/ 



This house in Crane Street, Salisbury, now known as the Church 

 House — T do not refer to the house No. 95, Crane Street, now 

 called Audley House, which was never part of the property — j 

 derives its name from the fact that, for about fifteen months, i.e. r \ 

 from 16th August, 1630, till November, 1631, it was the property 

 of Mervin Lord Audley and Earl of Castlehaven. 



Among the many able and interesting articles contributed to, 

 the Salisbitry and Winchester Journal by the late Mr. H. J. F„ 

 Swayne, was one on Audley House, at the time when it was being 

 adapted to its present use. Mr. Swayne dealt chiefly with its 

 architectural features, leaning, as he stated, upon Hatcher for his 

 facts, and expressing the opinion, that more information might be 

 ascertained from the deeds. The authors of Hatcher and Benson's 

 Old and New Sarum had not the advantage of seeing the deeds, 

 and probably only had notes made by Mi - . Benson from the ledger 

 books of the Corporation, for they are fragmentary and incomplete. 1 

 The list of Mayors given in Hatcher & Benson requires correction 

 both in regard to dates and names. Having lately been permitted 

 to peruse all the deeds, I venture to add the information gleaned 

 from them. Although no earlier documentary evidence is now 

 forthcoming, it is evident that one moiety of this property belonged 

 to the Bishop, and one moiety to the Mayor and Corporation, when 

 Mervin Earl of Castlehaven acquired it in 1630. 



The only early reference to it known to Mr. Swayne and men- 

 tioned in Hatcher and Benson, was an entry, in 1455 amongst the 

 Bishop's quit rents, when Sir John Lisle, Knight, paid 4|r7. in re- 

 spect of a tenement called The Crane, and in respect of a tenement 



1 Hatcher and Benson, pp. 384 and 597. 



