368 Notes on Audley House, Salisbury. 



The Corporation passed a resolution thanking the Bishop for 

 his gift, and also a resolution thanking Mr. Collis for selling 

 his moiety for the same sum as it had cost him. 1 The citizens con- 

 tributed to the cost of adapting the buildings to a workhouse ; the 

 amounts subscribed are recorded in the Ledger Book. 



In 1673, John Beade being the only surviving life, and Bishop 

 Seth Ward desiring to grant a new lease for three lives, Bishop 

 Davenant's lease was surrendered, and a new lease, dated 31st 

 September, 1673, granted to the Mayor and Commonalty, for the 

 lives of John Thistlethwayte, son of Beregrine Thistlethwayte, of 

 New Sarum, gentleman ; William Greene, son of Maurice Greene, 

 of New Sarum, gentleman; and Symon Williams, son of Thomas 

 Williams, of New Sarum, gentleman. A plan, showing the Bishop's 

 moiety and the Earl of Castlehaven's moiety, is annexed to this 

 lease. Apparently in acknowledgment of this act of generosity on 

 the Bishop's part, his portrait was painted for the Corporation by 

 John Greenhill, " Mr. John Briaulx, the Steward of the Workhouse, 

 to pay for the drawing thereof." 2 The old Bridewell in St. Thomas' 

 Churchyard was then let out on lease, being in too dilapidated a 

 condition to be repaired and used as a Bridewell. 



In 1728, considerable alterations and additions were made to the 

 Workhouse, that part of the present building now occupied by the 

 members of the St. Andrew's Mission Society being added to it. 

 A plan showing these alterations has lately been given to the 

 Church House. 



To follow in detail all the various leases given to the Mayor and 

 Commonalty from this date, would be a monotonous repetition. I 

 will, therefore, just shortly mention them : — 



A lease, dated 15th December, 1729, by Benjamin Hoadley, 



Bishop of Sarum,for the lives of Maurice Green e.Raulin Hillman, 



of New Sarum, apothecary, and John Davies, of New Sarum, 



woollen draper. 



A lease, dated 16th October, 1758, by John Thomas (the first), 



Bishop of Sarum, for the lives of John Davies, William Hussey, 



1 Ledger III., folio 400. 

 - Ledger III., fol. 199. 



