By J. J. Hammond. 369 



of New Sarum, esquire, and Henry Dench, of New Sarum, 

 gentleman. 



A lease, dated 24th August, 1776, by John Hume, Bishop of 

 Sarum, for the- lives of William Hussey, Henry Dench, and 

 Samuel Wyatt. 



A lease, dated 28th March, 1796, by John Douglas, Bishop of 

 Sarum, for the lives of William Hussey, Henry Dench, and 

 George Brown. 



A lease, dated 18th November, 1818, by John Fisher, Bishop 

 of Sarum, for the lives of George Brown, John Atkinson (then 

 Mayor), and Charles William Everett. This lease expired on 

 the death of Mr. C. W. Everett in 1863. 



Erom that date, until the premises ceased to be used as a work- 

 house in 1879, the Bishop's moiety was, no doubt, rented upon 

 similar terms; but at some period, between 1818 and then, it had 

 passed, with the rest of the Episcopal Estates to the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners, and was purchased from them by Archdeacon 

 Sanctuary, who also purchased the moiety belonging to the Cor- 

 poration, when the Church House was being formed, and his 

 representatives conveyed the whole property to the Salisbury 

 Diocesan Board of Finance. 



Of the lives, upon which the Bishop's moiety was held at 

 different times, William Hyde and John Thistlethwayte are the 

 only names of whom much is known, except, of course, William 

 Hussey, George Brown, and C. W. Everett, whose representatives 

 still survive amongst ns. William Hyde, the son of Humfrey 

 Hyde, of Kingston Lisle, Berks, esquire, was of a different family 

 to the family of that name, to whom there are many memorials 

 in the Cathedral, and to which Edward Earl of Clarendon belonged. 

 The latter family came from Cheshire, and bore arms, azure a 

 chevron between three fusils or. The Hydes, of Kingston Lisle, 

 bear arms, gules two chevronels argent, and are an ancient Berkshire 

 family, one of them being Sheriff for Berks and Oxon in the reign 

 of Edward VI. 1 



1 Fuller's Worthies, and Collier's Historical Dictionary, Vol. II., 1688. 



