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THE TRINITY HOSPITAL, SALISBURY, 

 By T. H. Baker. 



The Hospital of the Holy Trinity is, next to that of St. Nicholas, 

 the oldest charitable institution in the city. Hatcher, in his 

 History of Old and Neiv Sarum, gives its origin in the following 

 words : — " The Trinity Hospital, or Alms House, owed its origin to 

 Agnes Bottenham, 1 who appears to have been living about the 

 middle of the fourteenth century. It was erected on the spot 

 which had been previously occupied by a common brothel. Her 

 benefactions, as mentioned in subsequent deeds, afforded a perpetual 

 maintenance to twelve poor persons, and also hospitality nightly to 

 twelve poor strangers, if so many should claim an asylum, with 

 liberty to tarry three days and nights, if any desired such an in- 

 dulgence. Those who fell sick were to receive accommodation and 

 attendance till restored to health. To the establishment was 

 attached an endowment for a chaplain to celebrate the divine 

 offices. The paupers permanently resident, as well as the tem- 

 porary guests, were four times daily to repeat the Psalter of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 



1 Agnes Bottenham was widow of John Bottenham. This is evident from 

 a conveyance of a tenement which is still existing in the municipal strong 

 room in the Domesday book of Salisbury, in which are recorded all the 

 transfers of property within the city. 



Nouerint vniuersi me Johannem Chaundeler, sen r . de Noua Sarum 

 execut r . testamenti Agnet s . que fuit vxor Johannis de Bottenham nuper 

 ciuis Ciuitatis Noue Sar vendidisse, concessisse remississe, relaxisse & 

 omninopro me, heredibz &executoribz meis imperpetuumquietclamasse& 

 hoc scripto meo confirmasse Johanni Wychford, heredibz & assignatis I 

 suis totum jus meum & clameum que virtute testamenti predictse Agnetis | 

 vel aliquo alio jure seu titulo quocunque habeo, habui seu quovis modo ; 

 habere potero in futuro in illis viginti solidis annui redditus provenerit de ; 

 toto illo tenemento cum pertinentijs predicto Johanni "Wychford quod i 

 situm est in Ciuitate predicta in Castelstret inter tenementum nuper i 

 Gilberti St'koks ex parte australi & tenementum nuper Johannis Benet 

 ex parte boriali. 



A.D. 1399. 1 Hen. IV. 



3 Fifty aves and fifty paternosters. 



