380 The Trinity Hospital, Salisbury. 



the purpose. The permanent paupers in addition to the Psalter 

 of the Virgin originally prescribed, are to repeat the said Psalter 

 once more daily, for all benefactors, and all the brethren and sisters 

 of the said hospital. 



As an inducement to benefactors, the spiritual benefits to which 

 they were entitled are thus enumerated : — " The sum of the in- 

 dulgences, granted by different bishops, amounts to three years, 

 three times forty, and six hundred days ; the sum of the masses, 

 mattins, hours, and offices of the dead, is two thousand, one hundred 

 and ninety, yearly, besides those masses, mattins, and other divine 

 offices, which are said by others resorting to the hospital, the 

 number of which is known to God alone. The sum of the Psalters 

 of the eighteen poor persons, said there daily, amounts to twenty- 

 six thousand two hundred and eighty, exclusive of those of poor 

 persons who flock thither, which are reserved to be numbered by 

 divine wisdom." 



From this it is evident that a chapel formed part of the original 

 foundation. There is no record in existence of the architectural 

 features of this building, doubtless it was demolished in 1702 — 4 

 when the present structure was erected. That it was elaborately 

 equipped with all the accessories essential for carrying out the 

 ritual of the Church at the period is shown by two inventories 

 which still exist in the municipal strong room. The earlier, 

 bearing the date 1418, is as follows: — 



Hec indentura facta apud Nouarn Saruin die Martis in vigilia sancti 

 Thome apostoli Anno regni Eegis Henrici quinti post conquestuni sexto. 

 Inter Robertum Puynant niaiorem Ciuitatis Noue Sarurn ac magistruin & 

 Custodern domus siue hospitalis sancte Trinitatis vocate Ahneshous in 

 predicta Ciuitate ex vna parte & Willelmum Panyter subcustodem eiusdem 

 maioris ibidem substitutum & impositum ex parte altera testatur quod 

 predictus maior ac magister & custos commisit & liberauit prefato 

 Willelmo subcustodi & substituto suo bona & catalla dicte domui 

 siue hospitali pertinentia bene & fideliter conseruanda & gubernanda ad 

 opus languentium hospitalis predicti & eisdern ministranda & tandem 

 eidein inaiori & magistro vel successoribus suis maioribus & custodibus 

 dicti hospitalis cum ipse subcustos ab officio suo ibidem amotus fuerit 

 sursum reddenda & liberanda per rationabilem compotum tarn de eisdeni 

 bonis quam de redditibus & alijs proficuis domui predicte interim con- 

 trauentibus & prouenientibus, viz : — 



