400 The Trinity Hospital, Salisbury. 



New Sarura, 2nd March, in the 9th year of his reign (1612), 

 recites that in the City of New Sarum there was a certain 

 hospital with divers lands and tenements thereto belonging, 

 commonly called the Hospital or House of the Holy Trinity, 

 which was in the governance and disposition of the mayor of 

 the said city, being master, guardian or governor of the said 

 hospital ; and that for the better support of the poor living in 

 the said hospital, divers lands and tenements had been thereto- 

 fore granted to the use thereof, by divers names, and that 

 ambiguities had arisen with respect to the name of the said 

 hospital ; and by the said charter the said hospital is founded 

 of one master and twelve poor men, who were then in the said 

 hospital, and of the like number from time to time thereafter ta 

 be elected and appointed by the aforesaid mayor and commonalty. 

 The charter afterwards ordains that the Mayor and Corpor- 

 ation of Sarum and their successors should be masters of 

 the said hospital ; and the poor of the said hospital are thereby 

 incorporated by the name of The Master and Poor of the 

 Hospital of the Holy Trinity, in the city of New Sarum. That the 

 corporation should have a common seal, and that they and their 

 successors should have power to sue and be sued, and to enjoy, 

 grant, and demise all and singular their lands, goods, chattels, and 

 rights under the said common seal, and all goods and chattels, 

 lands, tenements and hereditaments theretofore belonging to 

 the said hospital are thereby conveyed to the master and poor 

 of the said hospital, their heirs and successors, with the intention 

 and under the confidence that they and their successors, out of the 

 said lands and tenements should allow to every poor person of the 

 said hospital such relief as in times past was wont to be allowed; 

 and the said charter provides that the poor of the hospital should 

 be elected, constituted, treated, and in all things governed, by the 

 said Mayor and Corporation, according to the law and statutes 

 theretofore made, or thereafter by the said Mayor and Corporation 

 to be made according to their sound discretion. 



Since the letters patent of James I. this charity has been aug- 

 mented by the following donations: — 



