526 Wiltshire Chantries and the supply of Clergy in olden days. 



with it. The earl, his father, by his will, made at Mid-Lent, 1225, 

 had left 200 marcs to the new Cathedral. Whether his widow, 

 Ela, made special provision herself for prayers and masses at 

 Salisbury before she founded Lacoclc Abbey and Hinton Charter- 

 house, in 1232, or whether she assigned the duty to their sons, I 

 cannot tell. 



Ealph of York (de Eboraco), Chancellor of. Sarum, died in this 

 episcopate, 14th Jan., 1309. There were, moreover, several thir- 

 teenth century worthies who were commemorated by chantries in 

 the Cathedral Church. Such were : — 



cir. 1245. Herbert Bedwynde, d. 4th Sept. ; at St. Martin's altar. 

 Herbert, preb. of Bedwyn, appears as a benefactor 

 at (Old) Sarum in 1179. 

 1256. William de Eboraco, Bp., d. 31st Jan. His chantry 



was founded or incorporated in 1326 at the Altar 

 of the Apostles. 1 

 1257-8. Bob. de Hertford, alias Woodford Dean, d. 9 Feb. ; at 



St. Andrew's Altar. 

 1262. Giles de Bridport, Bp., d. 13 Dec. ; in St. Mary Magda- 



lene's Chapel. 

 1267. Bob. de Karevill, Treasurer of Sarum, d. 2 Sept. ; 



opposite Salve Chapel, at the Altar of Belies. 

 1270. Cardinal Jordan (Conti), founded the Altar of St. 



Lawrence, by bequest, as Mr. Maiden has dis- 

 covered. 

 1286. Walter Scamel, Bp., d. 20 (or 25) Aug.; at St. 



Katherine's Altar. 

 1291. William Corner, Bp., d. 10 (or 14) May ; at the Altar 



of St. Laurence. 

 Others might be identified, and the list continued for later cen- 

 turies from information given in the "Index to the Sarum Bead- 

 Boll and Obit-Kalendar," in my Salisbury Ceremonies and Processions 

 (8vo, Camb., 1901), pp. 342 — 50, and from other sources. 



A Chantry or Chauntry (late Latin Cantaria) has been denned 



1 A diagram, showing sites of altars, faces p. 72 of Salisbury Ceremonies. 

 Cf. p. 214, Ibid. 



