20 Wiltshire Pardons or Indulgences. 



at the tomb before the altar of B. Mary Magdalen." This beautiful 

 tomb stands at the north side of the S.E. transept, and commemo- 

 rates scenes in the life of G-iles de Bridport, founder of De Vaux 

 College for (Scotist) scholars, cir. 1261, in whose episcopate the 

 west front of the nave and the roof were finished and the completed 

 Church was dedicated, 29th Sept., 1258, by Archbishop Boniface. 

 An indulgence of xiii days was recorded in the partly-obliterated 

 inscription cut on the second buttress from the east end, on the 

 south side of the south wall of the Lady Chapel. A conjectural 

 reading of this inscription is given in our list under the date "area 

 ? 1270," but it refers to the soul of a certain " Angnes," or Agnes, 

 whose name cannot be identified in extant obit lists. 1 



In his Injunctions for Salisbury Diocese in 1538 Bp. Nicholas 

 Shaxton forbade among other tilings offerings to be made to images 

 (No. 14), the use by women of " measures of our Lady " (No. 18), 

 and directed that "all relics (as they be called) " should be sent to 

 him at his house in Bamsbury, or other-where, to be examined. 

 He undertook in due course to return those which he found genuine, 

 "with certain instructions how they ought to be used" (No. 21), 

 and he directed " that the bell called the Pardon, or Ave Bell, 

 which of long time hath been used to be tolled three times after 

 or before Divine Service, be not hereafter in any part of my diocese 

 any more tolled." 2 "That the knolling of the Aves after service, 

 and certain other times, which hath been brought in and begun 

 by the pretence of the Bishop of Bome's pardon, henceforth be 

 left and omitted, lest the people do hereafter trust to have pardon 

 for the saying of their Aves, between the said knelling, as they 

 have done in time past." (lb., ii., p. 42.) " The people " (say the 

 editors) " were accustomed to say Aves when the bells rang for 

 service, and received indulgences for doing so." John XXII. 

 (Pope 1316 — 34) recommended the saying of three Aves when the 



1 Agnes, wife of Nicol Hardyng, and Agnes Barowe, are named in the 

 bedes of a later period. Salisbury Ceremonies (1901), p. 31. 



2 (No. 22.) Visitation Articles and Injunctions, Frere & Kennedy, Alcuin 

 Club, ii., p. 60. This was in accordance with No. 16 of the Second Royal 

 Injunctions (A.D. 1538.) 



