22 Wiltshire Pardons or Indulgences. 



to receive it, the "summa totalis" being made up of (1) a total of 

 eight years and forty -one days specially granted for those who visited 

 the Church of Salisbury on the occasion when the said notice was 

 to be given (which the MS. does not specify, as it was well known, 

 doubtless, to the dignitary who used it), and (2) the indulgence " of 

 old time granted" to this Church, viz., eleven years 1 and one 

 hundred and seventy-five days. One of the readers of this Magazine 

 may be able by exercise of his arithmetical powers to divine from 

 the succeeding list (a) how the two sub-totals (1) and (2) were made 

 up, and hence (b) on what occasion, or occasions, the notice was 

 given out in Salisbury Cathedral. 



A LIST of one hundred and sixty INDULGENCES and docu- 

 ments thereto relating, as granted to the Church of Salisbury 

 or other Churches in Wilts, or registered by Bishops of Salisbury 

 about the years 1170—1536. 



cir. 1165—9. 40 days, granted by Thomas [Becket], Abp. of Canter- 

 bury, to those who visit the relics at St. Peter's, Heytesbury, on the 

 Invention of the Cross. "Pauperibus ecclesiisP Osmund Register, i., 343. 



cir. 1165 — 9. 20 days, granted by N[igel], Bp. of Ely, to those who visit 

 St. Peter's, Heytesbury, and give their alms, on the feast of the Inven- 

 tion of the Cross. " Pauperibus ecclesiis." Osmund Register, i., 344. 



cir. 1200. Indulgences, granted by Pope Innocent III. for saying Three 

 Prayers of the Passion : Coll. "D. J. C, Fill Dei vivi qui pro redemp- 

 tion " ; Secret u Auxilientur" ; and Postcom. " Domine Deus de Deo." 

 Missale Sarum, p. 927.* 



[1225]. 30 days granted by Stephen [Langton], Cardinal of H. Roman 



Church, Abp, of Canterbury, " ad fabricam B. Marie Sar. de.nouo con- 



struendam." (marked " 1."). Hist. M$$. Report, 8vo. i. (1901) p. 377. 



The Abp. preached on 29 Sept., 1225, and celebrated service in the 



nova basilica, when the LadyChapel was built. [S. l.]. s 



1 I have overlooked the mistake of " vj anni " (where I ought to have given 

 " xj ") in my Salisbury Ceremonies and Processions, p. 41, line 11. On the 

 subject of Indulgences I may refer to Methuen's Antiquary's Books (Old 

 .English Service Books, pp. 286 — 293 (1904, (fee.,) and to my paper on York- 

 shire Pardons and Indulgences ; Yorks. Archceol. Soc. Transactions, xvi., 369 

 —423 (1901). 



2 The entries marked " S " in the present list belong to a series of 58 

 original (MS.) pardons or indulgences, some with seals attached, preserved 

 in the Muniment Room of Salisbury Cathedral (Press IV.), which Chr. W. 

 was allowed to examine and arrange a few years ago. Some of these were 

 previously described by Mr. Reginald L. Poole in Hist. MSS. Report, 8vo., 

 (various) i., pp. 377—379, issued in 1901. The "old numbers" which are 

 also given in our list, with marks of quotation, may have some interest for 

 future research. 



