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LIST OF ALTARS IN SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, AND 



NAMES OF KINGS OF WHOM THERE WERE 



REPRESENTATIONS THERE ABOUT 



THE YEAR 1398. 



By Chr. Wordsworth, M.A., Sub-Dean. 



MS. I. 2, 6, in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is 

 described in Dr. M. R. James's Catalogue, 1904, p. 22, as containing 

 "Miscellanea ... a number of tracts [Sermons, &c] bound 

 together, mostly of cent. xiii. Probably from Chichester. In a 

 kalendar at the end the dedication of Sompting Church [Sussex] 

 occurs. Salisbury documents also occur." 1 



The last-named axeStatuta dominoncmepiscoporumSar.(circal25Q) 

 pp. 172 — 175, which I transcribed some years ago with the kind 

 permission of the college authorities, and collated with the text of 

 Spelman and Wilkins, and of which I hope to say more in another 

 place, if my papers on Salisbury Cathedral Statutes ever see the 

 light. My note on the present occasion concerns the fly-leaf which 

 has been taken by the binder from a record likewise derived from 

 Salisbury ; but, as it was written on a piece of parchment of larger 

 dimensions than the Miscellany (9f x 6£ inches), the writing upon 

 it has been ruthlessly cropped away at the right-hand edge, when 

 it came to be used as a fly-leaf by the binder. 



The record gave two lists connected with the interior of Salisbury 



Cathedral Church at the close of the 14th century: — (1) a list of 



the altars, (2) a list of royal personages whose portraiture in some 



form or other decorated the choir. The right-hand fore-edge of 



the list of altars has been cut away, so that each of the nine long 



lines (i.e., every line of the list exclusive of its comparatively brief 



heading) has been shorn of one or more syllables, or it may be of 



as much as two or three words, which are now lost irrecoverably, 



except so far as in one or two instances the necessary restoration 



of the last word is so nearly inevitable that it can hardly be 



styled " conjectural," or anything short of certain. 



1 Descriptive Catalogue of the Western MSS. in the Library of Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge, Camb. Univ. Press, 1904. See pp. 22—27 for MS. I. 2. 6. 



