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2. Altar of B. V. Mary in the vestry. The original sacristy, 

 vestry, and treasury at Salisbury was, I suppose, the small rect- 

 angular chamber at the end of the south-east transept, which became 

 a passage-room when the octagonal treasury, or canon's vestry, with 

 the muniment room above it, was added to the original building 

 somewhat later in the 13th century. The original vestry now 

 serves as the lay-vicars' robing-room. The vestry-altar may have 

 been removed into the lower treasury 1 on the erection of the latter. 

 Salisbury Processions, pp. 289, 290 ; cf. J. W. Clark, Archit. Hist, 

 of Cambridge, 1886, iii., pp. 482 — 3. Holy water was blessed 

 f privatim" on Maundy Thursday before the altar " in vestibulo," 

 according to printed Processionals of Salisbury use, so we may say 

 without hesitation that an altar in the vestry existed, and we have 

 now learnt what was its dedication. 



3. In the chapel of B. Mary (i.e., "The Lady Chapel," as it is 

 now commonly called) . The words cut away were, presumably, 

 qim dicitur Sahce, unum altare S. Trinitatis, or unum altare omnium 

 Sanctorum (as in Sarum Customs — Frere, Use of Sarum, i,, 115). 

 The " Salve " altar of the Ever Blessed Trinity was dedicated in 

 1225, and Bishop Kichard Poore at once instituted the daily mass 

 " Salve, sancta parens." Missale Sar., col. 779.* 



4. Altar of St. John Evangelist on the north side of the Lady 

 Chapel. This was dedicated in 1225 as the "altar of St. Peter 

 and All Apostles." It was perhaps used on each apostle's festival, 

 and it may have come soon to be known by the name of St. John, 

 on account of the procession to it taking place in Christmas week. 

 However, the MS. Fasti, cited in Salisbury Proc, p, 211, shows 

 "that in the 18th century it was supposed at Salisbury that there 

 had been an altar of St. John distinct from the "Apostles' altar," 



1 In a document dated 5th May, 1451, cited in Salisbury Processions and 

 Ceremonies, 1901, p. 127, an " altar in the treasury" (thesav,raria)i& mentioned 

 as having carpet stretched from the Bishop's Throne to it on occasion of his 

 enthronization. The altar of All Hallows is mentioned in the inventory of 

 Abraham de "Winton, Treasurer, cir. 1214 — 1222, next after the altar of St. 

 Peter and immediately before that of St. Stephen (Salisb. Pros. pp. 180, 192). 

 An altar with the same title is mentioned in the margin of the MS. Procession 

 Book at Salisbury, ubi supra pp. 76, 200, 209, 287, in one entry written after 

 1445. 



