560 List of Altars in Salisbury Cathedral. 



but that they were close together. 1 But the study of this frag- 

 mentary list in the Emmanuel Coll. MS. has only confirmed me ill 

 my opinion that the tradition at Salisbury in the 17th and 18th 

 centuries does not deserve the credit which Dr. John Milner, F.S.A I 

 the eminent Bishop of Castabala in partibus infidelium, and con- 

 troversialist, gave to it in 1811. The altar of St. Peter and the 

 Apostles was on the site now occupied by the Gorges monument, 

 and I gather that the Emmanuel MS. intends to identify that of St. 

 John the Evangelist with it; for it makes no mention of St. Peter's 

 altar. The lists of Altarists bear out the same conclusion. 2 



5. The altar of St. Stephen, on the south, dedicated in 1225, 

 the site is now occupied by the great Somerset, Hereford, or Seymour 

 monumental structure erected about 1621. 



6, 7. Altar of St. Martin and St. Katherine, opposite the north 

 door of the choir. These were in the chapel in the north-eastern 

 transept known as the Morning Chapel, which has been furnished 

 in memory of Bishop Webb. As the termination of St. Martin's 



1 See Salisb. Processions, p. 221. The statement in MS. Fasti relates to 

 the burial-place of Bp. W. of York. Mr. A. R. Maiden has cited the same [ 

 tradition in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxvii., p. 344. 



2 The Altarists were usually the elder choristers whose voices had changed. 

 The duty of each was to prepare one of the altars in the cathedral for mass, I 

 sometimes they were required to ring the bell under the sacrist's direction ;i 

 to serve the priest vicar, or other chaplain responsible for singing mass atf 

 his altar, or in case of his neglect to report the omission to the Clerk of! 

 the Fabrick. There were outside and inside altarists — "extrinseci" and) 

 " intrinseci." I presume that the latter served altars in the Lady Chapel 

 or in the aisles and transepts of the eastern part of the cathedral, while! 

 the extrinseci had duties in the nave, or (as the Altarist of St. Margaret's 

 chapel was one) in the western transepts. The intrinseci (called " interiores"i 

 in 1451, and " antiqui " in 1445) were usually six in number, and were): 

 attached to the altars of SS. Martin, Katherine, John the Evangelist (andi 

 all Apostles), St. Lawrence, and B. Mary the Virgin (Salve), and the morn- 

 ing (or morrow mass) altar. They helped serve the Loving Cup on Maundyj 

 Thursday. After the Reformation six Altarists were still appointed from' 

 the elder choristers, and, during the reign of King Charles I., from the Layj 

 Vicars. They received a small annual payment "pro le " (in connexion; 

 with Sapientia, &c). About 1750 some of the Altarists' places were 

 filled by Priest Vicars, but in the Sarum Almanac, cir. 1864 — 75, only one 

 Altarist is named. Mr. Holmys' Book in sub-commoner's account, cir.\ 

 1526 — 58, mentions a payment of 6d. each to nine Altarists and of Id. eacl 

 to six Altarists of paradyse (pp. 11, 22), probably for the Great Oes. 



