By Chr. Wordsworth, 31. A. 561 



name has been shorn away in the MS., Dr. James may be pardoned 

 for having printed it as "Marie , . . ." The altar of S. Kabherine is 

 mentioned as separate from that of St. Martin, wrongly written 

 "Marci" in the Corpus Oxon MS. 44 (late 14th century), of the 

 Salisbury Custom Book, Use of Sarum, L, p. 114 § 3rd, and both 

 of these altars are there described as situated in the north-east 

 transept. 



8, 9. Altar of St. (Mary) Magdalene and (?) Vinc[ent] (or 

 Nic[holas],), opposite the south door of the choir. There is mention 

 made of St.Mary Magdalene's altar in Sarum Customs( Use of Sarum 

 i., 115) as standing in the south-east transept with an altar of St. 

 Nicholas next to it. I am inclined to think that " hi " is what was 

 written here by the scribe, for beati [Nicholai], — and not " ui," for 

 F ui[ncencii]" 1 The position of St, M. Magdalene's altar with 

 the beautiful monument of Hishop Giles de Bridport, f 13th Dec. 

 1262, to the north of it is generally accepted. 



10 a , 10 b , 10°. Altar of S. Thomas the Martyr, and St. [? Edward], 

 King and Martyr, associated with the Eleven Thousand Virgins : 

 aiear the west door of the choir, i.e., northward of the choir. There can 

 be no reasonable doubt that the altar of St. Thomas of Canterbury 

 was at the northern part of the great north-west transept, which 

 was approached, from the principal entrance of the Close, through 

 the porch of St. Thomas (now removed) by a door blocked up and 

 hidden by Wyatt's removing to it the monument of Bp. Blyth. 

 There was at Salisbury in 1536 a chest "containing relicks of the 

 Eleven Thousand Virgins in four purses, with this Scripture, ' Ex 

 Bono domini Asserii.' " Asser, the chaplain and biographer of K. 

 Alfred, was Bp. of Sherborne c. 895—210. Sal. Proc, p. 161. I 

 have mentioned the existence of an altar and mass of the Eleven 

 Thousand Virgins (companions of St. Ursula of Cologne) as being 



'"urn" was the Provost of King's conjecture. It may, however, be 

 observed, that a separate altar of St. Vincent is mentioned below (No. 16 b 

 in our list), which, though not absolutely conclusive, makes it seem at all 

 events less likely that Vincent should be the name intended at No. 9. Also 

 that our scribe has not (at least in the other instances, remaining) adopted 

 the familiar style of naming any saint without the distinctive prefix of 

 either sanctus or beatus. 

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