570 List of Kings and Queens in Salisbury Cathedral. 



in the reign of Edward III. Mr. "Wickenden considered that the 

 series in Lincoln Minster, when it was complete, represented the 

 line of Kings of England from the Conquest down to Edward III. 1 

 These would make an even number (ten), if the series began with 

 William Eufus, in whose time and under whose charter Lincoln 

 (like York and Sarum) was founded ; or if, commencing with the 

 Conquest, the reigning monarch's effigy was not attempted, or was 

 reserved for some place of particular distinction in connexion with 

 a chantry or otherwise. 



As Treasurer Welbourne died in 1380 or 1381, and as he is 

 spoken of as having originated the stall-work at Lincoln ("inceptor 

 et consultor inceptionis facture stallorum novorum in ecclesia 

 cathedrali Lincolniensi," ubi supra p. 180) " at a time of great 

 political and artistic activity," as Wickenden observes (ib., p. 77), 

 it may be suggested that Salisbury in like manner decorated the 

 choir with representations of royal personages. Only, this appears 

 to have been done some thirty years later than it was done at 

 Lincoln, and in all probability some different medium was em- 

 ployed at Salisbury for executing these later designs. The fabric 

 accounts preserved among the chapter muniments are said by Dr. 

 K. L. Poole to run back to the fifteenth century, so presumably 

 there is no record of this late fourteenth century work among the 

 fabric-rolls at Salisbury. The earliest of the Communars' accounts 

 (he adds) belongs to 1375, and there are Chapter Acts as early 

 as 1320 — 26, 1329, and onwards. It seems possible that in these 

 there may be some clue found to the history of these representations 

 of royal personages. As John of Gaunt and Henry, Earl of Derby 

 (afterwards King Henry IV.), were admitted into the Fraternity 

 of the Church of Salisbury in 1389 (Dunham Register, fo. 117), — 

 as Henry, Prince of Wales, was in 1409, — it seems just possible 

 that Bolingbroke may have given, or occasioned, this decoration of 

 the choir with the names, and (presumably) the effigies of twenty 



1 The Choir Stalls of Lincoln Cathedral, by Preb. J. Fred. Wickenden. 

 Lincoln Diocesan Archit. Soc. Trans., in Associated Architectural Societies' 

 Reports, vol. xv., part ii. (1880), pp. 179—197. 



