176 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



a Church of St. Martin and a Hospital of St. Nicholas. St. Martin's 

 Church belonged to Harnham. The old Hospital of St. Nicholas stood 

 nearly in its present site by the ford over the River Avon through which 

 the road from the south passed." Afterwards the river was artificially 

 divided into two channels just opposite the hospital, a double stone bridge 

 was built by Bishop Robert Bingham and the two islands called " St. 

 John's Isle" and "Earldom Island" were formed, and the first of 

 these became, in 1244 or earlier, the. site of an offshoot of the hospital, 

 a chapel where wayfarers might attend an early mass. " It appears 

 that (at least in 1244 and for some time subsequently) whilst some of 

 the chaplains served at St. John Baptist's Chapel on the Isle, the master 

 or warden had also the care of repairing the bridge and causeway, as 

 was often the case with hermit chaplains in the 15th century in other 

 places." 



The second half of the preface, pp. xli. — lxxxviii., is occupied with an 

 illustrated notice of the Hospital by the Rev. G. H. Moberly, reprinted 

 with revisions) from Wilts Arch. Mag., xxv., 119 — 164. 



Then follows the ancient Form of Reception of a brother into the 

 hospital with the " ordo recipiendi aliquem amicum in fratrem ad par- 

 ticipacionem oracionum et suffragiorum," i.e., the form of admitting a 

 benefactor or other friend of the hospital into spiritual confraternity and 

 participation in the devotions and intercessions of the community without 

 sharing the emoluments of the hospital. 



The statutes of Bishop Richard Beauchamp ; seven documents relating 

 to the Box, Wilsford, and Manningford Bohune Estates, 1227—1268 ; 

 eleven charters relating to Broad Hinton, 1253 — 1295 ; four relating to 

 Fisherton Aucher, or Anger, 1214 — 1262 ; twenty two relating to 

 East and West Harnham, 1244—1340; a terrier of 1393 for East 

 Harnham, and one for both Harnhams, of 1438; twelve documents 

 dealing with property in Salisbury, 1261 — 1402 ; forty-six relating 

 to Gerardeston (Gurston manor, in Broad Chalk), 1254 — 1289, with 

 the later perambulation of the Forest of Pansett, near Clarendon — 

 and a few other deeds from the Record Office, connected with property 

 in Bentley Wood, Turnworth and Sturminster Marshall (Dorset), &c, 

 all given in full, fill more than half the volume. In addition there are 

 lists of the priors, guardians, wardens or masters of St. Nicholas ; of the 

 stewards of St. Nicholas ; of the chaplains of St. Nicholas, and of the 

 brethren and sisters from 1501 — 1713, and from 1790 to the present time; 

 chantry certificates ; the letters patent of 1610 ; notes on the master's right 

 to tithe swans, and on the seals of the hospital ; ' visitation articles, 

 1662 — 1677 ; extracts from Mr. Edward Hickman's MS. on the buildings; 

 the cartulary of the college of St. Nicholas de Valle Scholarium (in the 

 British Museum) ; lists of muniments ; the Barrington Trust ; forms of 

 admission of a brother or sister, and special prayers. 



The whole of this mass of varied information is admirably printed 

 and edited and annotated with the utmost care— and at the end an ex- 

 cellent index is given in which you may find every name mentioned in 

 the preceding pages. 



