By Rev. C. F. R. Palmer. 



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Salisbury. 



It was about the end of the year 1280 that the friar-preachers 

 established themselves in Fisherton- Anger, in the west suburb of 

 Salisbuiy, divided from the city by the river Avon, and communi- 

 cating with it by means of Fisherton Bridge. Leland says, " In 

 this Fisschertoun, now a Suburbe to New-Saresbyri, was sins the 

 Erection of the New Toun, an House of Blake Freres buildid not 

 far from Fisherton Bridge." 1 Speed sets down Edward I. and F« 

 Robert de Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury, as founders of 

 this new house, 2 whilst Godwin ascribes it wholly to the latter. 8 

 Edward I. gave the land for the site, and his queen, Eleanor of 

 Castile, was a great benefactress. Out of affection for the order to 

 which he had belonged, F. Robert de Kilwardby might have en- 

 couraged his brethren in their enterprise, and given them means to 

 carry it out ; but being raised to the rank of a cardinal in 1278, he 

 quitted England towards the end of the summer of that year, long 

 before the friars it seems settled at Fisherton, and he was certainly 

 dead before they began to build. 



Edward I. bought some lands of William Dun, and for the weal 

 of his soul and the souls of his ancestors and heirs, granted and 

 confirmed them, May 12th, 1281, " Fratribus Predicatoribus apud 

 Fisherton juxta Sar' commorantibus,'" to be held in free, pure, and 

 perpetual almoign " ad inhabitandum ibidem, prout sibi magis 

 viderit expedire/'' These lands had been acquired by William Dun 

 as follows : a tenement granted by Geoffrey le Noton, Henry Dun, 

 and Thomas le Fraunceys ; a tenement quitclaimed by Thomas le 

 Fraunceys, of Fisherton, fisherman ; a meadow given by Thomas de 

 Ripton; a parcel of meadow quitclaimed by Nicholas de St. Quintin; 

 a tenement with meadow and curtilage given by Elias de Fisserton, 

 fisherman ; a meadow by the same Nicholas ; and a tenement by 

 William Florentyn. Dun's deed of grant to the king was delivered 



1 Leland's Itin. (2nd edit.), vol. iii., p. 75. 

 2 History of Great Britaine : catalogue of Religious Houses. 

 3 Godwin, p. 97. 



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