Bickard Poore, 1217—1229. 



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and erected a temporary wooden Chapel/ in which, on the Trinity 

 Sunday of that year, he celebrated divine service. Meanwhile he 

 again called his Chapter together — for though summoned I presume 

 by the Dean it is expressly stated that it was in pursuance of 

 "the mandate of the Bishop citing all the Canons " — on the Feast 

 of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (August 15th), and then, 

 in addition to certain resolutions concerning building houses of 

 residence;- it was determined that the translation of the cathedral 

 should take place on the Feast of All Saints (November 1st), then 

 next following; and further that sundry of the Canons should go 

 as " preachers/ 7 or collectors of alms, in behalf of the new cathedral, 

 to various dioceses. William de Wanda the Precentor went to the 

 diocese of London ; Hugh de Garherst to that of Winchester ; 

 William de Wilton to Exeter; Luke, described as the King's 

 Treasurer (Thesaararius Regis), to Chichester; Robert, " The Scot/' 

 fittingly enough to Scotland. 3 



1 A.D. 1219.—" Inchoata fuit nova capella lignea apud Novum Sarum in hono- 

 runi Beate Marise Virginis." Reg. Osmund. Under the same year we have an 

 entry also relating to Richard de Clifford, who on his decease left to the Church 

 of Sarum, " unum cipheum aureum et cochlearium unum." Wilkins' Concil, 

 i., 555. 



2 A decree was made that " the heirs of the first builders of houses of residence, 

 as well Vicars as Canons, should receive two parts of the value of what should be 

 built, the third part being yielded for the land ; the collation and appointment to 

 the houses, after the first sale of the vacant houses, to be left to the Bishop ; but 

 the family of the deceased person who first built, or the persons to whom the said 

 two parts were assigned, were to remain in possession of the said houses, till 

 satisfaction were made of the aforesaid value according to the last will of the 

 deceased Canon." 



3 When a Cathedral needed rebuilding or repairing, the Bishop selected from 

 among his clergy a few "preachers," and along with them sent a saint's shrine 

 (feretrum), in which were enclosed relics, to be carried by young clerks in pro- 

 cession through the country. On reaching a town these relics were forthwith 

 taken to the Church and left on one of its altars during their stay there. The 

 " preacher" spoke to the crowds who flocked thither, and those who could afford 

 it threw their offerings on the altar or on the shrine. Thus, in the old statutes 

 of Lichfield (Mon. Angl. viii., 1257), we read " Si contingat quod feretrum debeat 

 per aliquas partes remotas ad elemosinas colligendas deportari, solempnis 

 debet fieri pulsatio, quando feretrum affertur et quando refertur." See Rock's 

 Church of our Fathers, iii., 481. 



