64 Confirmation of the Guild of the Holy Ghost. 



To what extent this happened is not clear, but the following 

 document, which is amongst "the dockets'''' or summaries of the 

 transactions of the Privy Council, A D. 1640, tell us of its restoration 

 to some degree of health under Charles the First. 



I print only enough of the docket to shew the meaning of the 

 entry that relates to this chapel, it is written on a sheet of white 

 paper, of which the writing occupies three sides :— 



" Dockets. 

 «'29 die April 1640. 



" The four usuall warrants to the Exchequer for the charges of redd cloth 

 Spangles Embrodery of Coates for his Ma ts Guards and other his Ma ts and the 

 Queene's servants for this 16 th yeare of his Ma te Raigne subsc d by the Gierke of 

 the Exchequer ; procured by Mr. Secretary Windebank. 



" Three usual warrants. 



" A warrant to the Lord Tres r and other officers of the Exchequer about the 

 accompt of James Dripper Esq. 



" A grant by his Majesty to convert the impropriate Rectory of Cirencester 

 into a Rectory p resent ative with cure of souls. 



" Like grant, Haverfordwest, &c. 



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" A confirmation to the Alderman and Wardens of the fPraternity called the 

 Holy Ghost neere Basingstoke in the County of Southton and their Successors of 

 certaine messuages, lands, and ten ts in Basingstoke to the intent that they should 

 w th the Revenues and pfitts thereof find out one fitt and able priest to celebrate 

 divine service in the Chappell called Holy Ghost Chappell and to keepe a schoole 

 and teach and instruct the children and youth of the said Toune as it was graunted 

 unto them by K Philip and Q Mary 24 ifebr in the third and fourth yeares of 

 their Raigne w th this further use now That w th the Revenues thereof they may 

 also repayre the chappell and schoole house. Subsc d for ut supra upon signification 

 pf his Ma ts pleasure by S r Sidney Mountague ; procur d ut Supra. 



" Waewicz." 



The name " Warwick " at the end of the docket, is that of the 

 newly-appointed 1 (1640) Privy Councillor, Robert Rich, Earl of 

 W arwick, and " the confirmation " of the Guild and the restoration 

 of the Chapel would not, in the times then soon to come, he for^- 

 gotten by that nobleman — whom we hear of some years later as the 

 jovial lover of schismatics — the grandfather of Frances Cromwell's 

 husband — the friend of" My Lord Protector. " 



No doubt the lead from the roof of the Chapel was very useful at 

 the siege of Basing" House ! 



1 Clarendon's History. 



