By the late Rev. R. H. Chtterbuck, F.S.A. 



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dedication for gilds. The characters, who are called Johnny Jacks, 

 or Mummers, or Christmas Boys, are dressed in a costume of fringes 

 of wall paper, of which I show a specimen. The play as acted in 

 the neighbourhood of Andover has been printed by the Salisbury 

 Journal, and may be had at the Journal Office in a small pamphlet 

 form. We must come now to the question as to how these funds 

 were used. In Andover the objects were the maintenance of some 

 almshouses known as the Spytal, which still exist, and the main- 

 tenance of a stipendiary priest, whom we should describe as an 

 assistant curate. At Basingstoke, where the Fraternity Chapel is 

 such a well-known object, the education of youth was the good 

 work undertaken, and at the suppression of the chantries, on the 

 petition of Lord Sandys, it was refounded as the Grammar School, 

 and the master of that school is still cited to visitations as " Chaplain 

 of the Chapel of the Holy Ghost." The late Dr. Millard published 

 the accounts of the Fraternity from 1557 to 1653. The Fraternity 

 we know most about in Salisbury was that of the Jesus Mass at St. 

 Edmund's, and its name indicates the chief object of its endeavours, 

 namely, the provision of a daily celebration for the parishioners. 

 You will of course remember that St. Edmund's was a collegiate 

 Church, and its own staff would be occupied with their own services, 

 and those for which they were responsible. But the parishioners 

 had the use of the nave, and at the altar of the Holy Cross in the 

 nave, they, through the agency of this Fraternitj^, provided them- 

 selves with their own service. From the fact, I suppose, of their 

 using the altar dedicated to the Holy Cross they are sometimes 

 called the Brethren and Sisters of the Fraternity of Jesus and the 

 Holy Cross. There was an altar at St. Edmund's dedicated to the 

 name of Jesus. Their priest had for his " wages " £5 6s. 8d. a 

 year as a regular thing, though he got a few extras. For instance, 

 on the Fridays in Lent he sang Salve, for which he got 7s. extra. 

 The Salve is an antiphon sung in procession with the choir, the 

 priest vested in a cope, the choir present with lights. It was sung 

 after Compline, and therefore both priests and choir were allowed 

 their supper. The account is entered in this way :— 



" for brede aud ale for priests and clarkes singing at Salve in Lent 5s. 8d." 



