By the Me Rev. R. H. Okdterbnck, F.S.A. 145 



one of these writs issued as to one of the Andover chantries. The 

 statutes for the government and regulation of these Fraternities are 

 still extant to the number of more than five hundred, enough to 

 teach us the characteristic purposes and value of these institutions. 

 They are the remnant of a return ordered by Parliament in the 

 twelfth year of Richard II., 1388. 



They are full of interest, and would be well worth examining 

 for the sake of the light they would shed on these examples at 

 Salisbury, but time will not permit of my doing so now. The 

 Early English Text Society printed them in 1870, with notes by 

 the late Toulmin Smith and an introduction by Dr. Brentano, to 

 which I must refer you. 



I come now to the saddest record in the accounts of this once 

 admirable Fraternity in Salisbury. It runs thus : — 



" Symon Hainsterley Stuard of Jesus Masse hath delyuered to William 

 Helbroke xxiijs. vjd the xxviij day of Aprell in the xxvijth yere of Kynge Henry 

 the viijth. Md that William Holbrowke Steward of J'hs mas hathe made a dewe 

 and a clere accompte the day and yere a bouseyd (the xxiij day of marche A° 

 mcccccxxxvi) and hathe delyuered vnto Davy Sydnam at the day of the seyd 

 accompte xxxvs. ijd. Md that Davy Sydhnam hathe made a dewe accompte the 

 xiiij day oil Aprell A° mcccccxxxvij and owthe none arreragis to the churche." 



" April 22, 1547, Christopher Tomson paid to Robert Harryson 29s. 9d. and 

 ys clerely dyscharged & acquyted, there beyng present Mr. wyllyam Hanna 

 mayre, Mr. Rob. Holmes, Mr. Wyllyam bryan, Mr. Thomas shorte, Mr. Thomas 

 chafyn yonger ffolkes Mownslow and William Kent." 



This is the statement from the fraternity side of the result of the 

 commission issued by Henry VIII. or Edward VI. to enquire and 

 report on all the " Colleges, Chauntreys, free chapels, ffraternyties, 

 Brotherhoods, Stypendaryes, Obbitts, Lyghts, lamps and Anniver- 

 saries." The report on the Fraternity of the Jesus Mass at St. 

 Edmund's was that the incumbent was Nicholas Duryes, of the age 

 of 63 years ; that the property was worth £7 lbs. Id, from which 

 7s. 4:d. had to be paid to the bishop as quit rent, and 6s. to the 

 priest of Tudworth's Chantry in St. Edmund's Church, so that the 

 clear value was £7 2s. ; 



" that the sayd Incumbent is a man of honest behavj^or and fame, albeit a very 

 poore man, and hath none other lyving but the service before written, and 

 furthermore he is not able to serve a cure bjy reason that he is impotente." 



