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The Tropenell Cartulary. 



Mayor, wore dissatisfied with the old conditions of Bishop Poore 

 under which they lived, and approached, through attorneys, the 

 King and Council on the matter, with the result that the city lost 

 its status. And we have here its re-instateinent under Bishop 

 Simon (1:105). The articles are long and of great interest, and 

 include what were really the ordinances 1 of the city, descending, as 

 usual, to the regulation of articles of daily consumption. And a 

 gild merchant (p. 257) was estahlished anions those who should 

 obey the Bishop. 



The letters from Bishop Simon are dated from Sonning, June 

 7th, 1306 (34 Edward L). 



Next, charter of Bishop Robert Hallum in favour of Mayor and 

 community, dated New Sarum, in l."> Henry IV. (1412). 



Also from Dean Bildeston, dated August 20th, 1440 (IS Henry 

 VI.). This is extracted from the register of Simon Houchyns, fo. 1 1. 

 [Chapter clerk of Salisbury ; register from 1440 — 144").] 



Lastly, we have the foundation charter of January 30 th (1227), 

 11 Henry III., three ancient copies of which exist in the muniment 

 room at Salisbury Cathedral, and an original copy is helieved to 

 exist among the city archives. It is, of course, enrolled in the 

 P.E.O. It is minute and of great interest, hut its provisions are well 

 known. It gives an account of the translation of the Church from 

 the castle to a lower place, and of the Kin- having laid the first 

 stone. The city was to he free and fortified, and its citizens en- 

 dowed with the full powers of the citizens of Winchester. &c. 



I now learn from Mr. Maiden, who is. of course, intimately 



acquainted with the Salisbury muniments, that these documents 



of which I have heen speaking are a duplicate of what exists in 



the Chapter House. Bishop Richard Beauchamp (Bishop of 

 Salisbury from 14f>0 — 1482), as is well known, had a long contro- 

 versy with the Mayor and Corporation of Salisbury as to the rights 

 and privileges of the see and the city respectively, ami the documents 

 in the cartulary form the first part of those which the Bishop had 

 copied in support of his case before Henry VI., and Kdward I V. 



1 A translation, or analysis, of these ordinances of New S.unin is given in 

 Hoare's \I<»ltr,i Wiltshire (Salisbury), pp. 75 — 7'.*. 



