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Ancient Chapels, 8fc, in Co. Wilts. 



1381. The Free Chapel in the castle of Old Sarura. 

 " Robert Ward instituted, by exchange with Thomas Erles- 

 toke." [Hatcher, p. 709.] 



There was also a church of St. John in the east suburb, of 

 which a chapel was visible in 1540. In the Yalor Eccles. 

 this is named as the Hospital or Free Chapel of St. John, near 

 the castle of Old Sarum. A house of lepers seems to have 

 been attached to it. [Hatcher, p. 92.] 

 Sarum, New. In A.D. 1219, the year before the building of the 

 present Cathedral, a wooden church was set up^ro tempore, 

 dedicated to the B. V. M. 



In Salisbury Cathedral, there were, at the Reformation, 

 eleven endowed chantries, with their proper chaplains more or 

 less. These were the chantries of Bishop J. Waltham, Bishop 

 Edmund Audley, Andrew Hulse, Gilbert Kymer, Dean, Robert 

 Lord Hungerford, another of his, Bishop Beauchamp, Robert 

 Cloun, Blundesdon's, Walter Lord Hungerford, K.Gr. (the 

 iron chapel), and Bishop Bridport. Two beautiful chapels were 

 altogether taken away during Mr. Wyatt's alterations, about 

 1780 ; viz., the Beauchamp Chapel on the south side of the 

 Lady Chapel, and Robert Lord Hungerford's on the north side. 



St. Edmund's. In 1291, the tithes of St. Edmund's were 

 assigned to the maintenance of eight chaplains, to celebrate 

 for the soul of Walter, Bishop of Sarum. [Pope Nicholas 

 Tax.] In the old church which partly fell and was partly 

 taken down, there were five chantries : viz., Reginald 

 Tud worth's (sometimes called St. Edmund's Chantry), St. 

 Katharine's, which stood in the church-yard and had a priest 

 endowed by H. Russell of Salisbury, about A.D. 1500. St. 

 Nicholas, W. Randolph's, and Holy Trinity. The list of all 

 the priests is given in Hatcher, p. 702. 



St. Edmund's College (dissolved). This was for a Provost 

 and thirteen priests (though there were never more than seven) . 



Two chantries were endowed by R. Woodford, in 1347. 

 [Hatcher, p. 88]. The list of Provosts [Ditto 701]. 



In St. Thomas's Church were four endowed chantries : viz., 



