Hungerford Chapels in Salisbury Cathedral. 



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By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



It is proposed in this paper to give some account of two Chantry 

 Chapels, founded by the Hungerford family in Salisbury Cathedral. 

 One of these, the earliest, still remains; but the second has been 

 long since entirely removed. Therefore in referring to the first, 

 you will have your own acquaintance with the Cathedral to assist 

 you. The description of the second you will be so good as to take 

 upon trust. 



A few words, by way of preface, upon Chantries in general. 

 A Chantry was an endowment or perpetual stipend settled upon 

 one or more priests to say daily mass for the souls of a deceased 

 Founder and his friends. The name is also applied to a particular 

 altar, * or more frequently to a little chapel, annexed to a Church. 

 The main use and intent of them was for prayers for souls departed, 

 on a supposition of Purgatory, and of being released therefrom by 

 masses satisfactory. The anniversary day of the Founder's death 

 was called his Obit. 



Fuller, the Church Historian (a Prebendary of Sarum), has some 

 quaint remarks upon Chantries, and their suppression at the end 

 of the reign of Henry VIII. He says that 



"A Chantry was what we call in grammar an adjective, unable 

 to stand of itself, and was therefore united for better support to 

 some Parochial, Collegiate, or Cathedral Church. 



" Henry VIII. made three meals, or if you will, one meal of 

 three courses, on Abbey lands : besides what Cardinal Wolsey, the 

 King's taster herein, had eaten beforehand, when assuming smaller 



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