86 Hungerford Chapels in Salisbury Cathedral. 



and a portion of their armour. Some of these Chapels in our 

 Cathedrals are amongst the most splendid works of art, belonging 

 to their respective times, as may be seen at Winchester, Gloucester, 

 Windsor, and elsewhere. In old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 

 there were no less than forty-seven Chantries. 



In Salisbury Cathedral there appear to have been, at the Refor- 

 mation, several of these endowed Chantries or Chantry Chapels — 

 viz., those of John Waltham, Bishop of Sarum, who died 1395; 

 Edmund Audley, Bishop, who died 1524; Richard Beauchamp, 

 Bishop, 1482 ; Giles Bridport, Bishop, 1262 ; Gilbert Keymer, or 

 Kymer, Dean, 1463 ; Henry Blundesdon, 1335 ; Roger Cloun, about 

 1390; Andrew Hulse; Walter, Lord Hungerford, 1449; and 

 Robert, Lord Hungerford, his son, 1459. 



Before proceeding to describe the two Hungerford Chapels I 

 must first say a few words about that celebrated Wiltshire family, 

 of which there is almost as little left amongst us as there is of one 

 of their Chapels; especially (as most suitable on this occasion) 

 about their connexion with the City of Salisbury. 



They appeared in this county for the first time as an acknowleged 

 family of importance about 1300. I find a priest of Sarum of the 

 name a little earlier. They probably derived their family name 

 from the town of Hungerford, in which neighbourhood their earliest 

 property appears to have been situated. The first of any eminence 

 was a Sir Robert, who died in 1352. He was representative for 

 the county in Parliament, and a Justice in Eyre. He was owner 

 of property in " Novel- street, in New Sarum." He had a brother, 

 Walter, Bailiff of Salisbury, 1333. 



Sir Thomas, son of Walter, who died in the reign of Richard II., 

 was steward to John of Gaunt, and sometime, but for a very short 

 time, Speaker of the Commons in Parliament. He purchased the 

 estates at Heytesbury and Farley Castle. He is described first as 

 a " citizen and merchant of New Sarum" in 1357, though in what 

 sort of wares he dealt I cannot say — probably in wheat and wool — 

 for in the possession of broad acres on and under the Wiltshire 

 downs, where those commodities are apt to grow, the Hungerfords 

 were certainly no wise deficient. It is a common saying, not yet, 



