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St. Nicliolas' Hospital, Salisbury. 



part Salisbury, sometimes Salsary Hall, the other Little St. Edmund 

 Hall, on the site of which now stand Brasenose Hall, and part of 

 their library." Antony Wood, who records this, also tells us that 

 "the [Salisbury] scholars had a privilege among them, that on the 

 testimony of the chancellor of that church of their standing and 

 profit in letters, they might proceed to degrees in the university of 

 Oxford." But this no doubt would rather apply to the Cathedral 

 scholars, for whom the chancellor was answerable. 



In Leland's time (1540) we read that "part of these scholars 

 remain in the college at Salisbury, and have two chaplains to serve 

 the Church there being dedicate to St. Nicholas : the residue study 

 at Oxford." Here we have a testimony to the lastingness of the 

 arrangement whereby some of the Valley Scholars were always at 

 Oxford : and also a witness to the fact that the " Church " or 

 <f Chapel " at the Valley College was dedicated to St. Nicholas. 

 Further, as to the connection between the two institutions, Mr. 

 Hickman tells us that " in some old papers 'tis said that the College 

 de Vaux was a part o£ the hospital (that is, belonging to the 

 hospital) of St. Nicholas, and was suppressed in the time of King 

 Henry VIII. or Edward VI. . . . Besides there are (or have 

 been doors) in an old wall over against St. Nicholas', which seems to 

 intimate a communication formerly between those two old religious 

 foundations." If this is true the doors must have been in the 

 north-west corner of the St. Nicholas' ground : and yet the com- 

 munication cannot have been a private one, as there must always 

 have been the breadth of the road which still runs between them. 1 



Meantime there can be no question that St. Nicholas was more 

 wealthy in land than th*e~ Valley College : and yet that the latter 

 possessed land independently of the former there is equally no doubt. 

 In addition to the lands at Wilsford, Broad Hinton, Gerardstone, 

 Fisherton, and New Sarum which were already theirs, the hospital 

 acquired about 1340 a valuable gift of land in East Harnham from 



1 This would be true supposing that the Harnham road always struck the Close 

 wall at right angles, as now. But may it not possibly have run straight from 

 the hospital to the Close gate, and so left room upon the north-east for the Valley 



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