By the Rev. Canon Moberly. 



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Robert Wande, a descendant, no doubt, of the Henry Wande, who, 

 a hundred years before, had given them a smaller piece of land 

 adjoining the hospital premises. 



In 1407 the chapter came to a resolution that the office of warden 

 of the Valley College should always be filled within three days of 

 the vacancy occurring, by election of the canons actually resident, 

 and therefore on the spot. This resolution indicates that the 

 wardenship, if not a mere sinecure, was little thought of, and that 

 no pains were taken to secure the best man for it. The last warden 

 whom we hear of in the century was J ohn Symondsbury, Archdeacon 

 of Wilts, treasurer of the Cathedral, and prebendary successively 

 of Yatesbury and Stratton, who died 1454. 



In 1414 was passed a statute concerning hospitals that the 

 ordinaries should enquire of the manner of the foundation, estate, 

 and government of the same, and correct and reform them, " ac- 

 cording to the laws of Holy Church, as to them belongeth." In 

 1414 Robert Hallum was Bishop of Salisbury, and therefore ordinary. 

 We hear of no examination held, or reforms recommended ; but in 

 the summer of that year Bishop Hallum went to Constance, where 

 he died in 1417 : and in the preparation for the great Church council 

 the affairs of an obscure hospital may well have been overlooked. 

 William Spaldwick was probably warden in 1414. 



V. — The Reformation Period, 

 1478—1593.. 



When the veil, which has been upon it for the last two centuries, 

 lifts, Bishop Beauchamp is promulgating his statutes concerning 

 the house or hospital of St. Nicholas Sarum, 1478. This year, also, 

 Roger Newenton resigned the wardenship, and Henry Sutton took 

 it : which may well have been in consequence of the new statutes, 

 or in preparation for them. 



I will now give a translation of the text of these statutes 



" 1— First, it is ordained and determined that if any of the brothers or sisters 

 "be a frequent stirrer of strife, and do not repent after being twice warned by 

 the master, on tbe third occasion when he deserves punishment he should be 

 expelled by the master. 



"2. — Also, it is ordained that the master or warden of the said house of St. 



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