By tJie Rev. Canon Moherly. 



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two halves of the new house he joined by a passage over the hospital 

 porch, and called the house " The Old Kitchen/ 5 assigning to it a 

 garden down to the river bank. 



But where should he make the new hospital kitchen ? He found 

 room for it at the east end, by turning the common hall into a 

 kitchen. It will be remembered that Geoffrey Blyth, or Wilton , 

 had made this common hall out of the eastern half of the north 

 chapel, turning the western half of it into a buttery, inmate's room, 

 and woodhouse. This western half Bigge now crowned with a 

 second storey, in which he made four brothers' rooms. All this we 

 find from the old accounts he did in 1622. But in 1621 he had 

 " ditched and paled the litton." The old hospital cemetery, which 

 had been " reconciled " in 1501, had been turned into an orchard 

 belonging to the hospital farm. But on the demolition of the farm- 

 house Mr. Bigge ditched and paled it, and let it in 1662 with the rest 

 of the farm-house lands to one Bate for the yearly rent of £5 18s. 

 It would be interesting to identify the litton exactly. Mr. 

 Hickman estimates its extent at three-quarters of an acre, and the 

 deed by which Hancock surrenders the farm-house says that it lay 

 on the north side of the farm-house. We may, therefore, pronounce 

 with some confidence that it is all that corner of the property which 

 lies between the Harnham Road and the road under the Close wall. 



Five years before the deaths of both Mr. Bigge and the Earl of 

 Pembroke (they died in the same year, 1630), the latter executed a 

 deed of gift of the next presentation to the hospital wardenship to 

 John Nicholas, Esq., of Winterborne Earls. Mr. Bigge died 

 seemingly at the hospital : if so, he was the last master who has 

 resided there. He left a widow, and two daughters married to 

 Joseph Bate and John Dove. J oseph Bate was probably the lessee of 

 the farm-house lands. John Dove at all events bore the same name 

 with the Presbyterian colonel who made himself well known in 

 Salisbury during the Commonwealth, and who was high sheriff for 

 Wilts in 1655. 



VII. — The Last Two Hundred and Sixty Years. 

 1630—1890. 



On Mr. Bigge's death Mr. Nicholas presented to the mastership 



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