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St. Mc/iolas } Hospital, Salisbury. 



himself certified that during the twenty years between 1851 and 

 1870 the amount which he derived from the hospital for his own 

 use was only £196 11$. Id. 



I succeeded Mr. Howman upon his death in 1878; and in 1884 

 I pulled down and re-built the master's house, carefully preserving, 

 however, the old arcade of arches, and as far as possible the old 

 character of the building. If in any degree I have been successful 

 in this, it is mainly due to the interest in the old building of the 

 Bev. Lewis Gidley, the late chaplain, whose acquaintance with the 

 hospital was far greater than my own. 



There is still much to be done at the hospital in the way of further 

 development of the charity. These things must wait for the neces- 

 sary funds, and perhaps will be carried out by a future generation ; 

 but meantime I rejoice to have put on record in this shape the 

 history of the hospital in its three stages : — as the unknown founder 

 designed it ; as Bingham made it a hospital for the sick with 

 brethren and nurses ; as Beauchamp restricted it to twelve pensioners; 

 who still, in spite of threats of dissolution which from time to time 

 have been heard, enjoy its bounty. 



APPENDIX A. 



" Carta Comitissse Else de assarto in Bentlewood. 

 " Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos prsesens scriptum pervenerit, Ela comitissa 

 Sarum salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me intuitu Dei et pro salute 

 animse domini mei Willelmi Longspee Comitis Sarum, et pro salute anima3 mese, 

 et pro animabus patris et matris mese, liberorum, antecessorum, et heredum 

 meorum, dedisse, concessisse, et prsesenti Charta confirmasse Deo et Hospitali 

 Sancti Nicholai de nova Sarum, et venerabili in Cbristo patri Bichardo episcopo 

 et successoribus suis episcopis Sarum, ad sustentationem pauperum et infirmorum 

 Hospitalis quod plene est in ordinatione prsedictorum Eichardi episcopi et suc- 

 cessorum suorum episcoporum Sarum, Totam terram clausi mei australis de 

 Bentle[s]wood quae mihi remansit post donum quod feci Jobanni de Monemue, 

 Willelmo de Nevill, Alluredo de Boterell persona? de West Deane, per concordiam 

 coram Justitiariis itinerantibus inter me et ipsos factam, cum bosco et assarto, 

 pratis et pasturis, viis et semitis, libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, et 

 omnibus aliis rebus ad eandem terram pertinentibus, cum clauso de Buclea. 

 Concessietiam prsedictoHospitali sexaginta averia cum exitibus unius anui. et duo- 

 dccim equos vel equas et sexaginta porcos, et trecentas oves. Habenda in perpetuum 

 libere et quiete in pastura, per omnia loca ubi pradicti Johannes de Monemue, 

 Willelmus de Nevill, Alluredus de Boterell persona de West Deane habent meOUDtt 

 communia, vel ego cum cis ; omnia autom praxlieta habebuut ot teuebunt prasfati 



