By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 167 



maremio dato Grant of building materials," and runs 



"The King to Peter de Malo-Lacu health. Know that we have given to 

 our venerable father Richard Bishop of Salisbury twenty couples (of beams) 

 in our park of Gillingham to make his hall at New Sarum. And therefore 

 we order you to let him have those twenty couples wherever he can most 

 conveniently have them. Witness as above." 



"[Westminster 9th May 1221]." 



The second is endorsed " de x copulis datis "= <e Grant of ten 

 couples (of beams)/' and runs as follows : — 



" The King to John of Monmouth health. We order you to let the venerable 

 father Richard Bp. of Salisbury have ten couples (of beams) of oak in our 

 wood (haya) of Milcet, which we have given him to make his chamber at 

 Sarum. Witness H. &c, at Neubir 30 Dec. in the sixth year of our reign 

 by the same before our Lord of Winton."=30 Dec. 1221. 



The interest of these rolls will be manifest to everyone who knows 

 the character of domestic buildings of the twelfth and thirteenth 

 centuries, and who is acquainted with the present house. They 

 show that the house was begun almost as soon as the Lady Chapel 

 — the earliest part of the Cathedral — and suggest that it was finished 

 in all its essential features before Bishop Poore's departure to Durham. 

 A comparison also of the rolls with the existing building seems to 

 prove that we possess nearly all his work. They speak first of a 

 hall (aula) and then of a chamber (camera) which with their sub- 

 structures and appendages would cover all the necessary parts of a 

 house of the date in question. The identification of the hall is 

 happily quite clear. It is, of course, the great upper room about 

 54ft. long by 24ft. wide, now used as a drawing-room, which is 

 immediately over the vaulted room and passage that I have just had 

 the pleasure of restoring, with the kind advice and oversight of Mr. 

 Arthur Reeve. This was the chief building, and was naturally 

 completed first. The chamber, I can have little doubt, is the block 

 of building with a sharp pointed roof, which is set at the side of the 

 south-west part of the " aula," so as to form with it a building of 

 the shape of a Greek gamma (I") or the right half of a capital T. 

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