By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 175 



cartload of hay from our meadow of Bugmore, as well as the grass 

 growing within the precincts of the palace. If these emoluments 

 are not paid he has the right to enter the manor of Milford and 

 distrain. This deed is dated " At our Manor of Remmesbury, 24th 

 June, 1495, the 10th year of King Henry the Vllth, and of our 

 consecration the second. 39 This grant was confirmed by the Chapter 

 during the vacancy after Bishop Blyth's death, 7th August, 1499. 

 It appears from a phrase in it that this office of caretaker was not a 

 new one, and we may presume that it was a profitable one. Bishop 

 Blyth was, however, probably not so much non-resident as many of 

 his contemporaries — since he ordained nine times in the Cathedral 

 (seven of these in the Lady Chapel) — as against nine times in six 

 other Churches, not one of which was at Ramsbury. You will 

 pardon what may seem to be something of a digression, though it 

 certainly illustrates the relation of the house to the diocese. 



The third division of the house is, as you remember, Bishop 

 Beauchamp's Hall. This hall was very much ruined in the time of 

 the Civil Wars, and it is therefore very difficult to recover its plan ; 

 nor is it easy to understand how it was connected originally with 

 the work of Bishop Poore and with the chapel, which are distant a 

 good many feet from it. I am inclined to think that there was a 

 long low range of buildings, containing a kitchen and other offices 

 on the ground-floor, and bedrooms or store-rooms above, running 

 pretty much where the present red briek and plastered wing does 

 which faces south towards Bishop Denison's pretty enclosed garden. 

 Mr. Reeve will tell you what he thinks about it in detail, but I may 

 say that when the Royal Archaeological Institute was here in 1887 

 the members were generally of opinion that Bishop Beauchamp^s 

 Hall ran north and south, like Bishop Poore's, which it must at one 

 time have faced, when the court was open. There was then a 

 passage leading by its side from the main door in the tower to 



ecclesiae Cathedralis Sarum antedictae in omnibus semper sal vis. In cuius 

 rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apposuimus Datum 

 in domo nostra capitulari Sarum quoad sigilli appositionem vicesimo septimo 

 die mensis Augusti Anno Domini millesimo cccc mo nonagesimo nono." 



Compare a similar grant from Ri. Poore to Jordan Marescal of the custody 

 of his houses in London, in 1223 (Jones' Register of S. Osmund, ii., p. 24). 



