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e cclesiastical supremacy. This statement, however, we pre¬ 
sume, must allude to some building anterior to the present, as 
1 ts style bespeaks it to be of much later date than the early 
part of the thirteenth century. It is a large structure, con¬ 
sisting of a spacious nave, with two side aisles, three chan¬ 
cels, a vestry-room, and a tower at its south-western angle. 
In this church the mayor and other officers of the corporation 
have pews appropriated to them. Here are several large and 
curious monuments in honour of the Eyre family; also a 
plain altar-tomb, without either date or inscription, but 
which is attributed to the Duke of Buckingham, who was 
beheaded by king Richard III., in this city. The last-men¬ 
tioned church, St. Edmund’s, standing at the northern extre¬ 
mity of the city, was formerly collegiate, and was founded 
by Walter-de-la-Wyle, Bishop of Salisbury in the year 1268; 
but the present building is of much later erection, as appears 
from the style of its architecture. One of the windows was 
formerly filled with stained glass, representing a series of 
scripture stories. This was destroyed by Henry Sherfield, 
Esq., recorder of the city, for which act he was summoned 
by the bishop before the Star-Chamber, in 1632, and ad¬ 
judged to pay a fine of 500/. The principal monuments 
in this church commemorate the ancestors and family con¬ 
nexions of Penruddock Wyndham, Esq., a gentleman who 
has evinced a great predilection for topographical and anti¬ 
quarian studies, and who has a large mansion adjoining the 
church. 
The Infirmary stands near Fisherton bridge, and is a 
large brick building, more remarkable for commodious in¬ 
ternal arrangement than for external elegance of appearance. 
This establishment was indebted for its origin to the bene¬ 
volence of Lord Feversham, who bequeathed the sum of 
5001. to the first charity of the kind which should be esta¬ 
blished within the county of Wilts. It is supported by 
benefactions, subscriptions, legacies, and other charitable 
donations, the amount of which, from the commencement 
of the charity in 1766 to the year 1803, is stated in the 
report then made, at 44,608/. 4s. 111*/. 
The County Gaol stands near the Infirmary, and, like it, 
is destitute of architectural interest. The same remark is 
equally applicable to the Assembly and Concert rooms, the 
Theatre, and the Grammar-school. The last, however, is a 
very flourishing establishment of royal foundation, and can 
boast of many names among its pupils, who have been 
highly distinguished as political and literary characters. 
One of these was the celebrated Mr. Addison, who was a 
native of this county. The other charity schools here are 
Godolphin’s school, endowed for the maintenance and edu¬ 
cation of eight orphan young ladies; and the Bishop’s school, 
in which twenty boys and girls are cloathed and educated. 
There is also a Sunday school in each parish; and the city 
abounds with private seminaries of great respectability. 
Monastic Institutions, Hospitals, &c.—In Catholic times 
Salisbury appears to have contained a great variety of reli¬ 
gious establishments of a monastic and collegiate description, 
though none of them attained any very high degree of dis¬ 
tinction or opulence, except the college of St. Edmund, be¬ 
fore mentioned. We shall notice the others, therefore, as 
briefly as possible. Near the south-east entrance into the 
Close, stood a convent of Franciscan or Grey-friars, which 
William of Worcester states to have been founded by bishop 
Poore, in the year 1227; but in the Collectanea of Leland, 
its origin is ascribed to a citizen named Pude, and a hint is 
given of its removal from some former situation, probably 
Old Sarum. In this priory Radulphus Monthermer, earl of 
Gloucester, was buried in the year 1325. The Dominican or 
Black-friars, had a house in Fisherton, which, according to 
Speed, was erected and endowed by king Edward I. and 
archhishop Kilwardy, about the year 1276; but Godwin says 
it was the work of the latter only. Mary, countess of Norfolk, 
instituted in this convent a chantry of six priests, dedicated to 
Our Lady, St. Ann, and AH Saints; all vestiges of whic hare 
now effaced. St. Nicholas’ hospital stood near Harnham 
bridge. It was founded by bishop Richard Poore for a mas¬ 
ter, eight poor women, and four poor men, but seems to have 
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been chiefly carried on and endowed by his successor, bishop 
Bingham. At the time of the dissolution, this hospital was 
among the few which were fortunate enough to escape the 
rapacity and reforming zeal of king Henry VIIE; but queen 
Elizabeth granted it away to patentees, from whom it was 
purchased by the then earl of Pembroke, who prevailed upon 
king James to restore it. During the commonwealth, the 
whole of its revenues were conveyed by Oliver Cromwell to 
the corporation of Salisbury, but part of them was afterwards 
restored, and the establishment still continues to maintain a 
master and twelve poor persons, six women, and as many 
men. Near this hospital stand the ruins of the college of 
Vaux, or Vaulx, which owed its origin to bishop Egidius, in 
the year 1260, for the reception of students; but its prospe¬ 
rity was of very short duration, and at the Reformation it had 
sunk into a sort of appendage to the hospital of St. N icholas, 
both being, as at present, under one warden, who still enjoys 
the accommodation and revenues annexed to the wardenship 
of the ancient college. In Castle-street may be still seen the 
remains of an hospital dedicated to St. John ; and mention 
is made in the Magna Britannia, and by Speed and Dugdale, 
of an hospital in honour of St. Michael, and a college dedi¬ 
cated to St. Edith; but their existence is questioned, upon 
good grounds, by bishop Tanner. The other hospitals in 
Salisbury are, Trinity hospital, which maintains twelve poor 
persons; Bricket’s hospital, for six poor widows; Eyre’s 
hospital for the accommodation of six men and their wives; 
Bleckydon’s hospital, for six poor women ; Taylor’s hospital, 
for six men; and Froud’s hospital, which receives six men, 
and as many women. Besides these charities, there are in 
this city various aim-houses, erected and endowed for the use 
of the poor. In Culver-street are six tenements, said to be 
the gift of bishop Poore ; in St. Ann’s-street three houses, the 
legacy of Mr. Sutton ; in Bedmin street twenty houses, a do¬ 
nation by Mrs. Marks; and in Castle-street fifteen tenements 
given by William Hussey, Esq., when one of the city repre¬ 
sentatives. 
The Bridges, the only public objects which remain to be 
noticed, are Fisherton bridge, Crane bridge, and Harnham 
bridge. The two first are stone structures, of six arches each, 
and serve to connect the city with the suburb of Fisherton. 
Harnham bridge, on the other hand, unites Salisbury with 
the suburb of East Harnham, which some writers assert to 
have been a considerable village before the foundation of the 
new city. This bridge is of ancient erection, consisting of 
ten arches, and is commonly ascribed to bishop Bingham. 
It is divided into two parts by a small islet, where formerly 
stood a chapel, in which three chaplains were appointed to 
say mass, and to receive the contributions of passengers to¬ 
wards defraying the expense of repairs. 
Historical Events .—Having thus furnished an account and 
description of Salisbury in its municipal and ecclesiastical 
character, we shall now briefly notice those events that have 
occurred here, which properly belong to general history. 
A parliament, or national council, was summoned to meet in 
this city by king Edward I., to consult on the measures best 
calculated to recover the English dominions in Gascoigne, 
which had been seized by Phillip of France. In that assem¬ 
bly the lay nobles only were present, the clergy being then 
suspended from the exercise of their civil privileges, for 
having refused some previous aid demanded by the king, 
who had besides confiscated their estates, hoping thereby to 
intimidate the lay barons. In this hope, however, he was 
disappointed. His demands at Salisbury were opposed with 
firmness ; and when the king threatened punishment, nearly 
forty of them threw off their allegiance, and marched out of 
the city at the head of their armed followers. A second par¬ 
liament was held here in 1328, to enquire into the state of 
the kingdom, then groaning under the odious tyranny of 
queen Isabel and earl Mortimer. That nobleman, aware of 
the intention of the earl of Lancaster to move his impeach¬ 
ment, procured an order under the great seal, that none of the 
nobles should appear armed in the assembly. This step 
occasioned most of the lay barons to absent themselves, 
fearing some evil design, and in this they were not mistaken; 
