the necessity of securing the motor char-a-bancs long before the numbers likely to attend the meeting can be known, and the fact that the numbers actually attending the Shaftesbury meeting were smaller than in recent years, led to a deficit of £9 13s. 9d., in the accounts of the meeting. This sum has, however, since the meeting been made up by the contributions of sixteen of the Members who were present, so that the General Fund of the Society does not suffer. LIST OF ALTARS IN SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, AND NAMES OF KINGS OF WHOM THERE WERE REPRESENTATIONS THERE ABOUT THE YEAR 1398. By CHR. WORDSWORTH, M.A., Sub-Dean. MS. I. 2, 6, in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is described in Dr. M. R. James's Catalogue, 1904, p. 22, as containing "Miscellanea a number of tracts [Sermons, &c.] bound together, mostly of cent. xiii. Probably from Chichester. In a kalendar at the end the dedication of Sompting Church [Sussex] occurs. Salisbury documents also occur." 1 The last-named are Statuta dominorum episcoporum Sar. (circa 1256) pp. 172-175, which I transcribed some years ago with the kind permission of the college authorities, and collated with the text of Spelman and Wilkins, and of which I hope to say more in another place, if my papers on Salisbury Cathedral Statutes ever see the light. My note on the present occasion concerns the fly-leaf which has been taken by the binder from a record likewise derived from Salisbury; but, as it was written on a piece of parchment of larger dimensions than the Miscellany (93 x 6 inches), the writing upon it has been ruthlessly cropped away at the right-hand edge, when it came to be used as a fly-leaf by the binder. The record gave two lists connected with the interior of Salisbury Cathedral Church at the close of the 14th century:-(1) a list of the altars, (2) a list of royal personages whose portraiture in some form or other decorated the choir. The right-hand fore-edge of the list of altars has been cut away, so that each of the nine long lines (ie., every line of the list exclusive of its comparatively brief heading) has been shorn of one or more syllables, or it may be of as much as two or three words, which are now lost irrecoverably, except so far as in one or two instances the necessary restoration of the last word is so nearly inevitable that it can hardly be styled "conjectural," or anything short of certain. 1 Descriptive Catalogue of the Western MSS. in the Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Camb. Univ. Press, 1904. See pp. 22-27 for MS. I. 2. 6. (I.) List of ALTARS in Salisbury Cathedral, In ecclesia Cathedrali Sarisburiensi sunt altaria infra scripta videlicet Summum altare in choro. (1) (2) Item in vestiario .j. altare beate marie virginis. (3) Item in capella beate m[arie (4) Item in parte boriali capelle beate marie j. altare Sancti Johannis Eu'ngeliste. (5) Item in parte austr[ali eiusdem] unum altare sancti Stephani. (6, 7) Item ex opposito borial. hostium (sic) chori j. altare sancti mart [ini]. [etj.] sancte Katerine. (8, 9) Item ex oposito austral. hostium (sic) chori .j. altare sancte (^“marie” interlined) magdalene .&. beati [nicolai.] (10, 10, 10) Item iuxt" hostium occidental. chori vz in parte borial. chori j. altare sancti Thome martiris [[& Sancti edwardi] regis & martiris | adiuncta [cum p' .xj. m. virg'. (in margin)]. (11) Item j. altare sancti Edmundi Confessoris. (12,a 12o) Item j. altare sancti Johannis [baptiste et] omnium reliquiarum adinvicem. (13, 14, 14) Item iuxta hostium occidental' in parte australi .j. altare beate mar[garete & altare] beati Lawrencij & uincencij. (15) Item (^“ j. altare" interlin.) beati Michaelis.^2 (16) Item in corpore ecclesie coram magna cruce in parte boria[l' (The "Names of Kings in Salisbury Church," which we print in the second part of this paper, follow immediately as the next paragraph in the MS. at Emmanuel College.) NOTES. 1. The high altar in the choir. This was dedicated (in 1258) "in honour of the Assumption of B. Mary." (See my Salisbury Processions and Ceremonies, Camb., 1901, p. 74.) It probably stood some feet to the west of the present principal altar in the Cathedral. The windlass for the Lenten veil is still affixed to the column on the north. 1 10a, 10, 10°, &c., in these and similar instances I have placed an index letter above the numeral in order to draw attention to the fact that the list assigns more than one dedication to the altars in question. It is not impossible that 6, 7 and 8, 9 are not likewise treated as altars with double dedications by the scribe. The carets which occur in the MS. at Nos. 15, 17, have apparently lost the words which were written for insertion there, through the cruelty of the binder's knife. 2. Altar of B. V. Mary in the vestry. The original sacristy, vestry, and treasury at Salisbury was, I suppose, the small rectangular chamber at the end of the south-east transept, which became a passage-room when the octagonal treasury, or canon's vestry, with the muniment room above it, was added to the original building somewhat later in the 13th century. The original vestry now serves as the lay-vicars' robing-room. The vestry-altar may have been removed into the lower treasury1 on the erection of the latter. Salisbury Processions, pp. 289, 290; cf. J. W. Clark, Archit. Hist. of Cambridge, 1886, iii., pp. 482-3. Holy water was blessed "privatim" on Maundy Thursday before the altar "in vestibulo," according to printed Processionals of Salisbury use, so we may say without hesitation that an altar in the vestry existed, and we have now learnt what was its dedication. 3. In the chapel of B. Mary (ie., "The Lady Chapel," as it is now commonly called). The words cut away were, presumably, quæ dicitur Salue, unum altare S. Trinitatis, or unum altare omnium Sanctorum (as in Sarum Customs-Frere, Use of Sarum, i., 115). The "Salve" altar of the Ever Blessed Trinity was dedicated in 1225, and Bishop Richard Poore at once instituted the daily mass "Salve, sancta parens." Missale Sar., col. 779.* 4. Altar of St. John Evangelist on the north side of the Lady Chapel. This was dedicated in 1225 as the "altar of St. Peter and All Apostles." It was perhaps used on each apostle's festival, and it may have come soon to be known by the name of St. John, on account of the procession to it taking place in Christmas week. However, the MS. Fasti, cited in Salisbury Proc., p, 211, shows that in the 18th century it was supposed at Salisbury that there had been an altar of St. John distinct from the "Apostles' altar," 1 In a document dated 5th May, 1451, cited in Salisbury Processions and Ceremonies, 1901, p. 127, an “altar in the treasury" (thesauraria) is mentioned as having carpet stretched from the Bishop's Throne to it on occasion of his enthronization. The altar of All Hallows is mentioned in the inventory of Abraham de Winton, Treasurer, cir. 1214—1222, next after the altar of St. Peter and immediately before that of St. Stephen (Salisb. Proe. pp. 180, 192). An altar with the same title is mentioned in the margin of the MS. Procession Book at Salisbury, ubi supra pp. 76, 200, 209, 287, in one entry written after 1445. but that they were close together. But the study of this fragmentary list in the Emmanuel Coll. MS. has only confirmed me in my opinion that the tradition at Salisbury in the 17th and 18th centuries does not deserve the credit which Dr. John Milner, F.S.A, the eminent Bishop of Castabala in partibus infidelium, and controversialist, gave to it in 1811. The altar of St. Peter and the Apostles was on the site now occupied by the Gorges monument. and I gather that the Emmanuel MS. intends to identify that of St. John the Evangelist with it; for it makes no mention of St. Peter's altar. The lists of Altarists bear out the same conclusion.2 5. The altar of St. Stephen, on the south, dedicated in 1225, the site is now occupied by the great Somerset, Hereford, or Seymour monumental structure erected about 1621. 6, 7. Altar of St. Martin and St. Katherine, opposite the north door of the choir. These were in the chapel in the north-eastern transept known as the Morning Chapel, which has been furnished in memory of Bishop Webb. As the termination of St. Martin's 1See Salisb. Processions, p. 221. The statement in MS. Fasti relates to the burial-place of Bp. W. of York. Mr. A. R. Malden has cited the same tradition in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxvii., p. 344. The Altarists were usually the elder choristers whose voices had changed. The duty of each was to prepare one of the altars in the cathedral for mass, sometimes they were required to ring the bell under the sacrist's direction; to serve the priest vicar, or other chaplain responsible for singing mass at his altar, or in case of his neglect to report the omission to the Clerk of the Fabrick. There were outside and inside altarists-" extrinseci" and "intrinseci." I presume that the latter served altars in the Lady Chapel or in the aisles and transepts of the eastern part of the cathedral, while the extrinseci had duties in the nave, or (as the Altarist of St. Margaret's chapel was one) in the western transepts. The intrinseci (called “interiores” in 1451, and "antiqui" in 1445) were usually six in number, and were attached to the altars of SS. Martin, Katherine, John the Evangelist (and all Apostles), St. Lawrence, and B. Mary the Virgin (Salve), and the morning (or morrow mass) altar. They helped serve the Loving Cup on Maundy Thursday. After the Reformation six Altarists were still appointed from the elder choristers, and, during the reign of King Charles I., from the Lay Vicars. They received a small annual payment pro le 0" (in connexion with O Sapientia, &c.). About 1750 some of the Altarists' places were filled by Priest Vicars, but in the Sarum Almanac, cir. 1864-75, only one Altarist is named. Mr. Holmys' Book in sub-commoner's account, cir. 1526-58, mentions a payment of 6d. each to nine Altarists and of 2d. each to six Altarists of paradyse (pp. 11, 22), probably for the Great Oes. 46 1 |