REGISTER and INVENTORY of the JEWELS and RICHES belonging to the Cathedral Church of Sarum, made by Master Thomas Robertson, Treasurer of the same Church, in the Year 1536. 28 Hen. 8.—From the Antiquitates Sarisburienses. IMAGINES. An image of God the Father, with our Saviour young, of silver and gilt, with gold ornate with red stones, weighing 74 ounces. Another of our Lady, silver and gilt, with precious stones, the gift of Radulphus de Stratford, quondam Thesaurarius hujusce Ecclesiæ, weighing 50 ounces. Another grate and fair ymage of our Lady sitting in a chair; on her head is a crown of silver, set about with stones and pearls, and about her neck a droiche depending thereby, and in her hand a sceptre. Her child sits in her lap, and a cross in his hand, with large fair stones, very costly and fair to look upon, and a scripture Ex dono Johannis Norton.-Relicks of St. Catharine, enclosed in a head of silver, standing on a pedestal, brought from Rome by Maister Heytham.-A great ymage of the holy Seynt Osmund, all of silver and gilt, ornate with stones of divers colours, and weighing 83 ounces.—Item. An arm of St. Thomas a Becket, in a casket, and some other holy relicks.—Baculi Pastorales. A hede of a staff, copper and gilt.-Item. A hede, ornate with stones, silver and gilt, and three circles about the staff, wanting nine stones. Item. Another, with one knop, and pearls and other stones, having an ymage of St. John the Baptist; wants sixteen stones and pearls and one socket; weighs 42 ounces.-Item. Two staves, covered with silver and gilt, having an image of our Lady, and a priest kneeling, with this scripture, Ora pro nobis; having also one knop, with six buttresses and six windows in the midst; one of them wanting a pinnacle and two little knops of pinnacles, with one top of a window. The gift of Rad. Ergum, with this scripture, Benedictus Deus in donis suis.—Item. Staves of wood, with branches of vines in plates of silver upon them. CISTE CUM RELIQUIIS. A fair chest, curiously and cleanly made, covered with cloth of gold, with shields of noblemen set with pearls, with lock, gemmels, and key silver and gilt.-Item. One fair chest, painted and gilded, with precious stones and knops of glass, broidered with coral, seven of them wanting, and painted within like silver.-Item. Three other chests, very fair, and ornate with precious stones, with gemmels of silver and gilt.—Item. One chest, containing relicks of the eleven thousand Virgins in four purses, with this scripture, Ex dono domini Asserii.—Item. Four chests, covered with blue cloth, containing ten corporasses and divers relicks of cypress wood, and ornate with arms.—Item. Five corporasses cases contained in a chest painted. Also divers chests, some with clasps and keys, and others having none; some covered with cloth of blue and silver, and others ornate with ivory, and gemmels and locks. PYXIDES A pyx of ivory, bound above and beneath with silver and gilt, having a squared steeple on the top, with a ring and a rose, and an escutcheon in the bottom, having within a case of cloth of gold, with I. H. S. on every side set with pearls.—Item. A round pyx, silver and gilt, with the sacrament, weighs 18 ounces.-Item. A round pyx of chrystal, ornate with silver and gilt, containing the Relicks of St. Damasus and dyvers seynts, weighing eight ounces.-Item. Another of ivory, bound with copper, conteyning the chain wherwyth St. Catharine bound the Devil.-Item. Divers pyxides of ivory, with clasps and without them, of silver, with many holy relicks. CRUCES. A double cross flory of gold and silver. It stands upon four lions, and has part of our Saviour's cross, with plates of gold, and many stones of divers colours and pearls.-Item. A cross, containing a piece of that of St. Andrew, and divers relicks, with some of the precious hair of Seynt Peter, round in the head, stands upon a foot, with six stones red and blue, containing this scripture in the back, ex Ligno Domini et Sti Andreæ.—Item. A silver crucifix, with a socket and knob, having two inches long of the holy cross; there are four Evangelists engraven, and a man kneeling with a chalice in his hand; the whole weighs 59 ounces. With this scripture, Ex dono Jocelini de Bailul.-Item. A little cross, curiously ornate with relicks of St. Machabei, St. George, and Innocents; it is like a quatrefoille.-Item. A great cross, silver and gilt, with ymages on the crucifix, Mary and John; and on the left part of the cross wanting two flowers, and of the right part two flowers, and in the top three flowers, having four Evangelists in the four corners; the foot hath a base with six images; the coronation and salutation of our Lady, St. George, and St. Hugh: the whole weighing 180 ounces.-Item. A cross, with Abrahain offering up Isaac, and a lamb behind him, with an angel wanting one wing, and on the left side the images of Abel and Cain; weighing 63 ounces and a quarter. CALICES. A chalice, silver and gilt, with a paten chased in the foot, with a written knop, and two gilded spoons, containing a scripture, Blessed be God; with another in the bottom, Gilberti Keymer: it weighs 28 ounces.—Item. One great chalice, silver and gilt, with a paten weighing 76 ounces, with the Passion in the foot, and the salutation of our Lady; and in the paten the coronation of our Lady; with a scripture, Pro nobis ora Domina, et in sanguine resta.—Item. A chalice, silver and gilt, with the image of a crucifix in the foot, with a paten; our Saviour sitting upon the rainbow, with a scripture, Laudate Dominum in Ecclesia Sanctorum.—Item. Eight other smaller chalices, some curiously ornate, and weighing 94 ounces. FERETRA. A feretrum, silver and gilt, with four pillars and one steeple, wanting a pinnacle, having one joint of St. Laurence, and another of St. Simon, weighing 48 ounces.-Item. A feretrum of crystal, standing upon four pillars, with one plain foot, and a steeple in the height of the covering, ornate with red stones, and a round byral in the other end, with holy relicks.-Item. One great feretrum, silver and gilt, with one cross isle and one steeple in the middle and one cross in the top, with 20 pinnacles, and an ymage of our Lady in one end, and an ymage of Seynt Martin in the other; it is set in a table of wood, and a thing in the middle to put in the sacrament when it is born; weighing 503 ounces. CANDELABRA. A candlestick, silver and gilt, with dyvers ymages; it stands on great feet with four towers, with a pike of silver on either of them. Ex dono Wilk. de Longland.-Item. Eight great and fair candlesticks of gold; they stand on bases pierced through like windows, and curiously ornate with dyvers workings and chasings in each of them; weighing 642 ounces.-Item. Two candlesticks, silver gilt, with this scripture, Orate Sancti pro anima Ricardi Poure, quondam Episcopi Sarum.-Item. Four smaller candlesticks, with curious jewels and precious stones, the gift of Richard Durnford, with armes on the bases.-Item. One candlestick, silver, two knops and four stones wanting. PHILATERIA. One philatory of chrystal, standing upon four feet, silver and gilt, having a pinnacle in the height containing divers relicks. Item. One philatory, long, ornate with silver, having a knop of beryl in the middle of the height, standing on four feet, wanting a knop, and containing a tooth of St. Macarius.-Item. Three philatories, silver and gilt, with four feet like a bird, with five pinnacles, the sixth wanting; it is ornate with blue stones and beryls, and contains the jaw bone of St. Stephen, proto-martyr, and a finger of St. Agnes. TABERNACULA CUM RELIQUIIS. A tabernacle of ivory, standing upon four feet, with two leaves, and an ymage of our Lady in the middle, and the Salutation in one leaf, and the nativity of our Lady in the other.—Item. One tabernacle of ivory, with two leaves, gemmels and locks of silver, containing the coronation of our Lady.-Item. Two other tabernacles of wood ornate with silver, with the breast bone of St. Eugenius and dyvers precious relicks. AMPULLE CUM RELIQUIIS. An ampul of chrystal, with a foot and covering of silver, containing a toe of St. Mary Magdalene, of the gift of Johannes Royson.-Item. Another of chrystal, ornate in the foot and covering, silver and gilt, with one cross in the height, with blue stones, and containing a tooth of St. Anne.-Item. Six ampuls, having dyvers holy and precious relicks, as of St. Denys, St. Leonard, and Britius. THURIBULA. Two pair of censers, silver and gilt, of bossed work, with four chains of silver, and every one of them a boss with two rings, having six windows and six pinnacles; it weighs 42 ounces.-Item. Six pair of censers as before, wanting three pinnacles, two bosses broken and two rings.-Item. Four pair of censers, with leopards' heads, with windows, and pinnacles and chains, of the gift of Lady Hungerford.-Item. Two pair of censers, with leopards' heads, chains and bosses, and this scripture, Kyrie eleison, chryste eleison, of the gift of Jacobus Totworth. CHRISMATORIA. A chrismatory, silver and gilt, with four ymages and four buttresses, with two crosses and a crest.—Item. Three chrismatories, curiously enamelled, and having each two pots for oyl and cream, with a scripture, Memoriale Nicholai Bubwith.-Item. Two chrismatories, with pots. CASULE ET CAPE. A cope of white cloth of gold of baudekin, with an orphery of blue velvet, broidered with images and tabernacles of gold, having in the morse a lamb of silver, and in the hood the image of our Saviour.-Item. Ten chesibles of white baudekin, with leaves and hearts of gold; others of damask and flowers of gold, with dyvers albs and tunicles.-Item. Six copes of satin, ornate in curious wyse, having in the morse red and white roses of pearls. -Item. Six copes of white velvet, with griffins and crowns of gold, with orpherys of dyvers images, having in the morse the salutation of our Lady, and the coronation of our Lady in the back. Ex dono Raymondi Tysdale.— Item. Four chesibles of red cloth, of gold, with orpherys before and behind, set with pearls, blue, white, and red; and plates of gold enamelled; having two albes and one stole.-Item. Two chesibles of red silk, broidered with falcons and leopards of gold, with two tunicles and three albes; with divers stoles and fannons, some wanting an ammess. Ex dono Georgii Steane.-Item. Seven copes of red velvet, broidered with ymages and archangels, and also of kings and prophets, having in the morse a bishop sitting cum bacculo pastorali.—Item. Four copes of red velvet, broidered with stars of gold, and in the hood the ymage of our Lady, of the gift of Theophilus Debrisey.— Item. Many copes, powdered with lions, ostrages, troifoils, flower de luces, and dyvers armes, in number sixteen. MITRA. Four mitres, garnished with stones, in a curious wyse.-Item. Seven other mitres ungarnished, and not so good as the rest. PELVES. Four basons, with two stems in the middle, with trifoils within pounced, and chased in the midst, with a falcon of gold, with this scripture, Non nobis Domine, sed tuo nomini. Ex dono Johannes Sheppard.-Item. A fat of silver for holy water, the gift of Margaret Kirkeby; also a saucer, a squared sconce of silver, bordered with divers stones above and under; two phyals of silver; a calefactory, silver and gilt, with divers scriptures.—Item. Three fair basons, silver and gilt, chased with nine double roses in the circuit of one great rose, with a scripture, Orate pro anima Will. Normanton. SERTA. A garland of silver and gilt, set about with stones of divers colours, and a case with two knops, set with pearls.-Item. Four other garlands, ornate with stones, and set upon red velvet, wanting three points and eleven pearls. Ex dono Alicia Petow. PANNI PRO SUMMO ALTARI. A red cloth of gold, with falcons of gold and a frontlet of the same suit, with two altar cloths, one of diaper. -Item. A purpure cloth, with an ymage of the crucifix, Mary and John, and other ymages of gold, with a divers frontlet, having in every end two white leopards and two dragons facing them as going to engage, their tounges are done in curiousest wyse.—Item. A cloth of purpure and gold, with some white, with an ymage of our Lady, and St. Migell slaying Devils, his sword is of gold; there is also Hell and the flames, and the holy seynt dryving Satan into it, with a scripture: Orate pro anima Simonis Gandavensis.—Item. A cloth with white, with our Lady and her son represented in the clouds, and eight angels in a circle round them.-Item. A costly cloth of gold for the high altar, for principal feasts, with ymages of the Trinity, our Lady, the four Evangelists, the Patriarchs, and Prophets, with divers scriptures.-Item. A cloth white, with trifoils, having the salutation and coronation of our Lady in a red circle, and a frontlet of the same, with two cloths of diaper. Ex dono Edwardi Lougharne.—Item. A white cloth, damask, broidered with flowers of gold, having an ymage of the assumption of our Lady, and divers other ymages.-Item. A blue velvet, with ymages of souls coming out of purgatory on All Souls Day. Ex dono Richardi Cloterboke.-Item. Two cloths of red velvet, broidered with Catharine wheels, of divers lengths and breadths, with a frontlet of the same work, pertaining to one of the cloths.-Item. Two cloths of purpure colour, with beasts and birds; there are branches and leaves, and swans of gold, the gift of Philippa Dauntesey. MORSI. Four morses of copper and gilt, enamelled with images and fleur de luces.-Item. A morse, silver and gilt, and plated upon wood, like a quaterfoil.-Item. Two round morses, with an ymage of God the Father in the midst, embracing the Virgin Mary; in one side is our Saviour and St. Peter attending him.-Item. Four morses, silver and gilt, with gemmels and branches of vines; a large stone like a mannes eye is in one leaf; there is Eve eating the apple in another leaf, having sixty-eight stones of dyvers colours.-Item. A morse of silver and gilt, having the four Evangelists, with a king richly attired and four angels, with this scripture, Orate pro anima Georgii Carsidonii et Alicia uxoris suæ. TEXTUS EVANGELIORUM. A text after John, gilt with gold, and having precious stones and the relicks of dyvers seynts. Ex dono Huberti de Burgh Justiciarii Domini regis Henrici III.—Item. A text after Matthew, having ymages of St. Joseph and our Lady and our Saviour, all on a bed of straw; in every corner is the ymage of an apostle.—Item. A text after St. Mark, covvered with a plate of silver, having a crucifix, with Mary and John and two angels, one wanting both wings, and the crucifix wanting part of the left hand; and John wanting one of the hands; with a scripture, Ex dono Rogeri de Burwardescot.—Item. The texts of Lent and Passion, of which beginneth in the second leaf, and the third covered with linnen cloth with a red rose, with a scripture, Judica meam causam Domine. CASULE ET CAPE VIRIDIS COLORIS. A cope of green cloth of gold, with a goodly orphery, having in the morse a vernacle, and written in the hood Ex dono Thome Caverham.—Item. A chesible of green bawdkin, with two semacles and an orphery of needle work, and a crucifix with Mary and John.—Item. A cope of the same suit, with a precious orphery, with ymages in tabernacles and in the morse, God Almighty coming down to the blessed Virgin, who lies asleep.-Item. Another cope of green cloth of gold, with ymages and angels of Jesse; in the morse a face of mother of pearl, with the coronation of our Lady in the hood.-Item. Four chesibles of green bawdkin, with two tunicles of one suit, with trees and birds of gold, with three albes of dyvers sorts. No. II. ACCOUNT of the POSSESSIONS of the Episcopal See and Cathedral of Salisbury, Ditto .. 2261 16 22 1092 12 9 Nov. 26. A Tenement in Salisbury, to Thomas Boswell The Manor of Bishopston to John Oldfield and Matthew Cendrick March 24. The Manors of Keighaven and Dio, Hants, to Robert Cobham and July 12. The Lordship of Potterne to Gregory Clement The Manor of Chardstock, Dorset, to Lawrence Maydwell and John The Palace of Salisbury, to William and Joseph Barter 6065 1465 138 15 Sept. 28. A Fee Farm Rent of 2601. per ann. in Dorset, to Thomas Brown |