On the north side of the church was a large, substantial, and heavy belfry. As it had been only partially applied to its original use since 1745, and as it greatly intercepted the most striking view of the structure, it was taken down, and the produce of the materials employed in making the repairs. Thus, on entering the cemetery, the eye is enabled to catch at one view the whole of the building, which appears on this side with peculiar grandeur and effect.

The fabric fund being found inadequate for the repairs which were deemed necessary, the dean and chapter, in 1808, contributed an eighth of their fines for the purpose. But this being still insufficient, a general chapter was held at Whitsuntide 1813, and the assembly granted two and a half per cent on all fines; the bishop and dean liberally concurring, not only with regard to their prebends, but also with regard to the lands held under their respective dignities.

The Diocese of Salisbury now comprises the counties of Wilts and Berks, and is divided into the three archdeaconries of Sarum or Salisbury, Wilts, and Berks.

The members of the cathedral establishment are the Dean, Precentor, the Chancellor of the diocese, and the Chancellor of the church, the Treasurer, the Archdeacons of Sarum, Wilts, and Berks, a Subdean and Subchanter, and forty-one Prebendaries, of whom six are residentiary, and called canons. These are elected by their own body except one, who is appointed by the bishop. Also four vicars choral, seven lay vicars or singing men, of whom one is organist, and eight choristers, besides inferior officers.

* The number was six till within the last forty years.

The bishop nominates to all the dignities except the deanry, as well as to all the prebends except that of Shipton, which is annexed to the professorship of civil law in the University of Oxford. He appoints also the subdean and subchanter.

To the bishop's peculiar jurisdiction belong Bishop's Lavington, Berwick St. James, Devizes, Marlborough, Potterne, Preshute, Trowbridge, Stert, and Staverton.

To the dean belongs the patronage of Godalmin, Chiddingfold, St. Nicholas at Guildford, in Surry; St. Mary's at Marlborough, Wokingham, Knook, Heytesbury, Mere, Wilts; Sunning, Ruscombe, Hurst, and Sandhurst, in Berkshire. To the chancellor, Odiham, Hants; Swinbrook cum Fifield and Idbury, Oxon; and Brixworth, Northamptonshire. To the precentor, Westbury, Wilts; to the treasurer, Figheldean, Alderbury, and Pitton, Wilts; and to the archdeacon of Wilts, the rectory of Minty.

The dean, precentor, chancellor, and treasurer enjoy episcopal jurisdiction; the archdeacons, subdean, and fourteen of the prebendaries archidiaconal, namely, Netherbury, Chisingbury and Chute, Grimston, Wilsford and Woodford, Netherhaven, Bishopston, Lyme Regis, Chardstock, Uffcombe, Combe and Harnham, Preston, Highworth, Durnford, Burbage, and Fordington and Writtlington.

To the dean's peculiars belong the Close of Salisbury, Baydon, Heytesbury, Hill Deverell, Horningsham, Hurst, Knook, Mere, Ramsbury, Ruscombe, Swallowcliff, Wokingham, Sunning, Sandhurst, Arborfield, Blewbury, Mere, Sherborne, Castletown, Woborne, Haydon, North Wotton, Long Barton, Holnest, Lillington, Thornford, Candlemarsh, Folke, Stockwood, Beere Hacket, Over and Nether Compton, Clifton, Maybrook, Ryme Intrinseca, Hermitage, Alton Pancras, Beere Regis, Winterbourne

Kingston, Anderston Thomson, Bloxworth, Turner's Piddle, and Charminster. The subdean has archidiaconal jurisdiction over the three parishes of St. Thomas, St. Edmund, and St. Martin, in Salisbury, and Stratford under the Castle. The dean and chapter, by their communar, have episcopal jurisdiction over Bishop's Cannings, Britford, Homington, Bramshaw, South Broom, or Devizes Green, and Stour Payne.

The rectory of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, is in the gift of the bishop; the perpetual cure of St. Thomas's, which was a chapel of ease to the cathedral, in that of the dean and chapter. The patronage of St. Martin's, which was formerly enjoyed by the dean and chapter, now belongs to H. P. Wyndham, Esq. of the College.

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THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH

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SARUM, OR SALISBURY.

PART III.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENTS.

1. ON the south side of the west entrance is a handsome marble monument, with a figure of Hibernia, executed by Rysbrack. It was erected to the memory of Thomas Lord Wyndham, of Finglass, in the kingdom of Ireland, youngest son of John Wyndham, of Norrington, in the county of Wilts, Esq. His lordship died the 24th of November, 1745, in the 66th year of his age.

2. On the north side of the west entrance is a monument of black marble, to the memory of Doctor Daubigny Turberville, a physician, highly celebrated in his day for his skill in treating disorders of the eyes. He died, at Salisbury, April 21, 1696, in his eighty-fifth year. His wife died December 15, 1694, aged eighty.

3. Upon the base between the pillars of the nave the following monuments are arranged:-On the south side, near the west end, is a plain coffin-fashioned tomb of Purbeck marble, conjectured to have been brought from Old Sarum, with the bones of bishop Herman, who died in 1078.

4. On the same side is the monumental effigy, in relief, of a bishop in pontificalibus, with a crosier piercing a dragon, and surrounded with a border of birds and foliage not inelegantly wrought. * The sculpture was cleared and brought into notice by Mr. C. Stothard, by whom the design for the annexed engraving was made. This stone is supposed to have been dedicated to the memory of bishop Joceline, whose body, according to the account of William de Wanda, was removed from Old Sarum in 1226. +

5. At the feet of the above is a monumental slab, of blue speckled marble, with the effigy of a bishop, likewise in relief, supposed to be that bishop Roger, and brought from the cathedral of Old Sarum. It was noticed by Leland, who preserved the inscription on the front of the robe; but Mr. Gough first discovered that round the edge, of which he has given the following account:-" On the perpendicular sides or edge all round is cut an inscription in large capitals; and on the front of the robe, another in letters, somewhat similar. The slab lay so deeply bedded in the stone foundation, on which the pillars of the nave rest, that the first of these inscriptions had entirely escaped the notice of the curious, or if any had noticed it, the lower half of the letters being out of sight, rendered it unintelligible. Last summer (1770) I procured it to be raised, and the pavement disposed round it, in such a manner, that it can henceforth receive no injury, but will remain the second oldest monument in the church, if the conjectures I have formed upon it are founded in truth."

The letters, which are similar to those found in manuscripts of the twelfth century, are described by Mr. Gough as a mixture of saxon and