Salisbury Cathedral Archive Catalogue: Chapter
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Salisbury Cathedral Archive Catalogue: Chapter Please note that the catalogue is in the process of development and will be updated periodically as new items are catalogued. Older document reference numbers have been recorded in the full catalogue entry maintained by the archivist. For enquiries please contact the archivist directly. Reference Level Title & Description Date CH Series Chapter CH/1 sub-series Chapter Act Books & Minutes Chapter Act books are not minutes of discussions but are registers of decisions taken, or actions done and which can also include records of installations of deans and prebendaries, assignments of chapter employees, decisions about services, leases of properties and orders involving much of the minutiae of chapter administration. The 1319 statutes of Bishop Martival laid down that a sworn notary should be appointed for the purpose of keeping regular chapter records and that a residentiary canon should be elected annually to act as a 'custos mumimentorum'. These provisions were not immediately or completely effective, although notes of admissions of canons and other capitular acts for the years 1319-26 are found in Liber C. Towards the end of Liber C, ff 452-8 are contains 'Chapter Acts' 1320-1324. The early Chapter Act books are named after the Chapter Clerks. CH/1/1 item Chapter Act Book 1329-1352 Known as Hemingsby. The first entry in the act book is dated November 1329 but it was not until 1331 that the register began to be regularly kept. There is a select table of contents arranged in two columns, the work of the chancellor and communar, Richard Drake, in 1668. The original intention seems to have been to arrange the items according to subject rather than to date; but, although some attempt was made to keep separate records of admission of canons and vicars, the initial plan was not generally adhered to, with the result that the arrangement of the contents as a whole appears somewhat haphazard. Each entry has its own contemporary marginal heading, and there are, in addition, numerous marginalia in many different hands and of many different periods. Published by the Records Branch of the Wiltshire Record Society, Volume XVIII, 1963, edited by Helena M Chew. The contents of the books is transcribed by not translated, also contains extensive biographical notes. 1 CH/1/2 item Chapter Act Book 1348-1358 CH/1/3 item Chapter Act Book 1385-1387 CH/1/4 item Chapter Act Book 1387-1408 Appears to cover the period 1387-1395 and then 1407-1408. CH/1/5 item Chapter Act Book 1395-1402 CH/1/6 item Chapter Act Book 1402-1404 CH/1/7 item Chapter Act Book 1408-1413 CH/1/8 item Chapter Act Book 1413-1418 CH/1/9 item Chapter Act Book 1419-1435 CH/1/10 item Chapter Act Book 1440-1447 CH/1/11 item Chapter Act Book 1447-1457 CH/1/12 item Chapter Act Book 1461-1467 CH/1/13 item Chapter Act Book 1468-1475 CH/1/14 item Chapter Act Book 1497-1563 These two are bound together. Howard's memorials are dated 1497-1525 and Holt and Blacker are dated 1538-1563. CH/1/15 item Chapter Act Book 1563-1606 These two are bound together. Blacker is dated 1563-1588 and Mortimer 1603-1606. CH/1/16 item Chapter Act Book 1588-1599 CH/1/17 item Chapter Act Book 1622-1642 CH/1/18 item Chapter Act Book 1660-1675 CH/1/19 item Chapter Act Book 1675-1696 CH/1/20 item Chapter Act Book 1696-1741 CH/1/21 item Chapter Act Book 1741-1796 CH/1/22 item Chapter Minutes 1796-1813 CH/1/23 item Chapter Minutes 1813-1834 CH/1/24 item Chapter Minutes 1834-1851 CH/1/25 item Chapter Minutes 1852-1864 CH/1/26 item Chapter Minutes 1864-1877 CH/1/27 item Chapter Minutes 1878-1889 2 CH/1/28 item Chapter Minutes 1889-1899 CH/1/29 item Chapter Minutes 1899-1909 CH/1/30 item Chapter Minutes 1909-1917 CH/1/31 item Chapter Minutes 1918-1924 CH/1/32 item Chapter Minutes 1916-1925 CH/1/33 item Chapter Minutes 1926-1934 CH/1/34 item Chapter Minutes 1935-1942 CH/1/35 item Chapter Minutes 1943-1948 CH/1/36 item Chapter Minutes 1948-1953 CH/1/37 item Chapter Minutes 1953-1956 CH/1/38 item Chapter Minutes 1956-1958 CH/1/39 item Chapter Minutes 1959-1964 CH/1/40 item Chapter Minutes 1965-1970 CH/1/41 item Chapter Minutes 1971-1974 CH/1/42 item Chapter Minutes 1975-1978 CH/1/43 item Chapter Minutes 1978-1981 CH/1/44 item Chapter Minutes 1981-1984 CH/1/45 item Chapter Minutes 1985-1987 CH/1/46 item Chapter Minutes 1988-1991 CH/1/47 item Chapter Minutes 1991-1995 CH/1/48 item Chapter Minutes 1995-1997 CH/1/49 item Chapter Minutes 1998-2000 CH/1/50 item Chapter Minutes 2001-2002 CH/1/51 item Chapter Minutes 2003-2005 CH/1/2012 item Chapter Minutes 2012 All signed minutes. Also includes joint meetings between Chapter and Cathedral School governors. CH/1/2013 item Chapter Minutes 2013 All signed minutes. 3 CH/1/2014 item Chapter Minutes 2014 All signed minutes. Also includes joint meetings between Chapter and Cathedral School governors. CH/1/2015 item Chapter Minutes 2015 All signed minutes. CH/2 sub-series Loose Chapter Acts CH/2/1 item Election of Chapter Clerk 1665 Chapter acts concerning the election of Chapter Clerks. Two items dated 27th March 1665 and 22nd July 1665. CH/2/2 item Vicars Choral, Declarations in Ejectment 1671 The acts chiefly concern declarations in ejectment to be made by Vicars Choral against the people holding Vicars' options. List of names of Vicars' Choral involved given. Three items dated 4th July 1671, 6th July 1671 and 2nd August 1671. CH/2/3 item Loose Chapter Acts 1725-1730 CH/2/4 item Loose Chapter Acts 1755-1771 CH/3 sub-series Private Chapter Meetings CH/3/1 item Minute Book 4 Jan 1877- 3 Dec 1881 CH/3/2 item Minute Book 3 Jan 1882- 14 Jul 1889 CH/3/3 item Minute Book 16 Aug Includes two letters from Edward Waters regarding the Town Mill house. Prospectus for the Choristers' 1889-24 School, extract from minutes of chapter meeting held on 3rd November 1890 re the salary of Edward Oct 1893 Earle Dorling, Master of the Choristers' School, a report titled "Suggestions for the Laymen of Salisbury Cathedral", two letters addressed to Archdeacon Lear dated 16th January and 24th February 1893 regarding the collection of rents, and a latter from Arthur W Blomfield to the Dean regarding the redecoration of the Lady Chapel dated 31st October 1894 4 CH/3/4 item Minute Book 4 Nov 1893- Letter dated 29th June 1900, from Sir Arthur Blomfield in which he refers to his first visit to the 5 Jun 1899 Cathedral in his capacity as the Cathedral's Architect referring to various alterations and improvements in the Cathedral. Letter to Archdeacon Lear dated 27th June 1894 regarding rent for the Town Mill. Draft resolution re lease of houses in the Close belonging to the Fabric Fund. Receipt sent to Rev Canon Bernard for monies towards the Church Day Schools Association. CH/3/5 item Minute Book 1 Jul 1899- Printed letter addressed to parishioners and friends requesting subscriptions for the Britford Church 8 Sep 1903 Tower Restoration Fund. CH/3/6 item Minute Book Sep 1923- Includes loose leaflet 'Memorandum for the Members of the Greater Chapter'. 14 Jul 1927 CH/4 sub-series Additional Chapter Minute Books CH/4/1 item Minutes of Chapter 1862-1873 Includes printed report of Bishop Hamilton's Memorial Fund for the restoration of the Choir, brief accounts concerning the Choristers' School CH/4/2 item Minutes of Chapter 1927-1935 CH/5 sub-series Draft Chapter Acts & Minute Books CH/5/1 item Draft Chapter Acts 1588-1597 CH/5/2 item Draft Chapter Acts 1596-1602 CH/5/3 item Draft Chapter Acts 1604-1605 Three draft chapter acts: admission of a lay vicar, March 1604/5; provision of a lecture or sermon by the Chancellor, 1605: the Communar to hand in rolls of accounts, 1605. 5 CH/5/4 item Draft Chapter Acts 1621-1629 Mainly dated to 1622. Description according to 'Guide to the Records of the Bishop etc' page 113 held at WSHC: These include monitions to canons to pay the stipends of vicars choral and to clergy of the diocese to pay subsidies, various cause papers, chapter minutes, a not of implements found at Leadenhall on a view thereof, a marriage licence bond, mandates for installing prebendaries, copy probate of will, letters (and copies), bound of indemnity from vicar of Britford and presentation to Britford. CH/5/5 item Draft Chapter Acts 9.7.1677- Loose draft pages of Chapter Acts or notes concerning Chapter meetings dated between 1677 and 1680 12.8.1720 and then 1719 to 1720. CH/5/6 item Draft Chapter Acts Apr 1685- Jan 1686 CH/5/7 item Draft Chapter Acts Apr 1692- Jul 1692 CH/5/8 item Draft Chapter Acts 1696-1701 Includes a petition from a doctor living in the Close that he should have a key for getting in and out at night, which is granted. CH/5/9 item Draft Minutes of Chapter Meeting 9th October 1721 9 10 1721 Single sheet containing possible rough or draft minutes of a Chapter meeting on 9th October 1721.