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RIchard Poore sometimes Deane of Salisbury, was con∣secrate [ 1217] Bishop of Chichester, 1215. and remooued to Salisbury the yéere 1217. This Bishop considering the vn∣conuenient situation of his Cathedrall Sée in a place so 〈◊〉〈◊〉,
and bleake, as also wearied with the often insolencies and malapert demeanure of the soldiers that garded the Earles Castle; forsooke the same, and sending for diuers famous workemen from beyond the Seas, began the foundation of a new Church, in a place then called Meryfield. Pandulph the Popes Legate laid the fiue first stones, the first for the Pope, the second for the King, the third for the Earle of Salis∣bury, the fourth for the Countesse, and the fist for the Bishop. In this worke, though he had great helpe of the king, and di∣uers of the nobility, yet was he so farre from ending it, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉. yeeres after his departure, it was scarcely finished. The Townsmen of olde Salisbury they likewise remooued their habitation to the same place, and left the Castle all alone, which hauing béene the seate of the Earles of Salisbury ma∣ny yéeres, was giuen ouer into the Bishops hands about the yeere 1360. and in the time of king Henry the seuenth lette downe; so as now except a broken tower or two, and some péeces of walles, there is nothing of it remaining. This good Bishop was translated to Durham the yéere 1228. or as some deliuer 1225. See much more of him there.