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XXIX. Conjectures on an antient Tomb in Salisbury Cathedral. By Mr. Gough
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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On the south side of the nave of Salisbury cathedral, under the fourth arch from the west, lies a monument of blue speckled marble, with the figure of a bishop in pontificalibus, his right hand lifted up to give the blessing, his left hand holding the crosier. 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 to 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 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 that church, if the conjectures I have formed upon it are founded in truth.
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page 188 note [a] See Plate xiii. fig. 1. It somewhat resembles the figure of bishop Leodegarus in Montfaucon's Mon. de la Monarch. Franc. I. 31.
page 188 note [b] Horsley, Brit. Rom. p. 355. Scot. xxxv. On the military monuments at Bonne, Phil. Trans. LIX. p. 195. Acta Acad. Palat. III. 56.
page 188 note [c] Baron, vol. I. p. 386.
page 189 note [d] N° IV. p. 26.
page 189 note [e] Tan. Not. Mon 596. Dugd. Mon. Ang. I. 620, 621. Upon enquiry, in 1772, after this curious monument in order to verify it. I had the mortification to learn that it had lately been broken to pieces to mend the loads. I have since heard it is preserved at Lacocke. but have not been able to procure a copy of it. I have therefore caused the Magazine copy, such as it is, to be inserted in the annext plate, fig. 2.
page 189 note [f] Pl. xiii. fig. 3.
page 189 note [g] See Mons. Lancelot's Memoirs on these two inscriptions, in Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. vol. xii. p. 264. 12.no.
page 189 note [h] Loc. cit.
page 190 note [i] Itin. vol. III. f. 64. p. 91, last edit. This was the only inscription that diligent Antiquary observed on this monument. He places the two bishops of Old Sarum in the North isle. In Bor. insula navis ecol' sepulebra duorum episcoporum, ut autumant, veteris Sarum.
page 190 note [k] Hist. Nov. L. II. f. 104. See Godwin de Praes. ed. Richardson, p. 337, 338.
page 191 note [l] Malnisb. de. Henrico I. Lib. v. f. 91.
page 191 note [m] Loc. cit.
page 192 note [n] Lib. I. c. 6
page 193 note [p] Note on his life, by Godwin. The tomb which the vergers shew for his, is that in the north wall of the presbytery. See plate xiii. fig. 5. But this rather belongs to some earlier bishop of the new see.
page 193 note [q] William de Wenda, who wrote the account of the building the present church, mentions the removal of only three bishops from old Sarum, in 1226. Osmund, Roger, and Josceline. Price's account of Salisbury cathedral, p. 15.
page 193 note [r] See plate xiii. fig. 4.