[139] Castrum de Somerton curiosissimé ædificavit.—Grayst. c. 22.
[140] Ibid.
[141] “Ante illum enim ob reverentiam corporis S. Cuthberti non est permissum corpus mortuum ingredi ecclesiam Dunelmensem.” Anthony Bek was, therefore, the first who dared to bring
“A slovenly, unhandsome corse,
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.”
[142] If, however, the funeral of the patriarch Bishop was conducted with the same solemnities as that of his successor Cardinal Langley, the breaking an entrance through the wall was a matter of necessity rather than superstition, for Langley’s hearse was drawn into the nave of the cathedral by four stately black horses, which, with all their housings of velvet, become the official perquisite of the sacrist.
[143] John Hay Allan, Esq.
[144] MacPhadian’s.
[145] In this instance, it would rather seem that Henry has merely preserved the name as he found it latinized by Blair.
[146] Book vii. l. 660.
[147] Book vii. l. 674.