The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[45] Leet Book, 448-9.

[46] The chronicler, whose name—Walter of Coventry—seems to attest some local connection, was not a monk of this house. Stubbs, Pref. to Walter of Coventry (Rolls), I. xxii.-xxxiii.

[47] Jessopp, 138.

[48] Luard, Annales Monastici, iii. 90; i. 89-90.

[49] Dugdale, Monasticon (1846), iii. 178.

[50] Beresford, Diocesan Hist. Lichfield, 54.

[51] Beresford, Diocesan Hist. Lichfield, 78.

[52] Dugdale. Warw., i. 161. Rather an improbable story. More likely after Nunant's fall the monks found some one to plead their cause with the King.

[53] Beresford, 69.

[54] Which may be paraphrased: "I have but one diocese, and must I have but one cathedral?" (Beresford, 76).