Bell's Cathedrals: St. David's

by Philip A. Robson

[38] See post, pp. 61, 62.

[39] McKenzie Walcott’s “St. David’s,” p. 17, and “Anglia Sacra,” vol. ii., p. 640.

[40] Two other doings by this Pope are worthy of passing notes. (1) Being a Frenchman, he was the first to make France a traditional ally of the Roman See. (2) He concluded the celebrated Concordat of Worms, 1122, by which the rights of the Roman Church in relation to the Crown were defined.

[41] Given as 1079 in “Anglia Sacra,” p. 649.

[42] “Brut y Twwysogion, sub annis.” Haddan and Stubbs, vol. i., p. 377.

[43] “Anglia Sacra,” p. 651: “Annales Cambriæ,” in ann. 1284.

[44] “St. Justinianus martir 5 die decembris in vigilia Sancti Nicholai; jacet in capella in ecclesia Sancti David sub ejus tumba, confessor Sancti David.”—Itinerarium Willielmi de Worcestre (Nasmyth, 1778, p. 164).

[45] “Anno MLXXXVI. Scrinium Sancti David de Ecclesiâ suâ furator, & juxta civitatem ex toto spoliator.”—Anglia Sacra, vol. ii., p. 649.

[46] Gale, “Scriptores,” vol. xv., p. 299.

[47] “Anno MCCLXXV. Incœptum fuit Feretrum Beati David in Ecclesiâ Menevensi.”—An. Sac., p 651.