The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester / A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

by R. J. King

[68] Willis, p. 94.

[69] M. H. Bloxam.

[70] Willis.

[71] Willis, p. 97. The white oolite was obtained from Bredon Hill at Bath; the green stone from Higley on the Severn.

[72] That of St. Thomas de Cantilupe at Hereford—translated 1287; and of King Edward II. at Gloucester, circa 1330.

[73] Willis, p. 100.

[74] Willis, p. 102.

[75] Id., 103.

[76] Willis.

[77] “Et his ita gestis, sciscitatus est ab eo Abbas de Croestuna si ipsum mori contingeret, ubi vellet eligere sepulturam. Cui Rex respondens, dixit, Deo et Sancto Wlstano corpus et animam meam commendo. Qui postea in nocte quae diem sancti Lucæ Evangelistæ proxime sequuta est, ex hac vita migravit. Cujus corpus regio schemate ornatum ad Wigorniam delatum est; et in ecclesia Cathedrali ab Episcopo loci honorifice tumulatum.”—Matt. Paris, p. 288.