SAVARIC, _Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury_ (1192-1205), a relation of the Emperor Henry VI. In 1191 he started with Richard I. for the Holy Land. At Messina, though not yet in priest's orders, he obtained private letters from the king sanctioning his appointment to any bishopric to which he might be elected. Bishop Reginald was a kinsman of his, and, on his election to Canterbury, he obtained the vote of the convent of Bath for Savaric. The Justiciar gave at once the royal sanction, in spite of the protests of the canons of Wells, who had not been consulted. Savaric had meanwhile wisely established himself at Rome, and was able to obtain the Pope's consent. He was consecrated priest one day and bishop the next, but he still remained abroad. Savaric, supported by the authority of King John, broke into Glastonbury with soldiers, starved and beat the monks, and, with great violence, established himself in possession. His biography was compressed in a clever epigram:-- "_Hospes erat mundo per mundum semper eundo, Sic suprema dies fit sibi prima quies,_" admirably translated by Canon Bernard: "Through the world travelling, all the world's guest, His last day of life was his first day of rest." Yet he was the first to institute the daily mass of Our Lady, as well as that for the faithful departed, in Wells Cathedral. JOCELIN TROTEMAN DE WELLES, _Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury,_ and after 1219 _Bishop of Bath_ (1206-1242), is, after Ken, the most famous of Wells worthies. He came from a local stock, and spent all his time and money on the cathedral church, first as canon, then as bishop for thirty-six years. In 1208, when Pope Innocent III. laid England under an interdict, the bishop published it in his own diocese, and then fled the country, leaving his estates to be seized by John. On John's submission to the Pope in 1213, he returned, and two years later stood by Stephen Langton at Runnymede, putting his name as Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury to _Magna Charta_. When John was dead it was Jocelin who administered the oath to Henry III. at his coronation.