of England made the sweeter and the handsomer for this humble and heavenly stranger. The later history need not detain us long. His body was moved, says Thomas Wykes in the _Annales Monastici_, in the year 1219. Perhaps--and this is a mere guess--the place where his body lay was injured at the time of the battle and capture of Lincoln two years before; and for better protection the coffin was simply placed unopened in that curious position two-thirds into the wall of the apse foundation, where it was found in our day. In 1220 he was canonized by Pope Honorius III., who was then at Viterbo organising a crusade, after a report vouching for the miracles drawn up by the great Archbishop Stephen Langton and John of Fountains, a just and learned man, afterwards Treasurer of England. Sixty years later, that is to say, in 1280, John Peckham, the pious friar archbishop, Oliver Sutton, the cloister-building Bishop of Lincoln, and others, among them King Edward I. and his good wife Eleanor, opened the tomb and lifted out the body into a shrine adorned with gold and jewels and placed it upon a marble pedestal in the Angel Choir, either where the modern tomb of Queen Eleanor now stands or just opposite. The head came away and sweated wonder-working oils, and was casketted and placed at the end of the present Burghersh tombs, as a shrine of which the broken pedestal and the knee-worn pavement are still to be seen. The body was placed in a shrine cased with plates of gold and silver, crusted with gems, and at the last protected by a grille of curious wrought iron. A tooth, closed in beryl with silver and gilt, appears as a separate item in the Reformation riflings. The history of both shrines and of the bones they held is a tale by itself, like most true tales ending in mystery. Perhaps, as King Henry VIII. had not much veneration for holy bones, but, like our enlightened age, much preferred gold, silver, and jewels, his destroying angels may have left the relics of Hugh's forsaken mortality to the lovely cathedral, where his memory, after seven centuries, is still pathetically and tenderly dear. FOOTNOTES: {27} Which alone still survives. {28} Dunstan, Alphege, Lanfranc, Anselm, and others presumably. {29} Roger de Roldeston, William de Blois, and Richard of Kent. {30} November 18, 1200. {31} Possibly on the site where St. Hugh's chapel now stands in desolation. {32} _A boreali ipsius aedis regione_, not of the cathedral, but of the new honeycomb apse, please. The Gresham Press UNWIN BROTHERS, WOKING AND LONDON. * * * * * Transcriber's note A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected; they and other possible errors are listed below. Inconsistent hyphenation: nowadays (now-a-days), brushwood (brush-wood), footprints (foot-prints) Chapter I "Under the smoothe" corrected to "Under the smooth". Chapter II "seiges of Milan" not changed. "beseiges their city" not changed.