In the year 1088, the Norman barons who had risen to support the cause of Robert of Normandy against the Red King, attacked Worcester. “The venerable Bishop Wulfstan,” says the Saxon Chronicle, “was sorely troubled in his mind, because the castle had been committed to his keeping. Nevertheless, the men of his household went out with a few men from the castle, and through God’s mercy, and through the Bishop’s deserts, slew and captured five hundred men, and put all the others to flight[109].” Wulfstan died, at a great age, in 1095, and was interred in his new cathedral. He was unquestionably one of the best and worthiest of the later Saxon bishops. The fullest and most important life of Wulfstan is that by William of Malmesbury, printed in the second volume of Wharton’s _Anglia Sacra_. A very interesting notice of his “Life and Times,” by the Dean of Chichester, will be found in the twentieth volume of the Archæological Journal. Early in 1201, miracles were reported at the tomb of Wulfstan[110]. They continued throughout the year, fifteen or sixteen persons being healed daily, as it was asserted. On St. Giles’s Day, (Sept. 1,) 1202, Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury came, with other bishops, to Worcester, to enquire into the truth of the reported miracles. Certain monks of Worcester went to Rome with their report; and in the following year (1203) St. Wulfstan was duly canonized by the Pope, Innocent III. King John more than once performed his devotions, and made his offerings, before the shrine of the new saint; and in the hour of his death at Newark (October, 1216,) he commended his body and soul to “God and to St. Wulfstan.” He was buried in the cathedral. In 1218 the restored church (see Pt. I. § I.) was dedicated in honour of St. Mary and St. Peter, and of the Confessors Oswald and Wulfstan; and the relics of St. Wulfstan were translated into a new shrine. Miracles are again frequently recorded. Edward I. entertained a “special affection” for St. Wulfstan; and, besides many other visits, came to worship before his shrine in December, 1273, after the conquest of Wales[111]. The shrine of St. Wulfstan was placed, together with that of St. Oswald, in front of the high altar, one on either side. (See Pt. I. § IX.) [A.D. 1096-1112.] SAMSON, a canon of Bayeux, succeeded Wulfstan; “non parvæ literaturæ vir,” says Malmesbury, “nec contemnendæ facundiæ; antiquorum homo morum; ipse liberaliter vesci, et aliis dapsiliter largiri[112].” His elder brother, Thomas, was Archbishop of York; and a son of Bishop Samson (at what time born is not evident) became also Archbishop of York in 1109, during his father’s lifetime. Another son, Richard, was Bishop of Bayeux from 1108 to 1133.