[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. [78] Leland (Itin.) thus notices the tomb:--“In presbyterio, Johannes Rex, cujus sepulchrum Alchirch, sacrista, nuper renovavit.” The time at which Alchirch was sacristan has not been ascertained, but it cannot have been long before Leland’s visit. [79] M. H. Bloxam, “On the Sepulchral Remains and Monuments in Worcester Cathedral,” read before the Archæological Institute at Worcester, in 1862. (Gent. Mag., Oct., 1862.) [80] Bloxam. [81] Id. [82] M. H. Bloxam. [83] Id., Gent. Mag., Oct., 1862. [84] Willis, p. 106. [85] Bloxam. [86] Bloxam. [87] Id. [88] Bloxam. [89] Id. [90] Gent. Mag., Sept. 1862. “It was said to be for the purpose of the monks conferring with each other; but he had seen such openings in places where no such construction could be put upon them.” [91] Willis, p. 90. [92] An account of this synod, drawn up by Wulfstan himself, is printed in the _Anglia Sacra_. The Dean of Chichester thus translates the commencement:--“I, Wulfstan, by the grace of God Bishop of Worcester, determined to hold a synod in the Minster of St. Mary’s, in the crypt of the church, which I built from the foundations, and by the mercy of God afterwards consecrated. This synod was held in the year of our Lord 1092, the fifteenth indiction. There were assembled all the wisest men invited from the three shires in our diocese, Worcester, Gloucester, and Warwick; because that I, being full of days, sensible of my bodily weakness, and perceiving the end of my life approaching, was desirous of disposing canonically the ecclesiastical affairs committed to our charge, and by their wise concert, of correcting and amending whatever required amendment.”