[93] See Mr. Albert Way’s paper on “The Tradition of Flaying Inflicted in Punishment of Sacrilege,” Archæological Journal, vol. v. The Worcester doors are said to have been fixed originally in the west entrance, and to have been removed thence by Bishop Wakefield. The Dean of Chichester (Life of Wulfstan, p. 7,) remarks that the west side of the cathedral, fronting the Severn, was that from which a Danish attack might naturally be expected; and suggests that the doors are as old as the eleventh century, when the citizens of Worcester, like other Englishmen, resisted the imposition of the Danegelt, and killed (May, 1041) Feadu and Thurstan, the huscarls of Hardicanute, who had been sent to Worcester to collect it. Their skins may have been stretched on the church doors. In the following November a Danish army plundered the town and ruined the cathedral, from which the monks had fled. The sight of the skins, it is suggested, may have been the especial cause of this latter act of vengeance. [94] Report of Professor Willis’s Lecture in Gent. Mag., Sept. 1862. [95] J. H. Parker, Gent. Mag., Oct. 1862. Professor Willis considered the hall to be “in so ruinous a state that the expense of restoring it would have been greater than justifiable on such an object (especially as there would have been no use for it when done), and the Dean and Chapter had to keep up and maintain the cathedral in a state worthy of its original purpose.”--_Gent. Mag._, Sept. 1862. [96] Rev. C. H. Hartshorne. [97] See Kemble, Sax. in England, i. p. 300; and Exeter Cathedral, Pt. II. [98] Bede, Hist. Eccles., 1. iv. c. 23. [99] Archbishop Theodore died in 690. The see of Canterbury remained vacant for two years after his death. [100] Bede _ut sup._ [101] Raine’s Lives of the Archbishops of York, p. 123. [102] Lingard’s Anglo-Saxon Church, ii. 294, quoted and accepted by Kemble. [103] Lingard, ut sup. On the whole question of the dispute between the secular and regular clergy, see the excellent chapter on “The Clergy and Monks” in Kemble’s “Saxons in England,” vol. ii. [104] Dr. Hook, Life and Times of Wulfstan; Archæological Journal, vol. xx. [105] Raine’s Archbishops of York, p. 150. [106] “Qui non ita hebes in literis ut putabatur, cætera sciebat, præter fabulas poetarum, et tortiles syllogismos dialecticorum, quæ nec nosset, nec nosse dignaretur.”--_W. Malmes._, _De Gest. Pontif._, l. iv. [107] “Nusquam enim in villis suis aulas, nusquam triclinia fecit. Nimirum qui non solum in istis forensibus, sed etiam in Ecclesiis operosâ gravaretur architecturâ. Magis enim deputabat talia humanæ pompæ et jactantiæ quam divinæ voluntati et gratiæ.”--_W. Malmes._, _Vita S. Wulfstan._, l. iii. cap. 10.