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of these traditions being true, is greatly increased by the character of the inter- 

 laced ornaments, which are sculptured on the front of the tomb, and which are 

 obviously of the twelfth century, and similar in style to those on the base of 

 the stone cross now remaining in the cemetery adjacent to the Chapel, and with 

 which it is obviously cotemporaneous. I should further add, that the length and 



breadth of this tomb is such as to fit it exactly to the recess from which it is 

 said to have been removed. But, strong as these circumstances appear, there 

 is yet a fact to be stated, which may throw some doubt on the truth of these 

 traditions, or at least so far as they relate to the tomb having been that of the 

 founder of the church, namely, that, on the opening of the tomb, there was dis- 

 covered a crozier of exceedingly beautiful workmanship, and which, from its 



