124 MORTUARY CHAPELS, LICHFIELD. 



convenience of small tradesmen, labourers, and servants ; and 

 matins are now said here, at an early hour, by the students of 

 Lichfield Theological College. 



It ought not to be for me to add any humble words of mine 

 in connection with the scheme of restoring these chambers, 

 and their outer sepulchral adjuncts, in memory of the late 

 Bishop, but there certainly seems a singular beauty and ap- 

 propriateness in the proposed plan. I trust I shall not be thought 

 officious in venturing to hope that the scheme may include an 

 outer effigy of stone to rest beneath the central sepulchral recess, 

 and to suggest that the side recesses might be reserved for the 

 day — may it be very far distant — when God shall call away 

 those coadjutor bishops who so ably strengthened his hands in 

 both those dioceses over which the late Bishop was called to 

 preside. This corner of the Cathedral is redolent of the 

 memories of the finest of Lichfield's Bishops, and it has been 

 well chosen as the most suitable spot for the memorial of the 

 last of that noble bederoll who has joined the Church Triumphant. 

 S. Chad, Bishop Langton, Bishop Hacket, and Bishop Selwyn 

 seem to be the four most polished corners of the temple of this 

 grand historic diocese of the Catholic Church (from which we 

 of Derbyshire appear, alas ! to be destined to be cut off) : "they 

 rest from their labours, and their works do follow them " to the 

 courts above — but it adds to our pleasurable reminiscences of 

 their holy lives, to reflect that, so far also as their mortal 

 remains are concerned, it can be truly said that " in death they 

 were not divided." 



N.B. — Since these notes were put together, Bishop Hobhouse 

 found a most interesting entry of the year 1338, in the old 

 Chapter Register at the Bodleian. Canon Patrick, at that time, 

 was granted, at his own petition, the middle of the three outer 

 tombs on the south side of the Lady Chapel, on condition that 

 he should be mindful of the fabric in his will. This entry 

 proves that the Lady Chapel was not then finished, but com- 

 pleted so far as the tombs were concerned. Robert Patrick 

 was Archdeacon of Stafford, 1322-3, Prebendary of Pipa-Parva, 

 1313-1324, and Prebendary of Gaia-Minor, 1324-32. His 



