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beautified still shelter the Dean who stands in his stead. The 
refectory in which he presided still speaks of the stately splendour 
of his old home. The church in which he worshipped still exists 
in most of its former beauty. And—most pathetic relic of all— 
there may still be seen in his cathedral the plain marble tomb, 
long voiceless, speaking now once more, beneath which all that is 
mortal of him rests! A curious custom grew up in later days in 
regard to this tomb, and was continued for centuries. It was 
used as the table whereon the tenants of the cathedral came each 
year to lay their tithes and rents. A strange usage !—and if it is 
not fanciful so to regard it, an act of unconscious homage from the 
tenants to the last representative of those old monks who had 
been their lords so long! 
