182 ' Bishops of Old Sarum. 
convincing proof that ¢his is the memorial of Roger’s successor, 
Bishop Jocelin. It follows, therefore, that the other cannot be that 
of Bishop Roger. I am sorry to scatter to the winds another well- 
worn tale. But as sepulchral effigies are seldom found before the 
middle of the twelfth century, I am inclined to think, that, if Roger 
has any memorial at all in the present Cathedral, it is rather to 
be sought in one of those flat stone coffin-lids with a cross upon it, 
of which there are several lying in the Cathedral. In fact in the 
“ Ichnographical Plan” of our Cathedral printed by Mr. Chambers, 
the Recorder of Salisbury, from one of the date of 1733—the 
oldest one, as far as I know, which shews an arrangement of 
the interior—it is distinctly said that Roger’s monumental slab was 
a plain stone with a cross, and it is marked as lying underneath a 
shallow recess in the wall in the north-east part of the Cathe- 
dral.t 
Bishop Roger was undoubtedly a great statesman, but, making 
every allowance for the exaggerated statements of partizans, he 
certainly left behind him no cherished memory of his work as a 
Bishop of the Church of Christ. In truth, other Bishops too often 
involved themselves in worldly matters, to the neglect of their own 
high and proper vocation, after his example.? And his own Church 
at Sarum, though, in its calendar of obits, it had special days of 
commemoration for Osmund his predecessor, and also for Jocelin 
who succeeded him, gave no place therein, as far as we know, to the 
memory of—Bishop Roger. 
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tThere also, in Price’s time, (1774,) the monument reputed to be that of 
Bishop Roger would seem to have been lying, for he speaks of him as having 
been ‘buried within an arch of the north aisle.” In an early MS. note to an 
original edition (1615) of Godwin’s ‘ Praesules” Dr. Milner found the following 
passage :—‘‘ In the body of the Church under the third arch from the tomb 
of Bishop Roger was the altar called de missa matutinali where the early 
private service was performed, &c.” This was no doubt the first of the eastern 
chapels in the north-east transept. 
2 Episcopi temporis hujus se negotiis secularibus immiscentes et comitatus 
affectantes, seu vicecomitatus, vel castellaneos, Rogerum quondam bone me- 
morie Sarisberiensem episcopum reyocent ad memoriam. R. de Diceto, 
p. 652. 
