Jocelin, 1142—1184. 191 
“ Affer opem, devenies in idem,’—“Give help [7.e., with your 
prayers, an equivalent to Orate pro anima}, you will come to the 
same,”’—-is his. A mere glance at the well authenticated seal of 
Bishop Jocelin, of which Dodsworth gives us an engraving,’ is itself 
a strong confirmation. Moreover there are expressions, in the 
inscription round the slab, referring to his noble birth, which can 
apply only to him. 
One other link in the chain of evidence I should like to supply, 
The name of the old city is spelt in the inscription not “ Saresberie ” 
but “Salesberie.” Now the period of that change—when the L 
first of all overlapped and afterwards superseded the R—was towards 
the middle and latter part of the twelfth century, in fact about the 
time ef Bishop Jocelin’s decease. A solitary coin of Stephen has 
the mint mark as Satis.; afterwards, in the time of Henry II. 
(that is during Jocelin’s episcopate) the name of the place is com- 
monly spelt with an L instead of R. This may seem but a trifle, 
and must only go for what it is worth. But to an eye accustomed 
in early documents to see the R, in the name Sarisberie (as it is 
_ spelt in Domesday), it marks a period, the date of which is easily 
ascertained, when that R passes into L. And that period synchron- 
a 
izes fairly well with the decease of Bishop Jocelin. The inscription, 
_ —I quote from Dodsworth—which is in Latin Hexameters, with 
frequent rhymes both at the end and in the middle of several verses, 
is as follows :— 
“ Flent hodie Salesberie quia decidit ensis 
Justitia, pater ecclesiz Salesberiensis : 
Dum viguit miseros aluit, fastusque potentum 
Non timuit, sed clava fuit terrorque nocentum 
De Ducibus de nobilibus primordia duxit 
Principibus, propeque tibi qui gemma reluxit.” 
_ Jt may be freely Englished thus: “They mourn to-day at Sales- 
_ berie because there has fallen the sword of justice, the Father of the 
Church of Salesberie. Whilst he lived he sustained the oppressed 
and wretched, and feared not the arrogance of the powerful, but himself 
was the scourge ((it. club) and terror of the guilty. He traced his 
‘ancestry from Dukes and noble Princes, who shone near thee as a 
precious gem.” [To be Continued.] 
1 History of Salisbury Cathedral, p. 196, 
