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rebuilt the Cloisters «which had been ‘pulled ‘down, for we have record of'a 
burial having taken place here about. this time (1243). Bishop Button II. 
(1267-1274) seems to have been the next Bishop of any particular note so 
far as the fabric is concerned. To funds and donations at his tomb may 
be attributed the comic figures on the capitals of the piers of the South 
Transept ; for being looked on as the holiest man of his time miracles were 
supposed to be worked at his tomb after death, and the offerings thereon 
were no doubt a fruitful source whence funds were procured for building 
purposes. Toothache seems to have been one of the ills which he is 
supposed to have cured, hence the heads representing every imaginable form 
of that malady. 
And thus showing great familarity with the architectural details, 
and with several references to Professor Willis and Dr. Freeman’s 
lectures, Mr. Irvine lucidly traced the history of the edifice ; but 
time was on the wing, and it was found necessary to move 
onward. Through the Cloister door, into the Palace grounds, 
and.around the -wet ramparts, the work of Ralph of Shrewsbury, 
Mr. Scarth conducted the Members. The once appropriate Latin 
line inscribed ‘by Bishop Law over the summer house seemed a 
mockery in.the then dripping rain :— 
Ie terrarum mihi preter omnes 
Angulus ridet ; ubi non’ Hymetto 
Mella decedunt, viridique certat 
Bacca venafro. 
Ver ubi longum, ‘tepidasque praebet 
Jupiter brumas, et amicus Aulon 
> Fertili Baccho minimum Falernis 
Invidet uvis. 
After much needed refreshment at the Swan, and the ‘passing 
of a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Irvine for his admirable ‘notes 
on the Cathedral, an adjournment was made'to the'Parish Church 
of St. Cuthbert, where the Vicar, the Rev. J. Beresford, kindly 
‘met the Members. The present Church dated from the thirteenth 
‘century, and was probably built by Bishop Jocelin in 1240, 
-though traces of an earlier Norman Church existed, Many altera- 
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