58 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 
shortly to issue. Igrieve to hear ofthe fate of Edward the 
Elder, which is indeed ominous, as the founder of the Epis- 
copal Church of Wells,* and I earnestly hope the fragments 
are preserved and have not suffered much. It would be 
scandalous to leave it unrestored.f Pray offer my respects 
to your meeting, and my excuses for so jejune a description 
of the pride of Somersetshire.” 
In a later communication Mr. Cockerell said, ‘“ For those 
who observe the court calendar, Wells offers a very curious 
Peerage. Beside Henry II, in the north front, is Alicia, his 
* « Plesmundus tandem Cantuariensis cum anno 905, septem simul 
ordinaret Episcopos quorum tres in sedibus novis tunce erectis per Edwardum 
seniorem Regem sunt collocati ; Adelmus Abbas Glastoniensis in Epis- 
copatum Wellensem consecratus est. Adelmus igitur Episcoporum 
Wellensium primus fuit, qui cum annos sedisset decem, ad Archipraesulatum 
Cantuariensem hine translatus est.””—Godwin by Richardson, p. 364. 
« We have the number of seven bishops consecrated together by Pleg- 
mund; and as for the time, we must take Radulphus de Diceto’s account, 
who fixes it to the year 909. "The names of the consecrated prelates were, 
Fridstan, Bishop of Winchester, Werestun of Shereburn, Kenulph of Dor- 
chester, Beomock of Selsea, Athelm of Wells, Eadulph of Crediton, or 
Kirtan in Devonshire, and Athelstan of St. Petrox, or Padstow, in 
Cornwall. These three sees last mentioned were newly erected.” Collier’s 
Eccelesiastical History, vol. i. p. 404. 
Thus we see that, in the 10th century, a larger number of Episcopal 
Sees existed in the South Western parts of England than are to be found 
inthe 19th. The episcopal See of Dorchester was in Oxfordshire, not 
the capital of the County of Dorset. 
f This statue was, I am told, literally dashed to pieces, and it is much 
to be feared, thatif due care be not speedily taken, several other statues 
will be sacrificed. It is earnestly hoped that the dean and chapter 
and the gentlemen of the county will come forward, and that a 
special subscription will be entered into for their preservation. The 
slender shafts, formerly existing at the angles of the two centre 
buttresses, should be replaced, not only in order that the buttresses 
themselves may harmonize with the rest of the building, but that the 
statues in those particular spots may be the better guarded, 
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