WELLS CATHEDRAL. 27T 
must have been built in his day ; whereas, it really 
meant, new, but a little before the canon of Wells’s 
time, and in contra-distinction to the old Lady 
Chapel, which was existing in the time of the canon 
of Wells, and of which I shall speak by and bye. 
How the body of bishop Bitton got into the new 
Lady Chapel I cannot positively assert, some per- 
sons may think that formerly, the old church ex- 
tended far enough to take in the place where bishop 
Bitton lay. I scarcely think it did, for it is certain 
from all the old accounts, that the high altar near 
which Dudoc and Giso,* were buried, stood some- 
where in a line of the third arch of the choir reckon- 
ing from the east end. In all probability, the old 
church had an apsidal termination, with north and 
south chapelries ; but still the apse could not have 
extended in my opinion far enough into the present 
Lady Chapel, to take in any tomb of bishop Bitton’s 
there ; added to which, we have in the Liber Albus, 
a certain document of bishop Drokensford’s, which 
establishes new chantries to the Bittons in the 
(new) Lady Chapel, they before having had chan- 
tries in the old Lady Chapel. I think it most 
probable that he moved the body of bishop Bitton 
to his new work; with what idea—I will not venture 
to say ; only— we read concerning the tomb of one of 
the family “ Ubi nune presens fulget miraculis.” 
The building was going on, and contributions were 
* Bishop Dudoc was buried on the south, and bishop Giso, on the 
nortlı side of the old high altar. 
