WELLS CATHEDRAL. 87 
dieation. Dean Husee lies buried there. South,— 
beyond that, is the chapel of St. Martin (and others), 
connected with the De Lillesdon tombs. Before 
chancellor Storthwait’s tomb was placed in this 
chapel, there was a door there. —It led to the old 
Lady Chapel,in which were several altars —one to St. 
Nicholas. This Lady Chapel was built, if not by 
Joceline de Wells, by William Bitton,(Lib. Alb. 124, 
A.D. 1227). It had another entrance from the clois- 
ters, and was called Cap: B: Virg: intra Cloist: Itis 
evident that Joceline found no chapel ofthe Blessed 
Virgin in which mass was celebrated; for on his 
coming to the See, as one of his first acts, he ordered 
a mass of the Blessed Virgin to be said every day at 
the high altar. ‘The document remains in the Lib. 
Alb. Allthe Bitton’s chantries were in this chapel, 
as were most of those of bishops Beckington and 
Bubwith. This lady chapel and the altar of St. 
Martin appear to have been under the charge ofa 
prior, (Lib. Rub.) There are constant references in 
Lib. Alb. to this chapel, and I went into Miss Par- 
fitt's garden to see if I could make it out; it is not 
very difficult to do so, on tryingthe ground.* The 
only other chantry to be noticed was one formerly of 
wood, dedicated originally to St. Edmund, built in 
its present form by Hugh Sugar, the executor of 
Bishop Beckington, identified by the tomb of Ralph 
* This Lady Chapel was rebuilt by bishop Stillington, a. ». 1474, 
and pulled down afterwards by a Sir John Gates, who (Godwin says,) 
lost his head for his impiety. 
