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his corpse, according to the fashion of the age, was 

 immediately removed to the cathedral of New Sarum. 

 The day was stormy, and loud gusts of wind, accom- 

 panied with heavy rain, swept over the open downs, but 

 still the funeral train went on, with its long, long line 

 of torches, for it might not be that the corpse of one who 

 had been so great on earth, should remain from out the 

 sacred walls of the cathedral which he had founded. It 

 was about a mile from the castle to the church, and a 

 multitude of people followed ; some were loud in their 

 lamentations, others wept silently as they went ; for the 

 earl had been a kind master, and it seemed hard that he 

 should so soon be taken from them, who had but just 

 returned to his home. They remembered, too, that only 

 eight weeks before, and at the same hour of the day, he 

 had passed through the wide portals of the magnificent 

 cathedral to offer praises and thanksgivings for his 

 preservation and safe return ; that on the very spot 

 where he was then received in procession by the clergy, 

 with great demonstrations of joy,* the same company was 

 coining forth to meet him, who was now being borne a 

 corpse before them; for the bier was met at the western 

 door by the bishop and the neighbouring chieftains, with the 

 cathedral clergy, choristers, and precentor, chanting in 

 Latin as they passed up the nave, the same funeral 

 service which is now chanted in English, on occasions 

 of public funerals within the walls of cathedrals. 

 * Chron. of W. de Wanda. Wilkin's Concilia, vol. I page 559. 



