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still remain above the stone groining added to the roof at 

 a later day. 



In 1093 the new cathedral was finished, being the long- 

 est in England except St. Albans, and the relics of St. 

 Swithun and a host of other saints were stored within it. 

 William of Malmesbury describes how, in the year 1100, 

 some countrymen were seen coming from the west, 

 driving a frail cart towards the new church ; and ever as 

 they went blood dripped from it by the way, for it held 

 the body of the slaughtered King of England. Him the 

 monks huddled into the earth below Walkelin's great 

 tower, with much shame and little sorrow, for William 

 Rufus had died unshriven of his violence, profanity, and 

 sensuality. The horror of him was so profound that 

 nobody greatly marvelled when, seven years later, the 

 tower fell in with a crash upon the tyrant's tomb. The 

 beautiful gray tower — the same that gives Winchester 

 at this day its crown of glory — was built immediately, 

 with greatly strengthened piers of which the foundations 

 are no longer endangered by the ashes of the Red King. 

 The eye of one visiting the cathedral for the first time is 

 sure to be attracted by a row of large painted chests, set 

 on the top of the screen built round the presbytery in 

 the sixteenth century. These contain the bones of many 

 kings, queens, saints, and distinguished persons. In one 

 of them repose in strange companionship the remains of 

 Cnut and his Queen Emma, of William Rufus and the 

 Bishops Wina and Alwin. So the inscription on one 

 side of the chest informs us; on the other side is the 

 explanation of such a curious arrangement — namely 

 that ' sacrilegious barbarism ' having mingled the dust 

 of princes and prelates in the year 1642, all that could 



