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The slab became loose a few years ago and was removed for re- 

 fixing, and I examined the grave and failed to find any trace of 

 chalice, paten, or pastoral staff, whicli might be expected in the 

 grave of a bishop. The skeleton was not disturbed and T am 

 inclined to think that this was a case of a double burial on the 

 same spot, that the original interment was under the bench, and 

 that the bones which I saw were those of a second burial. The 

 absence of the head suggested that these might be the bones of the 

 Duke of Buckingham, beheaded in Salisbury by Richard HI. His 

 head was sent to London, and his trunk may have been hastily 

 buried in the Cathedral by his brother-in-law, Bishop Lionel 

 Widville. This, however, is mere conjecture. Another reason 

 for thinking it more probable that this slab in the wall of the north 

 choir aisle covers Bishop Eogei's remains than that he lies at the 

 extreme west end, are that the western part of the Cathedral was 

 not built until nearly forty years after Roger's bones were tran- 

 slated from Old to New Salisbury, and it is not likely that there 

 would have been a second re-burial in the new Cathedral. His- 

 obit was celebrated on the 11th of December. 



Bishop Jocelix (1142 — 1184) was the third Bishop whose bones 

 were brought from the old Cathedral, but I can find no record of 

 where they were deposited. As before mentioned, one of the 

 sepulchral efftgies at the south side of the west end of the nave is 

 usually ascril)ed to him, and if either of tliem is his I think it 

 must be the easternmost one of the two, upon which is an in- 

 scription referring to the noble birth of the person represented, a 

 reference which seems to be more applicable to Bishop Jocelin than 

 to any other of the early l)ish()ps except St. Osmund. If this is 

 his etligy it must have been removed fioni some part of the 

 Cathedral further east because, as before mentioned, the west part 

 n{ the Cathedral was not built when Jocelin's bones were broii'^ht 

 fiom Old Saruin. Tht^ Lady Chapel was lh(M)nlypart ihtMi tiiiished 

 and 1 think his ^a'avt^ may ha\'(» Ixmmi one of iho [Iwoo whii-h wow 

 lound west of the Lady Chaptd ht^hind l\\c high altar in ISOO 

 |iossil)ly that on the south side, in which a chalice was fouinl. His 

 <iliit. was cadchratcd on tlio ISih nf Xo\-cmhcr. 



