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Bis /tops of Old Sarum. 



brother the Dean, and the Canons who formed his Chapter — nay- 

 even a plot of ground was at one time actually secured as a site for 

 the new cathedral, and also sites on which each canon might build 

 a house of residence — but, with the demands made on the resources 

 of the Church, the expense was far too great to be incurred. Suffer- 

 ing great losses and privations, stripped of all that he had devoted 

 to pious uses by the rapacity of the King and his soldiery, Bishop 

 Herbert was forced to abandon the effort on which he had set his 

 heart, and to leave it to be carried out in more peaceful times and 

 under happier circumstances, by his brother and successor, Richard 

 Poore. 



He survived King John only a few months. He would appear 

 to have removed — possibly to have been driven — from Old Sarum, 

 and to have spent his closing days at Wilton. There also, it is 

 supposed, he found his last resting-place. I know not that we 

 have any memorial to him in our present Cathedral. The course of 

 this narrative will shew that shortly after its dedication, in 1226, 

 the bodies of S. Osmund, Roger, and Joceline, were translated from 

 the precincts of the castle to the new fabric, and to each of these 

 Bishops there is a memorial — still to be identified with probability 

 — within the Cathedral. Nothing would have been more natural 

 than that his brother should have provided a memorial also to 

 Bishop Herbert. I have sometimes thought it possible that one of 

 those thirteenth century effigies, which we have some difficulty in 

 identifying, may after all be that of Herbert Poore. His obit 

 was celebrated annually, on January 7th, in the Cathedral. 



