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an actual belief that it is so. 1 But after all, have we not the 

 greatest monument of all in our glorious cathedral, of which he was 

 the undoubted founder, though it was not completed till some thirty 

 years after his decease, and in which, ever since that memorable 

 Sunday before S. Michael's Day, 1225, when he first dedicated his 

 altars in the Lady Chapel, there has been offered almost without 

 ceasing the daily sacrifice of prayer and praise. 



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-'Communicated by Sib Geoege Duckett, Bart. 



^HE refusal on the part of many country gentlemen to take 

 up the order of knighthood, both in the time of King 

 James I., and afterwards in that of his son, preferring rather to be 

 fined for declining to do so, was based often upon more solid reasons 

 than would at first sight appear, for to men of good lineage and 

 descent, the honor, if indeed it could be so called, was not only a 

 very doubtful one, as the ensuing lines clearly shew, but exceedingly 



1 The first person, as far as I know, who suggested Salisbury as the burial- 

 place of Bishop Poore was Richardson, in his edition (1743) of Bishop Godwyn's 

 " De Prsesulibus . Anglise," but in this he absolutely contradicts the statement 

 made by his author nearly one hundred and fifty years before ; for the work was 

 published first in 1601. The monument attributed to him, which has lately been 

 replaced on the north side of the altar, I believe to be that of Bishop Bingham. 

 This also was the opinion of Canon Bowles expressed more than forty years ago 

 (History of Lacock Abbey, p. 370), and of Mr. Planche, in a paper (1859) on the 

 " Sepulchral Effigies in Salisbury Cathedral." See British Archseol. Journal, xv.,119. 



