The wanderings of a pen and pencil . interchangeable weavings (fretwork),drawn out and decked with roses red, &c.: to this probably the two firstlines of the vernacular allude by the word graven. When this tomb wasdestroyed, it lay in the Chapter-house, under that wall upon which to a lateperiod the tablet and inscription remained; and this was the cause of itsremoval there from its original place in the priory sanctuary (Teste ): — Anno Domini MCXCJ. Hugh Grostete (or Greathead) Bishopof Lincoln, making his visitation to the religious houses in his diocese (hewas an exemplary hon
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . interchangeable weavings (fretwork),drawn out and decked with roses red, &c.: to this probably the two firstlines of the vernacular allude by the word graven. When this tomb wasdestroyed, it lay in the Chapter-house, under that wall upon which to a lateperiod the tablet and inscription remained; and this was the cause of itsremoval there from its original place in the priory sanctuary (Teste ): — Anno Domini MCXCJ. Hugh Grostete (or Greathead) Bishopof Lincoln, making his visitation to the religious houses in his diocese (hewas an exemplary honest disciplinarian) came to the abbey of holy persons atGodestow, which is between Oxford and Woodstock: and when he enteredtheir church there that he might pray, he perceived a tomb in the middle ofthe choir before the altar, veiled with silk, and surrounded with lamps andtapers: and inquiring Whose tomb was this ? answer was made to him, that it was the tomb of Rosamond Clifford, formerly the sweetheart of To face Page THE TRUE STORY OF ROSAMOND CLIFFORD. 227 Henry king of England, the son of Queen Maud; and that he, for love ofher, had done much good to the church. The bishop did not allow for theprevailing feeling, that the king had a particular affection for the place aswell as for the lady, he and her parents having been such liberal benefactorsthereunto. The abbess and nuns had permitted her body to be laid in sucha sacred part of the church, because a handsome gratuity had been left uponthat consideration. Thus continues Hovcdon: — The bishop answered, Take her hence! she was an impure woman! bury her out of the churchwith the rest, lest the Christian religion should be defiled and polluted; andthat her example may shock other women, and that they may guard them-selves from unlawful and adulterous intercourse and associations: and ashe said, so it was done immediately. Leland says, in his Itinerary, VIII., Rosamundes tombe at Godstowe was taken up o
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