PKEFACE. xlix to the bishop about the affair, saying he "would not suffer this wickedness to pass unpunished, " quia plagas fratrum " nee debemus nee possumus sine lacrymis tolerare."^ In his mandate he threatens all the officials of the priory — tlie prior, subprior, sacrist, prsecentor, cellarer, sub- cellarer, and cook — with the greater excommunication, and the church with an interdict, unless they restoi'e the bofly. The bishop accordingly held an inquisition on the wish of the deceased and on the supposed injury to the friars (p. 503), and found that it was his last Avish to be buried in S. Mary's cemetery (i.e. that of the cathe- dral) ; — that no one had wilfully hurt the friars, but that, the crowd pressing on them, they had stumbled and fallen on some dung-heaps. The archdeacon's official, in consequence of the archbishop's letter, afterwards required the prior, on pain of suspension, to give up the body, and the friars promised they would cany it off as quietly as they could. Instead, however, of doing this, they carried it through the street with great pomp and tvimult, explaining their privilege to the people in English (materna lingua),^ inviting all they could to the spectacle to tlie confusion of the monks (ad confiisionem nostram per magnam plateam cum cantu tumultuose illud efferebant), (p, 504). Regarding the architectural history of the catliedral Architec- the Annals are very meagre: there is mention of thetoryofthe foil of the new tower in 1175 (p. 383), of the dedica- cathedral, tion of the cathedral in tlie presence of the young king and a great array of bishops and abbats in 1218 seems rather to rejoice in the Pope's ] ' See the archbishop's letter in death in consequence, " sed quarto Thomas's Appendix, No. 64, p. .OS, " non. Aprilis sol cognovit occasum ' followed by his mandate, p. 5fi. " suum " (p. .509). The bishop of - The annalist mentions that the Worcester had also been admitted edict respecting a new perambula- " tanquam frater in ordine fratrum lion of the forests was published in " Minorum." See Thomas's VVor- ■ iMiglish in Worcester in 12'J9 (p. center, Appendix, No. 51, p. 35. 541).
