AFTER EIGHT CENTURIES

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 6

AFTER EIGHT CENTURIES

THE CONQUEROR’S BISHOP. Sor hundreds of years stories have been told of a Norman monk who came over, to England with William the Conqueror and was one of his right-handi men in spite of the fact that he was a dwarf. He became Bishop Remigius of Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, which in those days was a verjy 'important Saxon town, lit seemed to Remigius not important enough, and in 1072 the bishopric was moved to Lincoln, the fourth biggest town in England. There he set up the Norman building of which fragments still stand in the magnificent Gothic cathedral. In 1092 the (Bishop died. There has been a .good deal of conjecture about his supposed tomb in the cathedral choir. Recent- !■ the tomb was opened, and a coffin just over four feet long was found containing the skeleton of a very short man, a chalice, and fragments of a crozier. It is thus now known that this man who made history deserved the chroniclers’ descriptions of him: “He Avag dwarfish in stature, dark in complexion, undignified in aspect. Nature seemed to have formed him to show that the noblest spirit might dAvell in the most wretched body.”