Cnut, and at last, closely besieged in London, died miserably in the
year of the Incarnation 1017, after a reign of 36 years of great
tribulation."]

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CHAPTER IV.

HISTORICAL MEMORIES TO THE ACCESSION OF THE TUDORS.


_The First Cathedral_--_Mellitus and his Troubles_--_Erkenwald_
--_Theodred_ "_the Good_"--_William the Norman, his Epitaph_
--_The Second Cathedral_--_Lanfranc and Anselm hold Councils in
it_--_Bishop Foliot and Dean Diceto_--_FitzOsbert_--_King John's
Evil Reign, his Vassalage_--_Henry III.'s Weak and Mischievous
Reign_--_The Cardinal Legate in St. Paul's_--_Bishop Roger_ "_the
Black_"--_The three Edwards, Importance of the Cathedral in their
Times_--_Alderman Sely's Irregularity_--_Wyclif at St. Paul's_
--_Time of the Wars of the Roses_--_Marriage of Prince Arthur._


I have already said that the buildings of the ancient cathedral, with
a special exception to be considered hereafter, were completed before
the great ecclesiastical changes of the sixteenth century.

Our next subject will be some history of the events which the