Warton, Thomas [Editor]: Essays on gothic architecture: twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings (London, 1808)

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Ethelberfs interment, he expresses himsel fin
such terms as will not admit of that sense:
lie was buried, says Bede, in portion Sti Mar-
tini intra ecclesiam a; which shows that the
porticus was within the church: and likewise
in relating the burial of archbishop Theodore,
A. D. 6'90, he says he was buried in ecclesid
Sti. Petri, in qua omnium episcoporum JDoru-
vetnensium sunt corpora depositah (in the
church of St. Peter, in which all the bodies
of the bishops of Canterbury were interred);
though he had before said c that they were
all interred in the north portico except Theo-
dore and Berctwald, whose bodies were bu-
ried in ipsa ecclesia (in the church itself), be-
cause that portico could not conveniently hold
any mored. To make these several passages

a Becfe Hist. Eccl. lib. ii. cap 5.

b Ibid. lib. v. cap. 8.

c Ibid. lib. ii. cap. 3.

d The better to elucidate the sense of the word porticus,
the reader will be pleased to compare the following passages
from Bede and other ancient writers:—A. D. 721 obiit
Johannes Ebor. episcopus in monasterio suo Beverlac. et
" sepultus est in portico S. Petri." Beds: Hist. Eccl. lib. v.
cap. 6.—A. D. 726 obiit Tobias Roffensis episcopus, et "se-
pultus est in porticu S. Pauli. Apost. quam intro ecclesiam
S. Andreas sibi in locum sepulchri fecerat." Ibid. cap. 23.—
A. D. 977 Sidemannus Creditonia? episcopus "sepulture
traditur in monasterio Abendonensi in parte ecclesia? boreal'*
in porticu S. Pauli." Chron. Saxon.—A. D. 1034 obiit
Brithwius Wellensis episcopus; " hie jacet in aquilonan
porticu ad S. Johannem (Glastoniifi). Britwoldus Wmtoffi-
ensis (1. Wiltoniensis) episcopus, obiit A. D. 1045; Die se-
pultus fuit cum Brithwio in eadem ecclesia in parte aqui-
lonari." Monast. Angl. vol. i. p. 9.—" In ambabus porticiM-