Still more interest was created by Archbishop Vauyhan's announcement that he had practically been convinced by Sir Ernest Clarke that the so-called bones of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, recently sent to this country at the instance of the {Pope, are spurious. It was on the suggestion of Cardinal Vaughan himself that the Pope induced the Church of St. Servin, at Toulouse, to send over those relics. At present they are resting at the—magnificent Roman Catholic Church built" by the Duke Norfolk at Arundel; but they were to {have found a permanent resting place in ithe new Cathedral of Westminster. Now, however, they will, I suppose, be sent back to St. Servin, to be replaced among the bones of the five Apostles, and of Susannah, the lady who was persecuted by the Elders, the possession of which that Church still boasts. It is a triumph for Sir Ernest who, in his enthusiasm for East-Avglian archwology, has investigated' the whole subject with wonderful completeness. He shows that the St. Servin relics were originally described as those of St. Aymon, Confessor to the English King," and that the body of St. Edmund remained at the famous Abbey at till the Saint's shrine was destroy at the Dissolution. He demonstrates the
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