Baldwin smiled and nodded, but in his mind he wondered. ‘The chapel was built because of one clandestine murder. Would it be so surprising if a man involved in that murder felt the earth move beneath him when on that same spot, he tried to kill again?’
‘Hah! You think he was weak in the head?’
Baldwin smiled, but as he closed his eyes, he had a notion that he would not feel so anxious at the sight of the Charnel Chapel again.
Still, he was determined that under no circumstances would his own body be buried here in Exeter. He would be buried in Cadbury or Crediton. He did not want his bones to rest in the chapel of bones. He wanted nothing to do with the place.
* A History of the Diocese of Exeter by Rev. R.J.E. Boggis MA, BD (1922). See pp. 142–5.
* Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 1985)
* See The Boy-Bishop’s Glovemaker
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