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THE SAXON CATHEDRAL AT CANTERBURY
in vain that attempts to solve such a mystery are made, and we must be content to leave the matter where Edmer left it.
The following is a list of the names and dates of the Archbishops who are recorded to have been buried in the Church of St. John:
| The 11th. | —Cuthbert, 741 to 759. He was the first to be buried therein. |
| The 12th. | —Breogwine, 759 to 762, was buried near the body of his predecessor. "His tomb was flat, of decent workmanship, and a little raised above the pavement." |
| The 14th. | —Athelard, 793 to 805. Offa, King of the Mercians, grants a charter to Christ Church, giving certain lands to the Monastery. |
| The 15th. | —Wulfred, 805 to 832. |
| The 16th. | —Feologild, 832 to 833, was Abbot of a Monastery in Kent; possibly he was Dean of Christ Church. |
| The 17th. | —Ceolnoth, 833 to 870. |
| The 18th. | —Ethelred, 870 to 890. |
| The 19th. | —Plegmund, 890 to 914, journeyed to Rome and bought the blessed Martyr Blasius for a great sum of gold and silver. He brought the body with him when he returned to Canterbury, and placed it there in Christ Church (Gervase). |
| The 20th. | —Athelm, 914 to 923. Had been a monk of Glastonbury and afterwards Bishop of Wells. |
| The 21st. | —Wulfhelm, 923 to 942. He crowned King Athelstan in 924 at Kingston-on-Thames in the Market-place, upon the King's stone which is still to be seen there. |
The following Archbishops are recorded as being buried in the Cathedral itself: | |
| The 22nd. | —Odo (the Good), 942 to 960, was buried on the south of the altar of Christ in the chord of the apse in the Saxon Cathedral. |
| The 23rd. | —Dunstan, 960 to 988, was buried in the middle of the transept in a pyramidal tomb in front of the steps leading up |
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