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means to supply Richard's ceaseless demands for money for his wars. Hence it was that he had summoned a meeting of bishops and barons at Oxford on December 7, 1197, at which he proposed that they should agree to the king's latest demand and should themselves furnish him with three hundred knights to serve for twelve months against Philip of France, or give him money which would suffice to obtain them. This was strenuously and successfully opposed by Hugh, seconded by Herbert Bishop of Salisbury, and this action is spoken of by Stubbs as a landmark of constitutional history, being "the first clear case of the refusal of a money grant demanded by the Crown." Hugh was in France when Henry II. died, but returned in time for the coronation of Richard I. He several times attended both Richard and John to Normandy, and when Richard died he buried him at Fontevrault in 1199, where Henry II. and his wife, Eleanora of Guienne, and John's wife, Isabella of Angoulême, are also buried. He was back in England for John's coronation on May 27, but, going again to visit the haunts of his boyhood at Grenoble, he caught a fever and, after a long illness, died next year in the London house of the Bishops of Lincoln, at the "Old Temple." He was buried in his own cathedral, November 24, 1200, in the north-east transept, King John, who happened to be then in Lincoln, to receive the homage of the Scottish king, taking part as bearer in the funeral procession. Worship of him began at once, and was greatly augmented when the Pope canonized him in 1220. In 1230, when Richard of Gravesend had completed the angel choir, St. Hugh's body was translated to it in the presence of King Edward I and Queen Eleanor and their children. This was ten years before Eleanor's death at Harby, near Lincoln. The only thing recorded against Bishop Hugh is that he should have, upon Henry's death, ordered the taking up of Fair Rosamond's bones from Godstow Priory.

The story of St. Hugh's swan is curious but not incredible. Sir Charles Anderson says: "It seems, from the minute description of the bill, to have been a wild swan or whooper." This swan was greatly attached to its master, and constantly attended him when in residence at Stow Park, where there was a good deal of water, and many wildfowl. It is said, also, that on his last visit the bird showed signs of restlessness and distress. Sir Charles sees no reason to withhold belief from the story, and