1895 Publication of Dr. Montague R. James" two papers on (1) the Library (2) the Church of "The Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury"
(Camb. Antiq. Soc., 8vo. Publications No. xxviii.).
1901 Publication of _Nova Legenda Anglie_ (Ox. Univ. Press), containing in vol. II. the full "Vita et pa.s.sio c.u.m miraculis sancti Edmundi," compiled at Bury in the 14th Century (Bodl. MS. 240).
1901 July 25. Landing at Newhaven, for the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster, of bones from Toulouse said to be those of St. Edmund (_cf._ 1216, 1256, 1644.).
1901 Sept. 5. Letter in _The Times_ showing cause against these bones being those of St. Edmund.
1901 Sept. 9. Cardinal Vaughan admits at Newcastle-on-Tyne that, in view of facts stated, "the relics are not genuine."
1902 Publication of Lord Francis Hervey"s _Suffolk in the XVIIth Century_, containing in Appendix a critical study of the legends about St. Edmund"s life and martyrdom.
1902-3 (Winter). Excavations on site of chapter-house.
1903 Jan. 1. Discovery on the site of the chapter-house of five stone coffins with skeletons, in the positions a.s.signed in a Bury MS. of circa 1425 (now at Douai) to the burial places of Abbots Ording (1146-56), SAMSON (1182-1211), Richard of Insula (1229-34), Henry of Rushbrook (1234-46), and Edmund of Walpole (1248-56). A sixth skeleton (uncoffined) also found in a line with these coffins to the west--doubtless that of Abbot Hugh I (1156-80). _pp._ 225, 247.