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The Russell chantry, occupying a corresponding position on the oppositeside of the choir, was built by Bishop John Russell, who held the see from1480 to 1494. He is called by Sir Thomas More "a wise manne and a good ...and one of the best-learned men, undoubtedly, that England had in hystime." He was Chancellor of England under Richard III., and also heldthe post of Chancellor of Oxford University for some years. He died atNettleham in 1494. The chantry is similar in style to Bishop Fleming's;its roof is of oak. The incised brass of the tomb has gone the way ofall the minster brasses. Bishop Longland's chantry is on the otherside of the south door. The general design is an imitation of BishopRussell's chantry, but the details are much more elaborate. Over theflat archway facing the choir is the punning inscription, "Longa TerraMensura Eius Dominus Dedit," borrowed[129] from the Vulgate version of thebook of Job (ch. xi., ver. 9). Round the inside walls of the chapel isan unfinished row of stone niches, with elaborately carved canopies;there is a panelled oak ceiling. This chapel was not erected until sometime after the others; John Longland was Bishop of Lincoln from 1521 to1547. He held, like Russell, the post of chancellor of the University ofOxford, but does not seem to have been very popular there, since on oneoccasion he was pelted with stones. When Henry VIII. visited Lincoln in1541, he was received at the western end of the minster by this bishop,and stayed as his guest in the palace. Longland died in 1547, at Woburn,leaving instructions that his bowels were to be buried there; his heart atLincoln; and his body in the chapel of Eton College. The building of thechapel at Lincoln seems to have been commenced soon after the bishop'saccession to the see. Leland says "Byshope Russell, and Longland, nowByshop, Tumbes be in to Chapells cast out of the uppar Parte of theSouthe Wall of the Churche." The chapel underwent a restoration in 1859.
Marie Antoinette and Mary, Queen of Scots, stirredhis imagination most of all, and to the ill-fated Queenof Louis XVI he reverted so often that it seemed thebook was likely to be over-weighted with matter dealingwith her sad career, to the exclusion of so much elseof vital importance to our handbook.