7
       His literary acquirements, unusual in the time, increased
       his influence and reputation.  Knight’s Pictorial History.

8
       How did I weep in Thy Hymns and Canticles, touched to the
       quick by the voices of Thy sweet-attuned Church, the voices
       flowed into my ears and the truth distilled into my heart. 
       Saint Augustine’s Confessions volume 9 page 6.

9
       Afterwards the site of the battle of Edgehill.

10
       See his biography in Macmillan’s Sunday Library.

11
       Ethelflaed, Lady or Queen of the Mercians (under her brother
       Edward, son of Alfred), threw up certain huge mounds and
       certain stone castles, to defend her realm and serve as
       refuges in troublous times.  One site was Oxford, and it is
       the first authentic event recorded in the history of the
       city—­the foundation of the university by Alfred being
       abandoned by scholars, as an interpolation in Asser, the
       king’s biographer.

12
       The Rival Heirs, or the Third Chronicle of Aescendune.

13
       Because in later times some poor Jews were burnt there.

14
       Like those still seen at Tewkesbury Abbey, of similar
       proportions.

15
       The date of the surrender was November 16, 1537.  It was
       granted to Thomas Cromwell, February 16, 1538.  It was at
       once destroyed by skilled agents of destruction, and the
       materials sold.  Cromwell did not enjoy it long; he perished
       at Tower Hill by the axe, July 28, 1540.

16
       The old hymn for Wednesday morning, according to Sarum use. 
       I am indebted to the Hymnary for the translation.

17
       The supposed name of the penitent thief.  The author is not
       answerable for the non-elision of the vowel—­the name is
       authentic; it stood on the site of the present Oriel
       College.  See preface.

18
       See Alfgar the Dane, chapter 24.

19
       It was the Gospel for the day in Italy—­not in England.

20
       The Viaticum was the Last Communion, given in preparation
       for death, as the provision for the way.

21
       Such an arrangement was made in the Egyptian Temple at On;
       at one particular moment on one day in the year, the rays
       admitted through a concealed aperture gilded the shrine, and
       the crowd thought it miraculous.

22
       Adapted from a translation of a chorus in the Agamemnon by
       my lamented friend, the late Reverend Gerard Moultrie.

23
       A mere tradition of the time, not historical.

24
       See the Andredsweald, by the same author.

25
       This is the same spot mentioned in the Andredsweald, chapter
       9 part 2, as a retreat of the English after Senlac.