ar of Fountain's
Abbey.]

[Footnote 23: Note C. Minstrelsy.]

[Footnote 24: It may be proper to remind the reader, that the chorus of "derry
down" is supposed to be as ancient, not only as the times of the
Heptarchy, but as those of the Druids, and to have furnished the chorus
to the hymns of those venerable persons when they went to the wood to
gather mistletoe.]

[Footnote 25: A rere-supper was a night-meal, and sometimes signified a
collation, which was given at a late hour, after the regular supper had
made its appearance. L. T.]

[Footnote 26: Note D. Battle of Stamford.]

[Footnote 27: "Nota Bene."--We by no means warrant the accuracy of this piece of
natural history, which we give on the authority of the Wardour MS. L. T.]

[Footnote 28: Note E. The range of iron bars above that glowing charcoal]

[Footnote 29: Henry's Hist. edit. 1805, vol. vii. p..146.]

[Footnote 30: I wish the Prior had also informed them when Niobe was sainted.
Probably during that enlightened period when "Pan to Moses lent his
pagan horn." L. T.]

[Footnote 31: "Surquedy" and "outrecuidance"--insolence and presumption]

[Footnote 32: Mantelets were temporary and movable defences formed of planks,
under cover of which the assailants advanced to the attack of fortified
places of old. Pavisses were a species of large shields covering the
whole person, employed on the same occasions.]

[Footnote 33: The bolt was the arrow peculiarly fitted to the cross-bow, as that
of the long-bow was called a shaft. Hence the English proverb--"I will
either make a shaft or bolt of it," signifying a determination to make
one use or other of the thing spoken of.]

[Footnote 34: The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in
bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or
diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.]

[Footnote 35: Note F. Heraldry]

[Footnote 36: Every Gothic castle and city had, beyond the outer-walls, a
fortification composed of palisades, called the barriers, which were
often the scene of severe skirmishes, as these must necessarily be
carried before the walls themselves could be approached. Many of those
valiant feats of arms which adorn the chivalrous pages of Froissart took
place at the barriers of besieged places.]

[Footnote 37: "Derring-do"--desperate courage.]

[Footnote 38: The author has some idea that this passage is imitated from the
appearance of Philidaspes, before the d