gs,
and sixty queens and princes, who, between the seventh and the eleventh
centuries, gained a place among the saints.'--Cardinal Newman, _Historic
Sketches_, 'The Isles of the North,' pp. 128-9.

Page 16.

_Instant each navy at the other dashed
Like wild beast, instinct-taught._

This image will be found in the description of a Scandinavian sea-fight
in a remarkable book less known than it deserves to be, _The Invasion_,
by Gerald Griffin, author of _The Collegians_.

The Saxons were, however, in early times as much pirates as the Danes
were at a later.

Page 18. The achievement of Hastings had been rehearsed at a much
earlier period by Harald.

Page 39. _At Ely, Elmham, and beside the Cam._

In the reign of Sigebert, Felix, Bishop of East Anglia, founded schools
respecting which Montalembert remarks: 'Plusieurs ont fait remonter a
ces ecoles monastiques l'origine de la celebre universite de Cambridge.'

Page 44. _How beautiful, O Sion, are thy courts!_

The following hymns are from the Office for the Consecration of a
Church.

St. Fursey. Page 67.

_How one with brow
Lordlier than man's, and visionary eyes._

'Whilst Sigebert still governed the kingdom there came out of Ireland a
holy man named Fursey, renowned both for his words and actions, and
remarkable for singular virtues, being desirous to live a stranger for
Our Lord, wherever an opportunity should offer.... He built himself the
monastery (Burghcastle in Suffolk) wherein he might with more freedom
indulge his heavenly studies. There falling sick, as the book about his
life informs us, he fell into a trance, and, quitting his body from the
evening till the cockcrow, he was found worthy to behold the choirs of
angels, and hear the praises which are sung in heaven.... He not only
saw the greater joys of the Blessed, but also extraordinary combats of
Evil Spirits.'--Bede, _Hist._ book iii. cap. xix. 'C'etait un moine
irlandais nomme Fursey, de tres-noble naissance et celebre depuis sa
jeunesse dans son pays par sa science et ses visions.... Dans la
principale de ses visions Ampere et Ozanam se sont accordes a
reconnaitre une des sources poetiques de la _Divine
Comedie_.'--Montalembert, _Les Moines d'Occident_, tome iv. pp. 93-4.

Page 116. _'None loveth Song that loves not Light and Truth.'_

This is one of the poetic aphorisms of Cadoc, a Cambrian prince and
saint, educated in the Irish monastery of