then name of their estate or birthplace, with the
affix De. Knight's Pictorial History, volume 2, page 643.

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 th