ought 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.

26
A proclamation had just been put forth by the barons, that
all foreigners should be expelled and lose their property;
and much violence ensued throughout England, the victims
being often detected by their pronunciation, as in our
story.

27
How good to those who seek Thou art,
But what to those who find!
--Saint Bernard.

28
It was one of them who first stabbed Edward the First, when
his queen saved him by sucking the poison from the wound,
according to a Spanish historian.

29
Sixty-six pounds, 13 shillings, four pence; a large sum in
those days.

30
It was afterwards ascertained that on the very night, the
father, Roger, dreamt that he saw his son in a gloomy cell,
a slave condemned to apparently hopeless toil or death, and
addressed him as in the text.

31
Acre was stormed by the Moslems, AD 1291, and the Holy Land
was lost with it.

32
How unlike the ceremonial of Hubert's knighthood! But the
approach of a battle justified the omission of the usual
rites in the opinion of the many.

33
Witness the case of the Scotch judge--pursued under divers
forms by the supposed apparition of a man he had hanged,
until he died of fright--as recorded by Sir Walter Scott in
Demonology and Witchcraft.

34
Whom they had pelted with mud as she passed under London
Bridge, calling her a witch. Life of Simon de Montfort, page
126.

35
Old English for hence.

36
Parish priests were frequently styled Sir in those days.
Father meant a monk or regular, as opposed to the secular,
clergy.

37
His descent from noble families of either race--Michelham,
the house of Ella, through his father; Walderne, of ancient
Norman blood, through his mother, rendered him acceptable to
both parties.

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