f the Isle of Wight.

(72) i.e. Dungeness; where they collected all the ships stationed
in the great bay formed by the ports of Romney, Hithe, and
Folkstone.

(73) i.e. Godwin and his son Harold.

(74) i.e. the tide of the river.

(75) Godwin's earldom consisted of Wessex, Sussex, and Kent:
Sweyn's of Oxford, Gloucester, Hereford, Somerset, and
Berkshire: and Harold's of Essex, East-Anglia, Huntingdon,
and Cambridgeshire.

(76) The church, dedicated to St. Olave, was given by Alan Earl
of Richmond, about thirty-three years afterwards, to the
first abbot of St. Mary's in York, to assist him in the
construction of the new abbey. It appears from a MS. quoted
by Leland, that Bootham-bar was formerly called "Galman-hithe",
not Galmanlith, as printed by Tanner and others.

(77) Called St. Ethelbert's minster; because the relics of the
holy King Ethelbert were there deposited and preserved.

(78) The place where this army was assembled, though said to be
very nigh to Hereford, was only so with reference to the
great distance from which some part of the forces came; as
they were gathered from all England. They met, I
conjecture, on the memorable spot called "Harold's Cross",
near Cheltenham, and thence proceeded, as here stated, to
Gloucester.

(79) This was no uncommon thing among the Saxon clergy, bishops
and all. The tone of elevated diction in which the writer
describes the military enterprise of Leofgar and his
companions, testifies his admiration.

(80) See more concerning him in Florence of Worcester. His lady,
Godiva, is better known at Coventry. See her story at large
in Bromton and Matthew of Westminster.

(81) He died at his villa at Bromleage (Bromley in
Staffordshire).--Flor.

(82) He built a new church from the foundation, on a larger plan.
The monastery existed from the earliest times.

(83) Florence of Worcester says, that he went through Hungary to
Jerusalem.

(84) This must not be confounded with a spire-steeple. The
expression was used to denote a tower, long before spires
were invented.

(85) Lye interprets it erroneously the "festival" of St. Martin.--"ad
S. Martini festum:" whereas the expression relates to
the place, not to the time of his death, which is mentioned
immediately afterwards.

(86) This threnodia on the death of Edwa