page 203 note * Riddle's Christian Antiquities, bk. v., p. 691.

page 203 note † Hawkins' Hist. Music, vol. ii., p. 254.

page 203 note ‡ Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, x.

page 204 note * Bibliomania in the Middle Ages (Merryweather), p. 99.

page 204 note † Court-hand Restored (Wright), Introd. xi.

page 204 note ‡ The Book of Days (Chambers), vol. ii., p. 164.

page 205 note * Vide Bale's Leland's Laboryouse Journey.

page 206 note * As recently as the year 1790 no fewer than 4,194,000 volumes belonging to monasteries were burnt in France, and out of this number 25,000 were manuscripts.

page 206 note † Essex Arch. Soc. Trans., vol. iii., p. 202.

page 206 note ‡ Church History, bk. vi., p. 335.

page 208 note * See Antiquary, vol. ii., p. 27.

page 208 note † Vide p. xxvi.

page 208 note ‡ These houses belonged to the canons of Waltham. They were destroyed in an attack upon the town and church by Geoffrey de Mandeville, who was in feud with William of Albini and others.

page 209 note * Archaeological Transactions, vol. ii., p. 60.

page 209 note † See Mr Stubbs' tract, The Foundation of Waltham, app. ii., p. 46.

page 213 note * Born 968; began to reign 978; ob. 23d April 1016. Married (1.) Ælflæd, daughter of Thored; (2.) Emma or Ælfgifu, daughter of Richard I., Duke of Normandy, ob. March 1052 (Lappenberg, vol. ii., p. 369).

page 214 note * Thorpe, vol. ii., p. 133.

page 214 note † “Of Elmham.”

page 214 note ‡ King Edward, says Fuller, was “absolutely father-in-law-ridden. This Godwin, like those sands in Kent which bear his name, never spared what he could spoil, but swallowed all which came within his compass to devour.” Edward did a great public good in remitting the Danegelt Tax, and in sweeping away other oppressive measures imposed upon the country by previous rulers.

page 215 note * Freeman's Hist. Nor. Conq., 1870, vol. ii., p. 45.

page 216 note * See Hasted's Hist. Kent, vol. iv., p. 689.

page 217 note * Norman Conquest (Freeman), vol. ii., p. 86.

page 217 note † Vide Norman Conquest.

page 217 note ‡ Hist. Devon. (Hutchin), vol. iv., D. 91.

page 218 note * Thorpe.

page 218 note † Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 514.

page 218 note ‡ Invent. S. C. W., p. 19.

page 218 note § Repertorium, vol. i., p. 11.

page 219 note * Annals of St Paul's (Milman), p. 16.

page 219 note† Bloomfield's Hist. Norfolk, vol. v.

page 219 note ‡ See list of deans, etc.

page 220 note * De Invent. S. C. W., p. 19 (Stubbs).

page 220 note † Ib.

page 220 note ‡ See infra.

page 220 note § See Hist. Nor. Conq., vol. ii., p. 446.

page 221 note * Phelps' Hist. Somerset, vol. i., p. 527.

page 221 note † Hist, of Mon., vol. i., p. 392.

page 222 note * Clutterbuck's Hist. Herts, vol. i., p. 12.

page 223 note * Steven's Hist. Mon., vol. i., p. 314.

page 223 note† Yates' Hist, of St Edmund's Bury, p. 208.

page 223 note ‡ Saxon Chron., p. 155.

page 223 note § Norman Conq. (Freeman), vol. ii., p. 337.

page 224 note * See an account of Tostig's banishment in Domesday Book, ii. 200 b.

page 225 note * See Hist. Nor. Conq., vol. i., p. 556.

page 225 note † De Inv. S. C. W., p. 13.

page 225 note ‡ Trans. Essex Arch. Soc, vol. ii., p. 10.

page 226 note * Atkyns' Hist. Gloucestershire, p. 180.

page 226 note † Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vol. i., p. 36.

page 226 note ‡ De Inv. S. C.

page 227 note * See Hist. Nor. Conq., vol. iv., p. 110.

page 230 note * See Collectanea, vol. vi., p. 196; also Harl. MS. 391.

page 231 nopte * See Johannes de Oxenedes Chronica (Ellis), 1859, pp. xxi., xxii.

page 231 note † Nichol.'s Lit. Anec. of Eighteenth Century, vol. ix., p. 421.

page 232 note * Salmon's Hist. Herts, p. 14.

page 232 note † Monasticon, vol. iv., p. 328.

page 233 note * Clutterbuck's Hist. Herts., vol. ii., p. 233.

page 234 note * This is printed in the Transactions of the Essex Arch. Soc, vol. iii., part ii. P 35.

page 234 note † Divided into nine parts.

page 239 note * Richard I. compelled the Abbot of Waltham to restore to Walter Peterin three messuages in Standstead, of which he had been unjustly deprived; from which we may infer that the entire manor did not at that time belong to the abbey. Another circumstance goes to prove that the Abbot of Waltham did not obtain permission to enclose the wood of Isneye and empark it until the time of Edward III. John, the Abbot of Waltham, granted by lease, dated November 7th, 1523, the manor of Stanstead to John Rodes of London, and Margaret his wife, for a term of sixty-one years, at the yearly rental of £25, 6s. 8d. He only remained in possession nineteen years, for at the dissolution of the abbey the manor was seized by the Crown and conveyed to Philip Paris.

The old manor-house of Stanstead near the church, now in the occupation of Captain Trower, stands within the limits of what was undoubtedly a Roman encampment. The mound by which it is surrounded, the fosse, its advantageous position commanding the valley of the Rye, its very name Stansteadbury or burgh, indicate that a fortress formerly stood upon its site. In later years it was a grange belonging to the Abbey of Waltham. In a wall in one of the cellars were recently discovered two niches; one is a piscina, the other, which has no drain hole, was probably intended as a locker or ambrey. This was then a chapel; and the discovery of the niches shows that a square recess in the east wall was designed to receive the altar. That the Abbots of Waltham should make choice of a damp, underground cellar, not ten feet square, for a chapel, into which a ray of light never entered, cannot be supposed. It was undoubtedly constructed after the suppression of religious houses, when it was dangerous to openly practise the rites of the Romish Church (Cussan's Hist. Herts, and Chauncy's Hist. Herts).

page 240 note * See Chauncy's Hist. Herts, p. 192.

page 240 note † Collectanea Topog. et Geneal., vol. vi., p. 196.

page 241 note * Lyson's Hist. Bedfordshire, p. 40.

page 242 note * See Clutterbuck's Hist. Herts, vol. ii., p. 182.

page 243 note * Tighe & Davis' Annals of Windsor, vol. i., p. 28.

page 243 note † See Cott. MS., c. ix., folio 62; Harl. 391, folio 97.

page 244 note * Annals of Windsor (as before), also Lambard's Diet. Angliæ.

page 244 note † 1b.

page 245 note * Clutterbuck, vol. ii., p. 28.

page 245 note † Stow's Survey, and Malcolm's Londinium Rediv., vol. iv., p. 422.

page 245 note ‡ Chamberlain's Hist. Lond., 459.

page 246 note * Archæologia, vol. xxxvi., p. 400.

page 246 note † Scotland de Ifeld, buried at Waltham, i.e., “Eg o Scotland do & cedo corp. meu. sepeliendu. cu. Kmis. frib. meis apd. Walth.”

page 247 note * Consecrated Bishop of Lincoln, May 18, 1235. He was a man of obscure origin, but of eminent learning. He ruled over his diocese for eighteen years, and died October 9, 1253 (see Hist. Lincoln, p. 146.

page 247 note † This was an ancient chapel, adjoining the parish church of Waltham.

page 247 note ‡ “ Carta Hugonis Lincoln, epi. de Alricheseia.” The date of this charter is not given, but Mr Grimaldi, a writer in the Coll. Top. et Geneal., vol. vi., p. 202, states “the seal (of the original document) is broken away. The date of this charter is very nearly fixed, as Haimo, Dean of Lincoln, one of the witnesses, held that dignity from 1189 to 1195.”

page 248 note * See Saunders' Hist, of Lincoln.

page 249 note * Bloomfield's Hist. Norfolk, vol. x., p. 41.

page 250 note * See ante.

page 250 note † Holyfield is a hamlet in this parish.

page 250 note ‡ See Manning and Bray's Hist. Surrey, vol. ii., p. 343.

page 251 note * Lyson's Camb., p. 158.

page 251 note ‡ See margin of charter, and New Court Rept.

page 252 note * Croxby, 1277.

page 252 note ‡ Hoveden's Chronica, vol. ii., p. 118.

page 252 note ‡ See Collier's Eccles. Hist. Gt. Brit., vol. ii., p. 333.

page 253 note * See Stevens' Hist, of Abbeys, vol. ii., p. 115.

page 254 note * History of Music (Hawkins), vol. ii., p. 202.

page 256 note * The name of “ Willim. Hamby, sum liber,” is on the first page.

page 256 note † See “Monasticon Anglicanum,” ed. by Caley, Ellis, , and Bandinel, , 1830, vol. vi., pt. i., p. 59Google Scholar .