^{page 10 note a} Giraldus, giving a fabulous account of the origin of the lake, Lough Neagh, caused by the overflowing of a fountain that on a sudden deluged a large tract of land, and destroyed a wicked race of people, tells us, that in calm weather the fishermen are accustomed to point out, under water, to strangers crossing the lake, the tall, narrow, round, ecclesiastical towers peculiar to the Country. “Piscatores aquae illius turres Ecclesiasticas, quce more patrics arctm sunt et altce, necnon et rotutidce, sub undis manifesto sereno tempore conspiciunt; et extraneis transeuntibus, reique causas admirantibus, frequenter ostendunt.” Topograph. Hib. dist. ii. c. ix.

^{page 11 note b} Brechin, Abernethy.

^{page 11 note c} Libellus Vitse Fursæi. Acta SS. Benedict. Tom. viii. p. 290. Bede's account of St. Fursey, lib. iii. c. xix. is grounded on this narrative.

^{page 11 note d} Hæc tune in dormitorio Sororum pausans audivit subito in aere notum compana sonum, quo ad orationes excitari vel convocari solebant cum quis de sseculo fuisset evocatus. Bed. lib. iv, c. xxiii.

^{page 11 note e} Cleopatra, C. VIII. fo. 7. Pudicitia gladium suum sub altare in templo recondit.

^{page 12 note f} The Ikenild Street is traced by Dr. Mason, Rector of Orford in Suffolk, after it leaves Ixworth, through Lopham and Kenninghall, to Buckenham; whence one route goes direct to Caistor, and the other route goes near Taseburgh, south of Hemenhale, north of Ditchingharn Hall, crossing the road from Loddon to Beccles, passing between Toft and Heckingham, by Hadiscoe Church, to Burgh Castle. The road from Colchester, according to the same authority, enters Norfolk at Scole, passing by Dickleburgh, Stratton, and Taseburgh, to Caistor. This tract abounds in round towers.

^{page 12 note g} A single specimen occurs in Surrey, at Tooting.

^{page 13 note h} This flue is original; at Bedale in Yorkshire a tower-chimney occurs, and at Mettingham Church in Suffolk, there is a flue in the porch with an aperture for a fire cradle, or grate.

^{page 14 note i} The upper part of this tower has been rebuilt, and the whole has been cased with cut flint. In rebuilding the body of the church it was widened to the south, which throws the tower out of the centre of the building. This alteration took place in the fourteenth century and the walls are made up of the old materials. From the appearance of the wall over the chancel arch, and of the west wall of the church, the original roof seems to have been flat to a certain extent; the present roof incloses a window high above the tower arch, once external.

^{page 15 note k} Blomefield, in a note to his account of the Parish of Taseburgh, says, “the steeple was rebuilt in 1385,” this can only apply to the summit of the tower.

^{page 16 note l} Morant's History of Essex, vol. ii. p. 539.

^{page 16 note m} “Loca omnia in quibus pugnaverat et praecipue Aschendune ecclesiis insignivit, ministros instituit qui per succidua sæculorum volumina Deo supplicarent pro animabus ibi occisorum. Ad consecrationem ipsius basilicse et ipse affuit, et optimates Anglorum et Danorum donatia porrexerunt. Nunc ut fertur modica est ecclesia Presbytero parochiano delegata.” Malmesb. de gestis Reg. lib. ii. c. xi. Morant says, “It could not be the present Church of Ashdon, because it stands too far from the field of battle, therefore, it is with great reason supposed that it was Bartlow Church, which stands near the hills, and hath a round steeple, being the Danish way of building.” Camden and Gough place this battle of Essendun, or Aschendune, at Assingdon near Rochford in Essex; and Blore, with much probability, at Essendine in Rutland, differing from Morant, who fixes it at Ashdon, on the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. The artificial mounds in the Parish of Ashdon, near Bartlow Church, have all the appearance of the great British Barrows. A Roman road runs near the hills, and Roman coins and other antiquities have been found in the neighbourhood. In the garden of the Rectory of Ashdon is a stone trough, said to have been found near the Bartlow hills; it is in the form of a parallelogram, not large enough for the human body, and not very unlike the stone trough figured in plate XXXVIII of the XlVth volume of the Archæologia, and which was found to contain two glass urns.

^{page 17 note n} The west window has been altered.