^{page 411 note *} Pl. XVIII.

^{page 413 note [a]} This precedency of St. Alban's before all the other abbeys in Englane wass appointed by Adrian IV. in = 554. see Scevens's: Monasticon, vol. I. p. 27. This pope, whose original name was Nicholas Breakpear, is generally said to have been a monk of St. Alban's. Had this been fo, it is slrange that Matthew Paris, who lived so near the time, and who was himielf a religious of the same abbey, mould have defcribed him as a perfon who was merely born on the estates of the monastery, “De tenitorio sancti Albani procreatus” Soc: Mat. Paris, ad an. 1154.

^{page 413 note [b]} Godwin de Præsul. Angl. Usher Primord. Camden, Somersetshire, &c.

^{page 413 note [c]} See the said charter in Harpsfield, Hist. Eccl. Ang p. 3. Appendix to Stevens's Monasticon, II. p. 112.

^{page 414 note [d]} See the abovementioned charter. Also a letter of St. Augustine to St. Gregory, cited by Usher. Also Antiq. Glaslon. apud Malmsb.

^{page 414 note [e]} See Collier's Eccl. Hist vol. 31. p, 164.

^{page 414 note [f]} Ibid.

^{page 415 note [g]} Written by Bruno Ryves, chaplain to king Charles I. afterwards dean of Windsor. Some few circumslances, however, in the present account of the siege, are gathered from traditions in the family.

^{page 415 note [h]} The original of the capitulation is still preserved at Wardour.

^{page 417 note [i]} Antiq. de Ja Monarchic Françoise, tom. I.

^{page 417 note [k]} For St. Peter's key, see Matth. c. xvi. v. 19. For St; John's cup, Matth., c. xx. v. 23. For Judas's purse, John, c. XII. v. 13.

^{page 417 note [l]} See the author's “Inquiry concerning the existence and charaster of St. George,” in a letter, inscribed to the right hon. President.

^{page 417 note [m]} See Brand upon Bourne, p. 340.

^{page 419 note [n[} See Dom, de Vaines, Dictionnaire Diplom. vol. I. p. 446.

^{page 420 note [o]} Pancirolus, Liber rerum deperditarum.

^{page 420 note [p]} See Erasmi Adagiorum Chil. I. Cent. vi. N° 53. Also Chiliad. II. Cent. iv. N° 74. Also Archæolog. Attic. Lib. VI. fect. 2, c. 4.

^{page 420 note [q]} “Diem noctemque continuare potando nulli probram.” Tacitus de moribus Germanorum.

^{page 420 note [r]} See Verstegan, “Restitution of Decayed Intelligence,” p. 101 , who cites Ulitapitus, and other German writers. The substance of this History occurs in Malmlbury. De Gestis Reg. Ang. Lib. I.

^{page 420 note [s]} Matt. Paris, Hist. Abbat. S. Alban.

^{page 421 note [t]} See Anglia Sacra, vol. I. p. 164.

^{page 422 note [u]} See the Life of William of Wykeham, by Dr. Louth, p. 75.

^{page 422 note [x]} Camden, who in his Remaines, p. 316, has preserved these verses, calls the author, John Hanvill Pits “de Illustr. Angl. Script.” p. 266, calls him Joannes Hantivillenfis, and says he was a monk of St, Alban's.

^{page 422 note [y]} Verstegan gives the following etymology of this well known term: “As

“was in our verb of the preterimperfect tense, or preterperfect tense, fignifying

“have been so was, being the same verb in the imperative mood, and now pro

“nounccd wax, is as much as to fay grow, or become; and Waes heal, by cor

“ruption of pronunciation, afterwards came to be Wajlail.” Restitution, p. 10.

^{page 423 note [z]} P. 21.

^{page 424 note [a]} See this account by a cantemporary writer, from the papers of Monsieur Peiresc, in Mojitsaucon's Monarchie Franç. vol. IV. p. 173.