Note 1 — Chapter I
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The origin of the name Ely has been discussed in "Fenland Notes and Queries," ii., pp. 316, 371.
[2] "Words and Places," 2nd ed., 1865, p. 355.
[3] Quoted in Bentham, p. 52.
[4] This place has not been positively identified; but the general opinion is that Stow, about ten miles north-west of Lincoln, is the place. The existing church there is, however, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It has been said that, besides Ely Cathedral, six ancient churches in England are dedicated to S. Etheldreda. In this number the ancient episcopal chapel in Ely Place and the destroyed church at Histon, Cambridgeshire, are probably not included. Other churches with this dedication occur at Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, West Halton, Lincolnshire, Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Norwich, and S. Audrie's, in Somerset. The writer has not been able to discover the sixth. At Swaffham Prior, ten miles south of Ely, are the ruins of a small chapel with this dedication.
[5] A mile south is a field still known as Cratendon Field.
[6] Bentham, p. 68.
[7] "Architectural History of Ely Cathedral," 1868, p. 53.
[8] The presbytery, as the term is used at Ely, signifies the six eastern bays of the central portion of the church east of the transepts. The choir, or portion devoted to the daily choral service, varied in position from time to time.
[9] See Murray's "Handbook," p. 198.
[10] See Hewett's "Brief History," p. 10.
[11] "The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century," 1861, p. 195.
[12] See also Dean Stubbs' "Historical Memorials of Ely Cathedral," pp. 151, 152.
[13] The largest of these bells, weighing 6,280 pounds, was called by Walsingham's name.
[14] Bentham, pp. 221, 222.
[15] "Handbook," ed. Stubbs, 20th ed., p. 29.
[16] Ibid., p. 83. The full epitaph is given on p. 84.
[17] Bentham, pp. 177, 178.
[18] Hope's "The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century," p. 178.
[19] Quoted in Murray's "Handbook," p. 258.
[20] Browne Willis's "Survey," vol. iii., p. 334.
[21] Hewett ("Brief History," p. 24) says the north-eastern angle, and gives the date 1669; but the account in the text is correct.
[22] "Through England On a Side-Saddle in the time of William and Mary, being the Diary of Celia Fiennes." Published 1888. Quoted in "Fenland Notes and Queries," vol. i., pp. 291-293.
[23] Page 214.
[24] Page 17.
[25] Page 334.
[26] Date so given in "Handbook," 20th ed.
[27] Gibbons' "Ely Episcopal Records," p. 112.
[28] "Notes on the Cambridgeshire Churches," p. 4.
[29] "Ecclesiologist," xxvii., p. 71.
[30] "Ecclesiologist," xxi., p. 26.
[31] "Handbook," 20th ed., App. II.