Note 1 — Chapter III
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Quite recently further security has been attained by a system of iron bracing, not visible from beneath.
[2] "Ely Gossip," p. 39.
[3] When Murray's "Eastern Cathedrals" was published, Mr. Gambier Parry's work had not been begun; and by comparing the above list with the list there given as the proposed series of sacred subjects for the last six bays of the ceiling, it will be seen that the last three subjects are not the same as at first intended.
[4] From the key to the ceiling by Dean Stubbs, in "Handbook," 20th ed., pp. 60, 61.
[5] Admirable and exhaustive descriptions of these pieces of sculpture, with sketches of six of them, are given in Dean Stubbs' "Historical Memorials of Ely Cathedral," pp. 71-84. The account in the text of the miracle on the seventh corbel is condensed from this description.
[6] Canon Stewart, in The Builder, April 2nd, 1892.
[7] Introduction to Farren's "Cathedral Cities of Ely and Norwich."
[8] For a full account and list of all the subjects as far as is known, see Dean Stubbs' catalogue of them, abridged from Dr. Montagu James' work on the iconography of the lady-chapel, given in the "Handbook," 20th ed., pp. 127-132.
[9] In the inventory of plate, etc., "belonging to the late priory at Ely," made 31 Hen. VIII., printed in Bentham's "History" from the MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the only altars mentioned are the high altar, those in the lady-chapel, in the chapels of Bishops Alcock and West, and in "Byslope Redmannes Chaple."