Note 10 — Hugh of Manchester: A Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century.[10]

The authorities for the biography of Hugone de Maincestre are Dugdale’s “History of Warwickshire,” p. 763; Gregson’s “Fragments,” p. 235; Baines’s “History of Lancashire,” vol. ii., pp. 193, 356; vol. iv., p. 826; “Nicholas: Trivet Annales,” 1845 (and in Daccher, Spicil. Vet. Scrip., tom. viii.); “Robert of Brunne’s Rhyming Chronicle;” Hibbert-Ware’s “Foundations of Manchester;” “Pits de Angliæ Scriptoribus;” “Bale de Scriptoribus Britannicis,” cent. v., num. 62; Fuller’s “Worthies of England.” If the reader desires to see an example of the method of building without bricks, he may with advantage consult the notice of Hugh of Manchester in Edwin Butterworth’s “Biography of Eminent Natives of Manchester.”