Note 27 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
1 History of Oxfordshire, by J. Meade Falkner.
2 It is now in possession of Mr. Kenneth M. Clark, by whose permission the accompanying plan, reproduced from the Memorials of Old Suffolk, was made.
3 Memorials of Old Suffolk, edited by V.B. Redstone, p. 226.
4 The Builder, April 16, 1904.
5 History of Renaissance Architecture, by R. Blomfield.
6 Cf. Memorials of Suffolk, edited by V.B. Redstone.
7 The Chester folk have a proverb, "When the daughter is stolen, shut Pepper-gate"—referring to the well-known story of a daughter of a Mayor of Chester having made her escape with her lover through this gate, which he ordered to be closed, but too late to prevent the fugitives.
8 The Rev. T. Auden, Shrewsbury (Methuen and Co.).
9 Ibid., p. 48.
10 The Charm of the English Village (Batsford).
11 The Charm of the English Village, pp. 50-7.
12 Old West Surrey, by Gertrude Jekyll, p. 206.
13 Highways and Byways in Sussex, by E.V. Lucas.
14 I fear the poet's plans will never be passed by the rural district council.
15 The rood-loft has unfortunately disappeared.
16 Excursions in Essex, published in 1819, states: "The old market cross and gaol are taking down. The market cross has long been considered a nuisance."
17 These tiles have now found a place in the excellent local museum.
18 A payment to the superior lord for protection.
19 Cf. Memorials of Old Suffolk, p. 65.
20 Grose's Antiquities.
21 Taunton and its Castle, by D.P. Alford (Memorials of Old Somerset), p. 149.
22 A fine linen cloth made in Brittany (cf. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 1).
23 A rich sort of stuff interwoven with gold and silver, made at Tournay, which was formerly called Dorneck, in Flanders.
24 An alloy of copper and zinc.
25 Large standard candlesticks.
26 The Lent cloth, hung before the altar during Lent.
27 A Pax.
28 History of the Church in England, p. 401.
29 Doubtless our author means Norman.
30 A china punch-bowl was actually presented by Sir T. Drake to be used as a font at Woodbury, Devon.
31 English Church Furniture, by Dr. Cox and A. Harvey.
32 The Parish Councillor, an article by Dr. Jessop, September 20, 1895.
33 Canon F.E. Warren recently reported to the Suffolk Institute of Archæology that while he was dining at a friend's house he saw two chalices on the table.
34 Memorials of Old Warwickshire, edited by Miss Alice Dryden.
35 The present Marquis of Northampton in his book contends that the house was mainly built in the reign of Henry VII by Edmund Compton, Sir William's father, and that Sir William only enlarged and added to the house. We have not space to record the arguments in favour of or against this view.
36 The Progresses of James I, by Nichols.
37 Old-time Parson, by P.H. Ditchfield, 1908.
38 Country Life, September 17th, 1904.
39 Farmers.
40 Stand away.
41 One just.
42 The Builder, March 6, 1909.
43 It is erroneously styled Bishop Hall's Palace. An episcopal palace is the official residence of the bishop in his cathedral city. Not even a country seat of a bishop is correctly called a palace, much less the residence of a bishop when ejected from his see.
44 History of Newbury, by Walter Money, F.S.A.
45 Report of the State of Lancashire in 1590 (Chetham Society, Vol. XCVI, p. 5).
46 Ancient Crosses of Lancashire, by Henry Taylor.
47 Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire, by Henry Taylor, F.S.A.
48 Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire, by Henry Taylor, F.S.A.
49 Ibid.
50 Act of Parliament, 1405.
51 History of Hungerford, by W. Money, p. 38.
52 Notes and Queries, 4th series, X, p. 6.
53 Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire, by H. Taylor, F.S.A., p. 37.
54 History of Skipton, W.H. Dawson, quoted in Bygone Punishments, p. 199.
55 The corporation of Hungerford is peculiar, the head official being termed the constable, who corresponded with the mayor in less original boroughs.
56 Act of Parliament 25 George II.
57 Ferry.
58 Mr. Nisbett gives a good account of the hospital in Memorials of Old Hampshire, and Mr. Champneys fully describes the buildings in the Architectural Review, October, 1903, and April, 1904.
59 The Treasury, November, 1907, an article on hospitals by Dr. Hermitage Day.
60 Highways and Byways in Berkshire.
61 Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (Methuen and Co.).
62 The book of words is printed in Old English Customs, by P.H. Ditchfield.
63 A paper read by Mr. Nigel Bond, Secretary of the National Trust, at a meeting of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, to which paper the writer is indebted for the subsequent account of the proceeding's of foreign governments with regard to the preservation of their ancient monuments.
64 Ibid.
65 A full account of this useful invention was given in the Times Engineering Supplement, March 18th, 1908, by Mr. Francis Fox, M. Inst. C.E.