CHAPTER II.
[12], 3. Ranulf de Glanville. The famous author of the oldest of our legal classics, the "Treatise on the Laws and Customs of England," was of Suffolk stock, and was born at Stratford St. Andrew, Saxmundham. He succeeded Richard Lucy as chief justiciary of England, and thenceforward he was the king's right-hand man (Richard of Devizes called him the "King's eye"). At the moment of Abbot Hugh's death Henry II. was in France (he kept that Christmas at Le Mans), so the monks appreciated the importance of letting Glanville as justiciary know at once the fact of the vacancy. Glanville took the cross, and died at the siege of Acre in 1180.
[12], 11. wardship of the Abbey. The accounts rendered by the wardens during the abbatial vacancy have been fortunately preserved in the returns which Wimer, the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, made to the Exchequer for the 27 and 28 Henry II. Mr. Rokewode gives the actual text of them (pp. 110-1). The rental of the Abbot from Michaelmas, 1180, to Michaelmas, 1181, was £326 12s. 4d.: out of which £56 13s. 4d. was paid for corrodies, including £21 for Abbot Hugh's expenses for the six weeks before his death, and £35 for the Archbishop of Trontheim.
[14], 2. Deuteronomy xvi. 19.
[14], 9. paintings. For an interesting discussion as to these paintings, and the subjects of them, see James, pp. 130 et seq.
[14], 11. building the great tower. Samson's work as subsacrist in connection with this tower is thus described by James, page 119: "Samson finished one storey in the great tower at the west end. This was a western tower occupying a position similar to that of the western tower at Ely, immediately over the central western door." It was not this tower (as stated by Rokewode, page 111) that fell down on 23 Sept., 1210, but the central tower (see James, pp. 121-203).
[16], 7. Judges xvi. 19.
[16], 11. Judges xvi. 29.
[16], 18. Matthew xxv. 21.
[17], 7. Quot homines tot sententiæ. Terence, Phormio, Act. 2, Sc. 3, 14.
[17], 12. Abbot Ording. In the dedication to Abbot Ording of the Liber de Infantia Sancti Eadmundi by Galfridus de Fontibus, Ording is said (Arnold, i. 93) to have been "watchful in attendance on the King from his boyhood." Apparently this King was Stephen (born about 1097), as Henry II., his successor, was not born until 1133. At that time Ording would have been on duty at Bury: for he was already Prior in 1136, when Anselm, then Abbot, was nominated for the Bishopric of London. Ording was appointed in 1138 Abbot in Anselm's place; but as the latter failed to get his nomination to the See of London confirmed by the Pope, he came back to Bury. Ording therefore, "sive volens sive nolens" had to return to his duties as Prior; but when Anselm died in 1148, Ording was re-elected Abbot, and held office till he died in 1156. As to his place of burial, see note to p. 152, l. 5, on p. 247.
[17], 23. Matthew xvi. 19.
[18], 9. Barrators of Norfolk. Barrator==an incitor to lawsuits (from O. Fr. bareter, to deceive, cheat). The men of Norfolk were noted for their litigious propensities (cf. Tusser's rhyming autobiography: "Norfolk wiles, so full of guiles"). Fuller in his Worthies says: "Whereas pedibus ambulando is accounted but a vexatious suit in other countries, here (where men are said to study law as following the plough-tail) some would persuade us that they will enter an action for their neighbour's horse but looking over their hedge." An Act was passed in 1455 (33 Hen. VI. cap. 7) to check the litigiousness of "the City of Norwich, and the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk."
[18], 17. Acts xxvi. 24, 25.
[20], 13. 1 Corinthians xiii. 11.
[21], 4. Romans xvi. 5.
[21], 6. Blood-letting season (tempore minutionis). At stated times of the year there was a general blood-letting among the monks; and in the same Liber Albus in which Jocelin's chronicle appears is a set of Regulations De Minutis Sanguine (fol. 193). Amongst the servants in the infirmary of Bury Monastery was Minutor, cum garcione (id. fol. 44). The effects of the minutio were supposed to last three days, during which the monk did not go to matins.
[21], 17. Nihil est ab omni parte beatum. Horace, Od. i. 16.
[22], 8. John xix. 22.
[22], 9. Et semel emissum volat irrevocable verbum. Horace i. Ep. 18. 71.
[22], 23. Medio tutissimus ibis. Ovid, Metamorphoses ii. 137.
[23], 1. Matthew xix. 12.
[23], 3. Archbishop of Norway. In 1180 Eystein (Augustinus) Archbishop of Trontheim, refusing to crown Sverrir, a successful rebel, who had defeated Magnus, King of Norway, was driven into exile and came to England. (William de Newburgh, iii. 16.) Rokewode (p. 113) shows from the accounts of the Wardens of the Abbey during the vacancy, that the corrodies allowed to the Archbishop amounted in all to £94 10s.
[23], 11. Holy child Robert. Nothing is known of the circumstances of this boy's death at the hands of the Jews, on 10th June, 1181, or of Jocelin's account of it (line 16), beyond the reference made by Bale in his list of Jocelin's writings to Vita Roberti Martyris.
[23], 13. Acts v. 12.