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[596] The famous Hubert Walter (or Walter Hubert) who had accompanied King Richard to Palestine and crowned King John; archbishop from 1193 to 1205; for a number of years, as much the ruler of England as those kings themselves. His tomb in Canterbury Cathedral has been identified in our days.
[597] Creteyne, increase, rising flood; in French, crue
[598] A “movable” part, just for the passage of masts.
