Footnotes:
[A] See the [map] at the commencement of this chapter.
[B] Her name is spelled variously, Arlette, Arlotte, Harlotte, and in other ways.
[C] Seizin, an ancient feudal term denoting the inducting of a party to a legal possession of his right.
[D] See [map] at the commencement of chapter ix.
[H] It is given at length in the last chapter of our history of Alfred the Great.
[I] The children of Ethelred's oldest son, Edmund, were in Hungary at this time, and seem to have been wellnigh forgotten.
[J] The Latin name for such a seal was bulla. It is on account of this sort of seal, which is customarily affixed to them, that papal edicts have received the name of bulls.
[K] Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Norman French for Hearken! hearken! hearken!