FOOTNOTES:
[1] "English Towns and Districts," 1883, pp. 103, 130.
[2] A few other cathedrals which were originally churches of monasteries are still called Minsters, as York (nearly always), Canterbury (occasionally), Ripon, Southwell, and perhaps more. Lincoln Cathedral though often called a Minster was a Cathedral from the first, and was never attached to a monastery.
[3] Gunton, p. 4.
[4] "Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis." By W.G. Searle, M.A., Camb. Antiq. Soc., 8vo. xxvii. p. 65.
[5] Searle: Ingulf, p. 63.
[6] "On the Abbey Church of Peterborough." By G.A. Poole, M.A. Arch. Soc. Archdeac. Northampton, 1855, p. 190.
[7] Poole, p. 193.
[8] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, anno 1128.
[9] "Remarks on the Architecture of Peterborough Cathedral." By F.A. Paley, M.A. 2nd Ed., 1859, p. 21.
[10] The two eastern pillars of the nave are circular; and the third pillar from the tower, on both sides, is "composed of nook-shafts set in rectangular recesses against the body of the pier."
[11] Some of Mr Poole's reasoning, as to the different parts of the nave to be attributed to different abbots, depends upon an assumption that the Saxon church was on the site of the present one, and that some part of the nave was still existing in a ruinous condition while the present choir and tower were being built. Recent discoveries have proved that this assumption is groundless, for the nave of the Saxon church was beyond the south aisle of the existing nave.
[12] Poole, p. 204.
[13] Paley, p. 54.
[14] Poole, p. 216.
[15] The engraving that accompanies this description represents a dignified altar-piece, but seems taken from a rough drawing, or possibly from memory. On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books. The Abbot's chair, of stone, is to the south, facing west.
[16] "Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell," ii, 18.
[17] These shields, which were of metal, are now arranged on the walls of the library.
[18] Where the author has often seen it. It was at last destroyed in a fire.
[19] Museum Criticum, viii, 672.
[20] "Handbook of Architecture," 2nd ed., 1859, p. 869.
[21] "English Towns and Districts," 1883, p. 29.
[22] Guide, p. 48.
[23] Sir William Feeld, Peticanon, in his will dated 1558, desires that his body may be buried in the Gallery before the church door, where all his fellows are buried. "Gallery" here is probably a corruption of "Galilee."
[24] Paley, p. 30.
[25] Gunton, p. 91.
[26] Patrick's Supplement to Gunton, p. 334.
[27] King Ethelred resigned his crown and became Abbot of Bardney. He is here figured with a mitre.
[28] As well as one other, probably the one now under one of the arches on the north of the choir.
[29] Archaeological Journal, 1861, p. 196.
[30] Gunton, p. 12.
[31] Properly Northumberland. See Bede's Eccl. Hist. iii. 6.
[32] Patrick, p. 284.
[33] Historical Memorials of Canterbury, p. 184.
[34] Patrick, p. 330.
[35] Stubbs' Episcopal Succession, p. 79.
[36] Gunton, p. 82.
[37] P. 12; quoted in the account of Bishop Cumberland in the Penny Cyclopeia, viii. 229.
[38] A full account of this famous picture with an engraving is given in Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, iv. 209.