[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.