[25], 21. Cf. 1 Corinthians xii. 3.
[26], 23. Verba Mea. The 5th Psalm in the Vulgate begins with these words.
[31], 9. Waltham. The interview with Henry II. took place at Bishop's Waltham, in Hampshire, on the 21st February, 1182.
[31], 15. Geoffrey the Chancellor. Geoffrey was a natural son of Henry II.—it is generally stated as by Fair Rosamond, though this is now discredited by the facts adduced in the Dict. Nat. Biog. He was successively Bishop of Lincoln (1173), Chancellor (1182), Archbishop of York (1191), and after a violent quarrel with King John, fled the country in 1207, dying in Normandy in 1212.
[32], 5. Matthew xix. 30; Mark x. 31.
[34], 23. By the very eyes of God: "per veros oculos Dei!" This was a favourite oath of Henry II. In a contemporary metrical life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the King is more than once made to exclaim "Par les oilz Dieu" (Rokewode, p. 115). William II. used to swear by "the holy Face of Lucca"; John by "the teeth of God" (Ramsay, Angevin Empire (1903), p. 414).
[35], 7. Miserere mei Deus. Psalm li.
CHAPTER IV
[37], 24. Threshold of the gate. Samson alighted at what is now known as the "Norman Tower."
[38], 4. Martyri adhuc. Rokewode gives on page 115 the text (with the musical notes) of this response, the words of which are: "Martyri adhuc palpitanti, sed Christum confitenti, jussit Inguar caput auferri: sicque Edmundus martyrium consummavit, et ad Deum exultans vadit." In a MS. (Digby 109) now at the Bodleian Library (which contains also a copy of Abbo's Passio) this response comes after the 5th lesson of the office of St. Edmund.