[44], 14. The Eight Hundreds. These eight hundreds of Thingoe, Thedwastre, Blackbourn, Bradbourn, Bradmere, Lackford, Risbridge and Babergh, with the half hundred of Cosford (see line 18) constituted the Liberty of St. Edmund, as to which see note on page 238.
[44], 15. Robert of Cockfield. See note to pp. 86, l. 18, on page 241, and cf. pages 254-6.
[44], 24. Hidages, foddercorn, hen-rents. Hidage was a tax upon every hide of land; foddercorn an ancient feudal right that the lord should be provided with fodder for his horses; hen-rents were a common reservation upon inferior tenures.
[45], 11. Kalendar. A transcript of this kalendar, which, as stated in the text (p. 45, l. 2) was completed by 1186, is now in the possession of Prince Frederick Dhuleep Singh. In the History of the Hundred of Thingoe (1838) an extract from it relating to that Hundred is given on pp. xii.-xvii.
[46], 1. Hugh the subsacrist. Jocelin says that Samson appointed Hugh subsacrist to William Wiardel, and shortly after (p. 47) made Samson the precentor sacrist. But this arrangement was probably short-lived, for the Gesta Sacristarum (Arnold, ii. 290) says Hugh succeeded William as sacrist, and gives a lengthy list of the works he carried out in the church. In 1198, when the body of St. Edmund was examined, Hugh was present, and is described as sacrist (see p. 172).
[50], 16. Omnia Cæsar erat. Lucan, Pharsalia, iii. 108.
[52], 5. Summa petit livor. Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 369.
[52], 8. 1 John iv. 1.
[52], 18. James ii. 13.
[54], 9. School of Melun (Meludinensium). John of Salisbury calls a scholar of Melun "Meludensis." Peter Abelard opened there, early in the twelfth century, a celebrated school for teaching Dialectic.