[40] Ingulph, Hist. Croyland. In later times the ceremony seems to have been universally religious:—see, for example, the dubbing of Don Quixote. We cannot doubt, however, but that Ingulph knew the practice of his own times. Probably the Normans, whose conversion to Christianity was not of very old standing, still retained a flavour of heathenism.
[41] It is interesting to trace the physical changes of the island; the formidable swamps above mentioned are now converted into the richest land in England, and we doubt whether Peterborough, or Lincoln, then a centre of trade and commerce, be now accessible to any vessel more dignified than a coal–barge or an eight–oared cutter.
[42] “Now (A.D. 1692) Bulldyke Gate, on the south side of the monastery.”—Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle.
[43] Hugo Candidus.
[44] Bower continued the Scotichronicon of Fordun. The whole work is usually quoted under the latter name.
[45] Tytler, History of Scotland, vol. i.
[46] Remainder.
[47] Tidings.
[48] Recovered entirely.
[49] In anger.