[21] Cardinal Newman's Historical Sketches, vol. i. p. 266: The Northmen and Normans in England and Ireland.
[22] Sara Coleridge.
[23] As the illustration of an Age, Bede's History has been well compared by Cardinal Manning with the Fioretti di S. Francesco, that exquisite illustration of the thirteenth century.
[24] The motto of the University of Oxford.
[25] Tacitus.
[26] St. John of Beverley.
NOTES.
[Page xxxvi]. The Irish Mission in England during the seventh century was one of the great things of history.