[28] Gesta Pontificum, Rolls ed. p. 171. Another narrator of the story of St Elphege and the Danes is Henry of Huntingdon (Rolls ed. p. 179); he says nothing of the pestilence, but describes the sack of Canterbury. Eadmer also (Historia Novorum in Anglia, Rolls ser. 81, p. 4) omits the pestilence.
[29] Quoted by Higden, Polychronicon, Rolls ed. II. 18. This may have been one of Henry of Huntingdon’s poems which were extant in Leland’s time, but are now lost.
[30] Polychronicon, II. 166.
[31] Marchand, Étude sur quelques épidémies et endémies du moyen âge (Thèse), Paris, 1873, p. 49, with a reference to Fuchs, “Das heilige Feuer im Mittelalter” in Hecker’s Annalen, vol. 28, p. 1, which journal I have been unable to consult.
[32] Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hiberniae, in Rolls edition of his works, No. 21, vol. V.
[33] “Itinerarium Walliae” and “Descriptio Kambriae,” Opera, vol. VI.
[34] Polychronicon, I. 410.
[35] William of Newburgh, sub anno 1157, I. 107.
[36] Europe during the Middle Ages, chap. IX.
[37] I have used for this purpose Merewether and Stephens’ History of Boroughs, 3 vols. 1835.