[312] Vita S. Godrici, pp. 332, 333.
[316] The earlier one; that of the Harleian MSS. which (Mr. Stevenson thinks) was twice afterwards expanded and decorated by him.
[323] Reginald wants to make “a wonder incredible in our own times,” of a very common form (thank God) of peaceful death. He makes miracles in the same way of the catching of salmon and of otters, simple enough to one who, like Godric, knew the river, and every wild thing which haunted it.
[330] That of the Salisbury Manual is published in the “Ecclesiologist” for August 1848, by the Rev. Sir W. H. Cope, to whom I am indebted for the greater number of these curious facts.
[331] I owe these facts to the courtesy of Mr. John Stuart, of the General Register Office, Edinburgh.
[333] “History of England,” vol. iii. p. 256, note.