| [84] | Harold was Earl of Eastangle and Essex about 1045, and was deservedly popular. |
| [85] | The Monks of Ely still clung to the idea that Harold was alive and that the report of his death was merely a ruse. |
| [86] | Here lies Harold the unhappy. |
| [87] | The first prior of Ely was Vincentius; his successors were mitred priors, they held the title Dominus, and in some reigns were summoned to parliament. |
| [88] | The Abbot and some of his monks are said eventually to have made submission to the Conqueror, and to have actually betrayed the defenders of the Camp. The Book of Ely (Liber Eliensis) is quoted, on this point, in the Appendix. [Note K]. |
| [89] | The successor of Thurstan was Theodwin, a Norman monk of Jumièges. |
| [90] | The religious, (like the Roman vestals) who broke their vows, were immured in a niche,—hence we have in Marmion (Canto II, “The Convent”) this verse— “And now that blind old Abbot rose, To speak the Chapter’s doom, On those the wall was to inclose, Alive, within the tomb.” |
| [91] | This Lord of Brunn (Bourn) was Morcard who, with Tolli and Algar, Earl of Holland, (S. Lincolnshire) fought against the Danes; these invaders, under Hubba, had entered Kesteven (the central division of Lincolnshire) in the Autumn of 870. There is a Hubba’s or Hubbard Bridge 4 miles south of Boston. |
| [92] | We have no record of a Lord of Brunn fighting at Ely; in the repulse of the Danes at Ely several English noblemen were engaged. (For account of the invasion under Hubba, the Danish attack of the Isle and the burning of Ely monastery, see Lib. Elien., lib. I., pp. 78-82.) |
| [93] | Ralph, the Timid, (a son of Drogo, Count of Mantes and of Eadward’s sister), was Earl of Worcestershire and also of Herefordshire in about 1050-1055. Ralph’s mother (Goda) after the death of her first husband, was married to Count Eustace; he visited the English Court in Sept., 1051. Eustace came to enrich himself out of English wealth and he was not disappointed—neither were his followers. |