| [224] | This would be some 25 miles. |
| [225] | From Brandon to Brandon Creek Bridge by the Little Ouse is about 13 or 14 miles, and thence up the Great Ouse by Littleport about 8 miles. |
| [226] | There is a place called Turbetsea House, to the east of Ely and near Sandy’s cut. |
| [227] | See [note] on page [45]. This well has never been known to be frozen over. Enquiries on the spot would warrant the assertion that this is correct as to its condition during a century past. |
| [228] | French, check (chess-board.) |
| [229] | The Little Ouse. |
| [230] | Borh, security. The Borhman may mean the principal man, who took suretyship in the Hundred. Every free Saxon had to be in surety (borh.) See Kemble’s Saxons in England, under “Tithing and Hundred;” also Turner’s History of Anglo Saxons, “Let every lord have his household in his own borh.” Law of Edgar. |
| [231] | Amalfi is an ancient city and seaport on the gulf of Salerno. It was one of the great Republics of Italy, and the rival of Venice and Genoa. The Amalfians traded to every known part of the world—among them were princely merchants. Of Amalfi it is said— “her coins, Silver and gold, circled from clime to clime; From Alexandria southward to Sennaar, And eastward, through Damascus and Cabul, And Samarcand, to thy great wall Cathay.” |
| [232] | ? atrabilarious (melancholic.) |
| [233] | See page [48]. |