[42] Sternberg, p. 132 (see also Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 12); Von Alpenburg, p. 63. See a similar story in Grimm, “Teut. Myth.” p. 276, from Börner, “Folk-tales of the Orlagau.” In the latter case, however, the punishment seems to have been inflicted for jeering.
[43] Jahn, p. 177, quoting Temme, “Volkssagen”; Ovid, “Metam.” l. iii. fab. 3; Tacitus, “Germ.” c. 40.
[44] Roger of Wendover, “Flowers of History,” sub anno 1057. I quote from Dr. Giles' translation.
[45] See his Presidential Address to the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archæologists' Field Club, 1886.
[46] MS. marked D. This entry is an interpolation in a list of mayors and sheriffs in a different handwriting. There are several such interpolations in the volume. Coventry possesses a number of MS. volumes of annals, one of which (see below) seems to date from the latter part of the sixteenth century, and the rest from the latter part of the seventeenth. In the MS. marked F. (considered by Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A., to be in the handwriting of John Tipper, of Bablake, Coventry, a schoolmaster and local antiquary at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries), and also in the MS. in the British Museum (Additional MSS. 11,364), the entry runs simply:—“1678 Michaell Earle (Mercer) Mayor; Francis Clark, George Allatt, Sherriffs. This year ye severall Companies had new streamers, and attended ye Mayor to proclaim ye faire, and each company cloathed one boy or two to augment ye show.” The latter MS. elsewhere speaks of the story of Godiva's ride as “comonly known, and yearly comemorated by the Mayor, Aldermen, and ye severall companies.”
[47] This statue used to be decked out on the occasion of the procession in the long peruke and neckcloth of the reign of Charles II. See T. Ward, “Collections for the Continuation of Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire” (2 vols., fol. MS., Brit. Mus., Additional MSS., Nos. 29,264, 29,265), vol. ii. fol. 143.
[48] MS. marked E, Coventry, seventeenth century. A careful examination of the language of Roger of Wendover, Matthew Paris, John of Brompton, and Matthew of Westminster, shows that Roger of Wendover's account is the source of the other three, Matthew Paris copying most closely, and John of Brompton most freely. John of Brompton and Matthew of Westminster omit the escort. Their statement as to Godiva's being unseen refers to the hair which covered her; and the latter informs us, with a touch of rhetoric, that Leofric regarded it as a miracle.
[49] Rudder, p. 307. The Rev. W. Taprell Allen, M.A., Vicar of St. Briavels, has been kind enough to supply me with the correction from local inquiries and intimate acquaintance with the traditions and affairs of the parish extending over many years. See also “Gent. Mag. Lib.” (Manners and Customs), p. 230.
[50] Liebrecht, p. 104.
[51] Burton, “Nights,” vol. ix. p. 255; Burton, “Supp. Nights,” vol. iii. p. 570 (Appendix by Mr. W. A. Clouston). Kurroglú flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century.