FOOTNOTES:

[1] Froude’s History of England.

[2] Seventeen Lectures (1887), p. 289.

[3] See below, Chap. iv.

[4] These figures, omitting shillings and pence, are from Valor Ecclesiasticus.

[5] Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, p. 146, 148.

[6] The only other exception is said to be Beaulieu.

[7] Pleas of the Forest, 1286. (Salt Collections, V, Pt. I, p. 162; VIII, p. 177.)

[8] Some very interesting examples of corrodies granted by Staffordshire monasteries are given in Monasticism in Staffordshire, p. 157–160.

[9] Dieulacres Chartulary, No. 99.