‘In the person of the great Edward,’ says Freeman, ‘the work of reconciliation is completed. Norman and Englishman have become one under the best and greatest of our later Kings, the first who, since the Norman entered our land, . . . followed a purely English policy.’
The three children; William I and II, and Henry I.
The transept; of Canterbury Cathedral, after Becket’s death named the ‘Martyrdom.’
Nor again; See the Early Plantagenets, by Bishop Stubbs: one of the very few masterpieces among the shoal of little books on great subjects in which a declining literature is fertile.
Britons on each side sea; Armorica and Cornwall, Wales and Strathclyde, all share in the great Arthurian legend.
Justinian; ‘Edward,’ says Dr. Stubbs, ‘is the great lawgiver, the great politician, the great organiser of the mediaeval English polity:’ (Early Plantagenets).
Keep thy Faith; ‘Pactum serva’ may be still seen inscribed on the huge stone coffin of Edward I.
The keels of Guienne . . . Adria’s dyes; The ships of Gascony, of the Hanse Towns, of Genoa, of Venice, are enumerated amongst those which now traded with England.
Malvasian nectar; ‘Malvoisie,’ the sweet wine of the Southern Morea, gained its name from Monemvasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, its port of shipment.
Sendal; A thin rich silk. Samite; A very rich stuff, sometimes wholly of silk, often crimson, interwoven with gold and silver thread, and embroidered. Tarsien; Silken stuff from Tartary.