The Gate of Remembrance / The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury

by Frederick Bligh Bond

[45] Itinerary, vol. iii., p. 103.

[46] Undertaken in 1503, on the election of Pius III.

[47] This must be a mistake. The south is the Nave side.—F.B.B.

[48] This seems perfectly true. The great piers buckled under the weight of the tower, and bowed inwards, probably pushing the vault, and cracking it by compression.—F.B.B.

[49] Gave in towards the crossing would be more expressive of the fact.—F.B.B.

[50] Bere was the friend of Erasmus.

[51] This appears to be in allusion to the note in the Cannon MS. which J.A. says he had not then noticed.

[52] I.e., did not keep the canonical hours, etc.—F.B.B.

[53] I.e., the old system.

[54] Not mentioned in Cesare Foligno's Story of Padua, but there is a chapel of St. Mark figured in a mediæval map of the town. The mention of this saint tends to explain the lions mentioned in the 1916 script, which had hitherto seemed an incongruous feature, if not quite out of place on a chapel of Our Lady.—F.B.B.