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[303]. Ibid., loc. cit.

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[306]. Dugdale, “Monasticon Anglicanum,” London, 1819, vol. ii, pp. 184, 185; also extract from Cotton MS., Nero D vii, on p. 217.

[307]. De vit. abbot.

[308]. Thomas Wright, “On Antiquarian Researches in the Middle Ages,” in Archæologia, vol. xxx, London, 1844, pp. 444–446; cut on page 444.

[309]. Collin de Plancy, “Dictionnaire Infernal,” Bruxelles, 1845, p. 415.

[310]. Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 10.

[311]. Andreæ Bacii, “De gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis” (Latin translation by Wolfgang Gabelchover of Italian original), Francofurti, 1603, p. 103.