[ [3] A diocese is the district over which a bishop rules.
[ [4] In the Fens.
[ [5] When we speak of Saxon work in buildings we mean work done between the time of King Cnut and the Norman Conquest—the first half of the eleventh century.
[ [6] The Cistercian houses here in England, however, were always known as abbeys, though Citeaux, their head-quarters, was in France.
[ [7] founded, that is, established.
[ [8] found, that is, discovered.
[ [9] feaden, that is, feed.
[ [10] pullen, that is, poultry.
[ [11] The Jews were expelled from England A.D. 1290.
[ [12] That is, whipped at a cart's tail.