[11.] Sharon Turner.
[12.] Turner, ch. xii.
[13.] For the discussion of the time and circumstances of the introduction of French into law processes, see Craik, i. 117.
[14.] Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons, i. 199. For an admirable summary of the bardic symbolisms and mythological types exhibited in the story of Arthur, see H. Martin, Hist. de France, liv. xx.
[15.] Craik says, (i. 198,) "Or, as he is also called, Lawemon—for the old character represented in this instance by our modern y is really only a guttural, (and by no means either a j or a z,) by which it is sometimes rendered." Marsh says, "Or, perhaps, Lagamon, for we do not know the sound of y in this name."
[16.] Introduction to the Poets of Queen Elizabeth's Age.
[17.] So called from his having a regular district or limit in which to beg.
[18.] Spelled also Wycliffe, Wicliff, and Wyklyf.
[19.] Am. ed., i. 94.
[20.] Wordsworth, Ecc. Son., xvii.