[107] History of the Holy Warre (1647), p. 254.
[108] General History of Scotland (1794), vol. ii. p. 266.
[109] Ingram’s Edit. of the Saxon Chronicle, 1823, p. 302. See also Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, tom. i. p. 264—and Gervase, in Leland’s Collectanea de Rebus Britannicis (Hearne’s Edit.), tom. i. p. 263. Dr. Lingard, in his History of England, vol. ii. p. 44 of 2d edit., states on the authority of Ordericus Vitalis, etc., the date of Lanfranc’s death as 1079, which, if correct, and not a mere misprint, would only add to the force of the argument in the text.
[110] Antiquities of Canterbury, vol. i. p. 42, and vol. ii. p. 169.
[111] Eadmeri Historia Novorum sive Sui Seculi, p. 9.
[112] History of Northampton, vol. i. p. 363.
[113] Bishop Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, edit. of 1744, p. 211.
[114] Ruel and Hartmann’s Collectio Conciliorum Illustratorum, 1675, tom. iv. p. 100. The Lombards had a similar law, see Lindenbrog’s Codex Legum Antiquarum, 1613, p. 609.
[115] Histoire de Bretagne, Paris, 1707, tom. i. p. 204.
[116] Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, tom. ii. pref. p. 32.