[10] Ed. Sparke Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores [1723].
[11] Professor Tout throws out the unlucky suggestion: 'the Wake, i.e. apparently the watchful one'.
[12] See the new Monasticon on Deeping Priory, and the rubric to Baldwin's charter. The true parentage of Baldwin fitz Gilbert will be shown infra in the paper on 'Walter Tirel and his wife'.
[13] Norman Conquest (1st Ed.), iv. 455-6.
[14] Norman Conquest (1st Ed.), iv. 484. Professor Tout, however, follows Mr Freeman, and accepts an earlier 'flight from England' as a fact. One must therefore insist that 'the whole story has no historical basis'.
[15] I am tempted, indeed, to suggest that Hugh may have had before him that lost local 'account of Hereward's doings', which was inserted (but, according to my own view, in an abbreviated form) into the earlier chronicle, according to Professor Earle (see Norm. Conq., iv. 461, note 3). This solution would explain everything, and would, if accepted, greatly increase the importance of Hugh's chronicle.
[16] Cf. William of Malmesbury in loco.
[17] Dictionary of National Biography.
[18] Appendix on 'the Legend of Hereward', ut supra.
[19] The names of the churches he bestowed on the Priory illustrate the constituents of the Honour of Bourne.