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Footnotes:
[1] Ducange.
[2] The laws of Hoel the Good.
[3] Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester.
[4] Ducange.
[5] Mezeray, ii. 121.
[6] Sloane MS. No. 2530, xxvi. D.; a manuscript giving details of the grades of students and masters of fence, and of the ceremonial attending taking their degrees. The oath runs, “First you shall swear, so help you God and halidome, and by all the christendome which God gave you at the fount stone, and by the cross of this sword which doth represent unto you the cross which our Saviour suffered his most painful deathe upon,” &c.
[7] Socrates’ oath, by the cabbage, μὰ την κραμβην is given in Athenæus, ib. ix. p. 370.