[801] Wilkins, D., Concilia, 1737, vol. 1, p. 693.
[802] Brink, B. ten, Early English Literature, trans. Kennedy, 1883, p. 205.
[803] First advanced by Morton, Ancren Riwle, Introd. pp. xii-xv; it is supported neither by tradition nor by documentary evidence.
[804] Dalgairns, Introd. to Hylton, Scale of Perfection, 1870, thinks it possible that the author was a Dominican friar.
[805] Comp. throughout Ancren Riwle, edit. Morton for the Camden Soc. 1853.
[806] That is bands or ligatures to be used after the letting of blood.
[807] Old English Homilies, First Series, edit. Morris, 1867, p. 268.
[808] Hali Meidenhad, edit. Cockayne, for the Early English Text Soc., 1866.
[809] Comp. Revelationes Gertrudianae ac Mechtildianae, edit. Oudin, for the Benedictines of Solesmes 1875, 2 vols., which contain the works of these three nuns; Mechthild von Magdeburg, Offenbarungen, oder Das Fliessende Licht der Gottheit, edit. Gall Morel, 1869; Preger, W., Geschichte der deutschen Mystik im Mittelalter, 1874, vol. 1, pp. 70-132.
[810] Revelationes, etc. edit. Oudin, vol. 1, Praefatio.