[524] The uppermost garment of the priest, covering the rest entirely.
[525] Those who officiated were enjoined to fold up their garments.
[526] It was customary to hold a short chapter immediately after primes.
[527] Odo, second abbat of Clugny, was founder of the Clugniac rule in the tenth century. Odilo was elected the fifth abbat of Clugny in 994.
[528] Godfrey was prior of Winchester from A.D. 1082 to 1107. His verses in commendation of the chief personages of England are in the manner of those already inserted on Serlo abbat of Gloucester. Many of his epigrams have very considerable merit.
[529] He probably has Henry Huntingdon in view, who wrote a History of England shortly after him.
[530] Terentii Andria, i. 1.
[531] What these were is unknown, as it is believed there is no MS. of them now to be met with.
[532] “The emperor Henry V. died on the 23rd of May, A.D. 1125; and in September, A.D. 1126, king Henry returned from Normandy, with his daughter the empress.”—Hardy.
[533] “The union of the kingdoms under Egbert did not take place for several years after his accession in 802.”—Hardy.