Footnotes
[1] = 1509. By a reverse process Bruno Amorbach writes 10507 for 1507.
[2] At this point and again later about Chezal-Benoît I have made much use of Dom Berlière's Mélanges d'histoire bénédictine, 3^e série, 1901.
[3] Thus the family of d'Illiers at this time almost monopolized the see of Chartres; members of it holding the bishopric consecutively for fifty years, the deanery for a hundred, the arch-deaconry and the rich abbey of Bona Vallis also for fifty.
[4] Arcturum cum Britannis exspectatis. For another allusion to Arthur, see Pace, De Fructu, p. 83.
[5] ortus.
[6] stellae emuncturam et purgamentum.
[7] quae legere literas vernaculae linguae satis expedite nouit, nunc per patrem imbuitur Latinis.