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.


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