[41] “Mobiliers.”
[42] “This may account for the omission of any recorded founder or benefactor in connection with either the work of the north transept or of this tower; for it may be generally observed, with respect to the buildings of the Middle Ages, that, when they were carried on by their monasteries no record is preserved of the work, but only when some considerable portion of it, as a tower, a transept, or the vaulting of an aisle, was undertaken at the expense of an individual.”—Willis’s Report, p. 10.
[43] “The English eastern crypts are Canterbury, Winchester, Gloucester, Rochester, Worcester;—all founded before 1085. After this they were discontinued, except as a continuation of former ones, as at Canterbury and Rochester. The Early English crypt of the Lady-chapel at Hereford is an exception.”—Willis, Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral, p. 71, note.
[44] “Port strictly means an enclosed place for sale or purchase—a market.”—Kemble.
[45] Angl.-Sax. Chron., ed. Thorpe, s. ann. 1055. Another version of the Chronicle asserts that the minster was burned, and it is probable that it was greatly ruined. (See post, Bishop Losing.)
[46] Sax. Chron., ad ann. 1056.
[47] Milman, Hist. of Latin Christianity, iii. 455.
[48] Collier, Eccles. Hist., bk. v. cent. 12.
[49] Wilkins, Concil. Mag. Brit. i. p. 76, quoted by Britton.
[50] Reg. Orleton—quoted by the Rev. John Webb, in his notes on the Swinfield Roll. It was in the time of Bishop Orleton that the canonization was decreed.