[40] Cf. Fosbroke, British Monachism, who cites MS. Cott. Tiber, B. 13.
[41] Several examples are given in the article in Nares’ Glossary, edited by the distinguished antiquaries J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, Esq., and the late Mr. Thomas Wright.
[42] Shakespeare, Othello, act ii. scene 3.
[43] See Cotton MSS., Tib., b. i. and Tib., b. iv. Allen, Hist. of Lambeth Chronicle of Florence of Worcester.
[44] Another interpretation is given in Book of Days, sub., Dec. 13. See engraving in Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lx. 1790, pt. 3, p. 217.
[45] Abuses Stript and Whipt, 1618.
[46] Anglo-Saxons, lib. vii. ch. x.
[47] Palgrave: Hist. of Anglo-Saxons, ch. xiv.
[48] Fuller: Church Hist. of Britain, lib. iii. § 1. The indictment is endorsed by Mr. Freeman upon the authority of William of Malmesbury: ‘The English spent the night in drinking and singing, the Normans in prayer and confession of their sins’—Norman Conquest of England, iii. 241.