[58] From Ritson’s Ancient Songs and Ballads.
[59] Short History of the English People. ‘The Latin poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes,’ form a volume edited by the laborious Mr. Thomas Wright for the Camden Society in 1841.
[60] Cf. Tomline and Rokewode, Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century.
[61] Rapin, History of England, vol. i. p. 256.
[62] The old metrical romance of Richard Cœur de Lyon has a similar reference to the Holy Land expedition—
‘The cuppes fast abouten yede,
With good wyn, pyement and clarré.’
[63] Marks and Monograms, p. 58.
[64] Took in mind = was offended. For-think = repent. Bede = give. Yede = travel.
[65] See Aspin’s Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of England; Maddox: History of the Exchequer; Burton: Annals.
[66] Neckam.