[30]. The boat is rotted nearly away, the bows alone remain tolerably entire.—S. B.-G.
[31]. Alas! here the wrecker has been at work. There were carved bench-ends with curious heads, technically called poppy-heads, but unlike any I have seen elsewhere, unique, I believe. These heads have been cut off, thrown away and the bench-ends stuck against the screen. The seats are now of deal.
[32]. Mark vii. 21; cf. also Prov. xxiii. 6, xxviii. 22; Matt. vi. 23; Luke xi. 34; Matt. xx. 15.
[33]. How a thing can be “chronicled in a myth” is not easy to understand. Myths not infrequently get recorded, not chronicled.—S. B.-G.
[34]. This sermon is given approximately only. Mr. Hawker always preached extempore. It is a restoration; and a restoration from notes can never equal the original.
[35]. Afterwards Lord Portsmouth.
[36]. Four lines in the last verse I have supplied, as the copy sent me was defective.—S. B.-G.
[37]. There is considerable doubt as to the origin of the name Sangraal, Sangrail or Sangreal. It has been variously derived from Sang-réal, True Blood, and from Sanc-Grazal, the provençal for Holy Cup. The latter is the most probable derivation.
[38]. On 1st Oct., Lammas Day, the eucharistic bread was anciently made of the new corn of the recent harvest. This custom Mr. Hawker revived.
[39]. Institutes, lib. ii., c. 2, sect. 12.