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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Freeman, Norman Conquest, i. 321. The Empire, of course, means that great medieval constitution of Central Europe corresponding very roughly indeed to Germany. The German Empire, as we know it, only dates from 1870.
[2] This important matter, with its bearing upon the Palatinate Power, was first noticed by Mr. K. C. Bayley, Victoria County History, ii. 137.
[3] See Dr. Lapsley’s book, The County Palatine of Durham, which forms a very able survey of the development of the whole system.
[4] Dr. Lapsley describes Boldon Book in the Victoria County History of Durham, vol. i. See also ii. 179.
[5] See Dr. Bradshaw’s account of the Black Death and its effect in the Victoria County History, ii. 209-222.
[6] No account of the legends of Durham would be complete without some note upon Robert Surtees’ ballads, several of which he foisted upon the unsuspecting Walter Scott as genuine antiques. Perhaps the most weird and effective is the one generally known as the "Legend of Sir John le Spring," the scene of which is in Houghton, the alma mater of the poet’s own schoolboy days. One or two of the verses, which are well known in the North, run: