[Page 49, l. 15.] pall, a covering thrown over the dead.
[Page 49, l. 23.] ill-favoured, with unpleasant features.
[Page 50, l. 28.] “till I be shriven of the priest,” “till my sins have been confessed to a priest, and I have been absolved.”
[Page 50, l. 33.] wise, fashion.
[Page 51, l. 14.] divers, several, sundry.
[Pegs 51, l. 28.] samite, a kind of silk stuff.
[Page 52, l. 4.] wist, knew.
[Page 52, l. 30.] Sir Galahad, son of Sir Lancelot, the truest of knights in thought and deed.
[Page 53, l. 16.] White Abbey. The Benedictines wore black garments. This abbey belonged, no doubt, to one of the other orders of monks.
[Page 53, l. 28.] Mass. A service of the Catholic Church. There was, of course, only one Church in those days, Protestantism being of much later date.