[106]. Herein is plainly confirmed the view we took of Mr. Froude’s theory of might and right in our last article, “Mr. Froude on the Revival of Romanism,” Dec., 1877.
[107]. The Great Hall at Westminster, so called from William Rufus, who built it (1097) for a banqueting-hall—and kept his word.
[108]. See, for the true character of this much-maligned and really lamb-like sovereign, Froude’s History of England. Yet—so harsh is the judgment of men—it is this very prince of whose robber—we should say resumption of the church lands the Protestant antiquary, Sir Henry Spelman, writes: “God’s blessing, it seemeth, was not on it; for within four years after he had received all this, and had ruined and sacked three hundred and seventy-six of the monasteries, and brought their substance to his treasury, ... he was drawn so dry that Parliament was constrained to supply his wants with the residue of all the monasteries of the kingdom, great ones and illustrious, ... by reason whereof the service of God was not only grievously wounded and bleedeth at this day, but infinite works of charity were utterly cut off and extinguished.”
[109]. Riding the wild mare—i.e., playing at see-saw. The kneeling of the ox refers to an old English superstition that at midnight on Christmas Eve the oxen would be found kneeling in their stalls.
[110]. A peculiar peal of bells rung at Christmas-tide on the church-bells in Languedoc—doubtless, like Noel, from natalis.
[111]. Du Darwinisme: ou l’homme singe. Paris, 1877, page 170.
[112]. On the Intrusion of certain Professors of Physical Science into the Region of Faith and Morals: An address delivered to the members of the Manchester Academia of the Catholic Religion by J. Stores Smith, Esq.
[113]. Manuel d’une Corporation Chrétienne, par Léon Harmel. Tours, Marne, Paris: au Secrétariat de l’œuvre des Cercles Catholiques d’Ouvriers, 10 Rue du Bac. 1877.
[114]. 1 Tim. iii. 7.
[115]. Cyprian, Epist. lxvii.