[6] Wookey, Antrum Ogonis.
[7] Uphill church.
[8] Flat and Steep Holms.
[9] Mr Beard, of Banwell, called familiarly "the Professor," but in reality the guide.
[10] Egyptian god of silence.
[11] Halt of the French army at the sight of the ruins.
[12] The Roman way passes immediately under Banwell.
[13] The abbey was built by the descendants of Becket's murderers. Almost at the brink of the channel, being secured from it only by a narrow shelf of rocks called Swallow-clift, William de Courteneye, about 1210, founded a friary of Augustine monks at Worsprynge, or Woodspring, to the honour of the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, and St Thomas à Becket. William de Courteneye was a descendant of William de Traci, and was nearly related to the three other murderers of à Becket, to whom this monastery was dedicated.
[14] See the late Sir Charles Elton's pathetic description of the deaths of his two sons at Weston, whilst bathing in his sight; one lost in his endeavour to save his brother.
[15] Called "The Wolves," from their peculiar sound.