[I] See note I. at the end of the poem, [p. 196].—Ed.
[J] The Nave of the Church having been reserved at the Dissolution, for the use of the Saxon Cure, is still a parochial Chapel; and, at this day, is as well kept as the neatest English Cathedral.—W. W. 1815.
[K] "At a small distance from the great gateway stood the Prior's Oak, which was felled about the year 1720, and sold for 70l. According to the price of wood at that time, it could scarcely have contained less than 1400 feet of timber."—W. W. 1815.
This note is quoted from Whitaker.—Ed.
The place where this Oak tree grew is uncertain. Whitaker says it stood "at a small distance from the great gateway." This old entrance or gateway to the Abbey was through a part of the modern and now inhabited structure of Bolton Hall, under the Tower; and the old sexton at the Abbey told me that the tree stood near that gateway, at some distance from the ruins of the Abbey.—Ed.
[L] Of Wharfedale at Bolton, Henry Crabb Robinson says, in his Diary (September 1818), "This valley has been very little adorned, and it needs no other accident to grace it than sunshine."—Ed.
[M] Compare the lines in the sonnet At Furness Abbey (composed in 1844)—
A soothing spirit follows in the way
That Nature takes, her counter-work pursuing.Ed.
[N] Roses still grow plentifully among the ruins, although they are not abundant in the district.—Ed.
[O] This is not topographical. No "warrior carved in stone" is now to be seen among the ruins of Bolton Abbey, whatever may have been the case in 1807; nor can Francis Norton's grave be discovered in the Abbey grounds.—Ed.