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{241d} ”Ibid.,” p. 365.

{241e} ”Ibid.,” p. 299.

{241f} ”Placit de quo Warranto,” p. 404.

{241g} ”Hundred Rolls,” p. 317.

{241h} For the years 1281 to 1301.

{241i} Letter from Rev. R. W. Sibthorpe to Dr. Bloxham, ”Life of Sibthorpe,” (1880), p. 138.

{242} Stukeley, ”Itin. Cur.,” p. 29. The pageants of Corpus Christi day are described by Dugdale, and in the ”Northumberland Household Book,”

1512.

{243a} Acta Regia. Quoted by Oliver, ”Religious Houses,” p. 52, note 68. The corruption which was gradually eating its way into the monastic life came, in some cases, to be felt by those who were admitted to their intimacy. The author of a poem contemporary with Chaucer, in the 14th century, says,

I was a friere ful many a day, Therefor the soth I wot; But when I saw that their lyvinge Accorded not to their prechynge, Of I cast my friere clothynge, And wyghtly went my way.

Quoted, Jusseraud's ”Way-faring Life of 14th Century.”

{243b} Cottonian MS. ”Cleopatra,” E.

{244a} Cowper, ”The Task,” 1. 206.

{244b} ”Quarterly Review,” July, 1891, p. 126.

{246} Referring to these portions of screen, Mr. G. E. Jeans, author of ”Murray's Handbook to Lincolns.h.i.+re,” says ”Kirkstead Abbey, most valuable Early English screen, one of the earliest in England” (”Lincs. N. & Q.,”