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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
In reflecting on the works of several writers on our British antiquities who have gone before us, the public must allow great merit to the laudable zeal and painful industry shewn in their researches. It is, however, to be lamented, that, though a great deal of useful knowledge and curious information is to be derived from them, yet an injudicious mixture of matter in some, an imperfect collection in others, and an ill arrangement in most, have left much to be reformed, and much to be supplied, by the care and exactness of other writers.
page 359 note * See plates XXVIII. XXIX. XXX.
page 360 note [a] It appears from Dugdale's Baronage (I. 463.) under the name Port, that Hugh de Portu was in possession of the lordship of Warnford at the time of the general survey by William the Conqueror, and that Adam the descendant of Hugh did not enjoy it till the reign of Henry the Second, who also possessed it during the reigns of Richard and John; and indeed the style of architecture in the present church corresponds with the age of Henry the Second, or his immediate successors, better than with that of the Conqueror, as the round and pointed arches are promiscuously used both within and without.
page 362 note [b] “Praedicto vere patri facile erat in Dei opere tot et tantas impensas facere. Nam cum novem monasteriorum pater, et plurimarum et amplarum regionum et divitiarum possessor esset, in tanto honore et reverentia habebatur, ut quamplurimi abbates et abbatissae se suaque coenobia suae custodiae subjicerent et commendarent. De Roma quoque et Italia et Francia et de aliis terris ubicunque invenire poterat, cementarios et quoslibet alios industrios artifices secum retinuerat, et ad opera sua sacienda secum in Anglia adduxerat.” Lib. i. cap. 5.
page 362 note [c] “Denique citra Alpes nullum tale tunc temporis reperiri poterat.” Cap. 3.
page 362 note [d] “Orta inter ipsum regem Ecfridum et reverendissimum antistitem Wilfridum dissentione, pulsus idem antistes à sede sui episcopatûs.” Beda, lib. iv. cap. 12.
page 362 note [e] “Wilfridus primos Meanvirorum duces ac milites sacrosancto fonte abluebat, et caeteram plebem tempore sequente baptizabat. Edilwach donavit Wilfrido terram octoginta septem familiarum, ubi suos homines, qui exules vagabantur, recipere posset, vocabulo Selseu : ibi fundavit Wilfridus monasterium ac regulari vitâ instituit. Ipse illis in partibus annos quinque, id est, usque ad mortem Ecfridi regis, officium episcopatûs exercebat.” Beda, lib. iv. cap. 13.
“Apud australes Saxones Wilfridus consedit, quos ad fidem Christianam cum convertisset ab idolorum cultu, pontifex eorum primus factus est, et ecclesiae cathedralis jecit fundamenta apud Selseu.” Godwin de Praesulibus, p. 654.
page 363 note [f] “Wilfridus in abbatissae officio eam gregemque illic adunatum consecravit, locum sua dispositione constituit, seque in omnibus solicitum exhibuit.” Bentham's Ely, p. 24. note from the Ely Historian MS.
page 365 note [g] The proportions of which are 52 feet by 48, and which probably was thirty feet high. The height of the columns is 25 feet and fix inches.
