^{page 107 note b} In Dr. Cox's Annals of St. Helen's Bishopsgate (see pages 5, 7, 8, 359), will be found some very interesting documents relating to this Nunnery; and, amongst them, an Ordinance of Alardus the Dean, Of the constituting of Nuns in this Church; the Will of Henry de Gloucester, Citizen and Goldsmith, leaving eleven marks to the Prioress and Convent to provide two monks to pray for his own soul and for that of his parents; Constitutions drawn up by the Dean, Reynolde Kentwode, and Chapter of S. Paul's, for the government of the sisters, in 1439; with many other details, partly drawn from Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ivGoogle Scholar. and partly from Mr. Hugo's Last Ten Years of S. Helen's.

^{page 107 note c} Alardus de Burnham, Dean of S. Paul's, succeeded to the Deanery circa 1204 died 14 Aug. 1216.

^{page 108 note a} Sic; qu. concedimus omitted.

^{page 108 note b} Sic.

^{page 109 note a} i.e. the Prioress elect, if debet be right; but probably quœ refers to the letters, and we should read debent: the manuscript, however, reads debet, as in the text.

^{page 109 note b} In the Roman Pontifical these versicles and responses occur, though in somewhat different order, in the Office De Benedictione Abbatissœ:

V'. Salvam fac ancillam tuam, Domine.

E'. Deus meus, sperantem in Te.

V'. Mitte ei, Domine, auxilium de Sancto.

R'. Et de Sion tuere earn.

V'. Nihil proficiat inimicus in ea.

E'. Et filius iniquitatis non apponat nocere ei.

V'. Esto ei, Domine, turris fortitudinis.

B'. A facie inimici.

V'. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

R'. Et clamor meus ad Te veniat.

V'. Dominus vobiscum.

R'. Et cum spiritu tuo.

^{page 111 note a} Sic.