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Thursday, 24th May 1917
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
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page 190 note 1 Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. xxvii, p. 103, ‘Great Bookham Church ’. Ibid., vol. xviii, p. 80 : also, the Victoria History of Surrey, vol. iii, p. 67.
page 191 note 1 At Compton church, Surrey, in the near neighbourhood of Witley, the pre-Conquest tower has no ashlar dressings, the narrow loops and the quoins being of rubble.
page 191 note 2 Cf. Wotton, Surrey, where are similar early thirteenth century two-light windows, also inserted in the pre-Conquest south wall of the nave.
page 192 note 1 This would have been impossible, as well as undesirable, because of the existence of the thirteenth-century window.
page 194 note 1 I saw these before their deplorable destruction by workmen sent to colour-wash the church, and have a slight sketch of one—Abraham offering up Isaac, very similar to the paintings at Witley in style and technique.
page 194 note 2 All except Keymer are illustrated in Sussex Archaeological Collections. An account by myself of Hardham, with coloured illustrations, was published in The Archaeological Journal, vol. li. All these churches were held by Lewes Priory, and the paintings were perhaps executed by men trained in the Priory.
page 194 note 3 Cf. for what is evidently an ancient tradition as to the lethal weapon employed by Cain, the passage in Hamlet, v. i, ‘That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once ; how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! ’
page 198 note 1 There would seem to have been many contractions, with small letters over the others, and diphthongs : a P is fairly distinct.
page 199 note 1 I cannot remember having seen such thin firm outlines in any other ancient paintings.