^{page 207 note *} Rationale Div. Officiorum, lib. vii. c. 38.

^{page 207 note †} Idem.

^{page 207 note ‡} Licquet, Hist, de Norm. torn. i. p. 149. Fallue, Hist, de la Ville et de l'Abbaye de Fécamp, p. 86.

^{page 208 note *} “Sepultus est in stillicidio ecclesiæ quod vivens humiliter et instanter postulaverat.”—Gall. Christ, tom. x. p. 872.

^{page 208 note †} Was it not rather to be considered an act of humility and self-abasement? Such a reason at least we find ascribed by Roger of Wendover, and also Matthew of Westminster, to St. Swithin's similar desire to be interred “exposed to the feet of the passers-by, and to the dropping of the eaves from above.”—W. M. W.

^{page 208 note ‡} Liber Leg. Salicæ, tit. 17.

^{page 208 note §} Div. Off. Explicatio, cap. clix.

^{page 208 note ‖} Rationale, lib. vii.

^{page 210 note *} Johannes Scotus. Vide Will. of Malmsbury.