2 (return) Mr. Park Harrison has collected some very interesting drawings from various Anglo-Saxon MSS., which afford striking parallels to the ornament on these and other capitals in the church. A reproduction of the drawing here referred to, and of others equally important, will be found in his "Pre-Norman Date."
3 (return) St. Frideswide: Two sermons preached in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, by H.G. Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, pp. 21-24.
4 (return) Mr. Rashdall's theory has, however, already been called in question by Mr. A.F. Leach, who (National Review, September 1896) asserts decisively that there were schools at Oxford even before Guimond's time, and that "Oxford is as much, there is every reason to believe, a natural growth from the schools and schoolmasters of St. Frideswide's as Paris from those of Notre Dame."
5 (return) Prior Robert published an abridgment of Pliny, addressed "to the studious, and especially to those in cloisters and schools." He also published another work on Jacob's Marriage, which he said he had written when he was himself a scholar and "a regent master."
Transcriber's Note: The cover image for this work has been created from the title page of the original printed text and is placed in the public domain.
