[1] Also between Hitchin and Cambridge, at Clothall, in Herts, in the Chiltern Hills, on the steep side of the Sussex Downs, in Clun Forest, in Carmarthenshire, and in Wilts.

[2] Spinneys are plantations of trees growing closely together.

[3] A diocese is the district over which a bishop rules.

[4] In the Fens.

[5] When we speak of Saxon work in buildings we mean work done between the time of King Cnut and the Norman Conquest—the first half of the eleventh century.

[6] The Cistercian houses here in England, however, were always known as abbeys, though Citeaux, their head-quarters, was in France.

[7] founded, that is, established.

[8] found, that is, discovered.

[9] feaden, that is, feed.

[10] pullen, that is, poultry.

[11] The Jews were expelled from England A.D. 1290.

[12] That is, whipped at a cart's tail.

[13] Terra-cotta is a compound of pure clay, fine sand, or powdered flint.

[14] See the picture on p. 162.

[15] Jacobean means of the time of James I and on to James II.