1 History of Scotland, vol. i. p. 9.

2 Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," to which I am indebted for many of the facts recorded in this chapter.

3 Turner's Anglo-Saxons, vol. i. p 293.

4 A Catholic History of England. By William Bernard Mac Cabe. Carefully compiled from our earliest records, and purporting to be a literal translation of the writings of the old chroniclers, miracles, visions, &c. from the time of Gildas; richly illustrated with notes, which throw a clear, and in many instances a new light on what would otherwise be difficult and obscure passages.

5 Thierry's Norman Conquest; Turner's Anglo-Saxons, and the early English Chronicles.

6 Thierry's Norman Conquest.

7 Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," vol. 2, p. 248. Although we differ from this honest and able historian in many of the inferences he has drawn from undisputed facts, we believe no writer ever sat down with a firmer determination to do justice to the memory of the dead than Sharon Turner.

8 At page 277 of Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," vol. ii., is the commencement of a long and valuable note on the ancient lives of St. Dunstan, which are still extant.

9 Thierry's Norman Conquest. European Library edition. Vol. I. pages 82 and 83.

10 Turner's Anglo-Saxons, page 325, vol. ii. Edition, 1836.

11 William of Malmsbury.

12 Thierry's "Norman Conquest," p. 134, European Library edition.

13 Thierry's "Norman Conquest."

14 Thierry's "Norman Conquest," vol. i. p. 148.

15 Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England, vol. i. pp. 6, 49, 70. For the love and affection which is said to have existed between William and Matilda, we must refer our readers to the above work, to which we are indebted for these revolting facts.

16 Thierry's Norman Conquest, vol. i. p. 151.

17 Thierry, vol. ii. p. 154.

18 Thierry's "Norman Conquest."

19 Turner's Anglo-Saxons, vol. ii. p. 396.

20 Thierry's Norman Conquest, vol. i. p. 160.

21 "Lives of the Queens of England," by Agnes Strickland, vol. i. p. 31, 37.

22 "Lives of the Queens of England," by Agnes Strickland vol. i. p. 31, 37.

23 Thierry's Norman Conquest, vol. i. p. 175.

24 I had marked several passages in the translated poems of Beowulf, Judith, Cedmon, &c., which would require but little alteration to insure them a place amongst our choicest extracts; but am compelled to omit them, as they would occupy too much space, and scarcely be in keeping with the character of the present work.

25 See p. 61.

26 "A Groat's worth of Wit." No date.