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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
Some ten years ago, there was brought to me in Bristol a bundle of dirty and ragged old parchments, which I bought on the chance of their proving to have some interest when straightened out and cleared of dust and dirt. They were evidently parts of a service book of some kind, and they had on them some writing in an ordinary hand of the middle of the sixteenth century. I did what I could to put them in order, and then I showed them to Dr. Warner at the British Museum.
page 135 note 1 Ps. cxviii. 13, Old Latin, and Gallican Psalter; Vulgate, eversus sum; Jerome, pellebar; lxx, άνετράπην.
page 137 note 1 This verse is found in this place in the ninth-century Antiphoner printed in the Benedictine edition of the works of St. Gregory the Great. It is found also in the St. Gall MS. 339 of the tenth century, Einsiedeln 121 (tenth-eleventh), and Montpellier H. 159 (eleventh).
page 139 note 1 De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae, ed. 1729, p. 209.
page 139 note 2 The Auctor Anonymus II of the Lambeth Library, a contemporary of the martyr, says that already in his time people would think it gravely wrong to speak of ‘going to Canterbury’ or ‘leaving Canterbury’; they spoke of ‘going to St. Thomas’, ‘leaving St. Thomas’. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and the derivation of the ordinary word ‘canter’ from the ambling pace of the pilgrims, may suggest some exaggeration in these statements.
page 139 note 3 Parker states his view of Becket's attitude in one pregnant sentence: ‘Intolerabili arrogantia, et supra regiam authoritatem iuraque publica, magisque quam christianae aut ecclesiasticae libertatis immunitas divino iure postulat, se extulerat.’
page 140 note 1 The action of King Henry, in summoning and condemning the archbishop, might in this age, when prophecies of the duration of the war and the extinction of the Kaiser are found in ancient writings, be regarded as foreseen and foretold in the Westminster Sequence, stanza 20, Licet non compareat.
page 142 note 1 I do not find any variant from the ut in stanza 18.
page 142 note 2 The apparent departure from syllabic fidelity, eight syllables in place of seven, is explained on page 143.
page 144 note 1 Frere, Winchester Troper (H. B. S. viii), xxi. It should be carefully noted that this story assigns the priority in the composition of Sequence poems to France, not to Germany, to use modern names.
page 144 note 2 Blume and Bannister, vol. 54, no. 199.Google Scholar
page 145 note 1 Bl. and B., vol. 54, no. 143.Google ScholarPubMed
page 145 note 2 H. B. S., Westminster Missal, vol. 1, col. 55.
page 147 note 1 Other stanzas are quoted on p. 143.
page 149 note 1 Arcos in the original.
page 150 note 1 Migne, , P. L. ci, col. 713-848Google Scholar, and also among his letters and other writings. One result of the search is a realization of the barefaced copying of phrases and ideas and whole lines from another great Englishman, Aldhelm.
page 150 note 2 See page 144.
page 152 note 1 Encyclopaedia Britannica says he was canonized by the antipope Pascal III at the instance of the Emperor Frederick I, and Louis XI of France gave strict orders that the feast of the saint be observed. Migne calls him only Beatus.
page 154 note 1 Evidently a Wessex order of precedence.
page 154 note 2 H. B. S., vol. xvi, coll. 27, 57; B. Mus. Tib. B. viii.
page 155 note 1 Whether this means Charlemagne or his son Karl, who died three years before him, does not matter for our present purpose.
page 155 note 2 Isa. xxii. 22.Google Scholar
page 156 note 1 Migne, , P. L. ci, col. 465.Google Scholar
page 156 note 2 This codex, with a full description of its contents, and an assignment to Bede of all the parts which follow the mention of his name, has been found in the cathedral church of Cologne, cod. 106.
page 156 note 3 Church of our Fathers, iv, 25.Google Scholar
page 158 note 1 Church of our Fathers, i, 63.