Chapter 191
II. at pp. 455 — 509.
Page 347, line 9 from the bottom. " Throughout England."] — After these words, should be read the sentence in the next page from the edition of 15G3.
Page 347, line 6 from the bottom.] — " Forty-ninth" is substituted for Foxe's " fiftieth." Becket uas slain Dec. 29th, a.d. 1170, and the third year of Henry III. envied Oct. 27th, a, d. 1219. M. Paris (p. 310,) places the shrining of Becket under the year 1220.
Page 347, last line but one.] — Isabella was married to the earl of Marche, A.D. 1217. — L'Art de Ver. des Dates.
Page 348, line 1.]— William, earl of Pembroke, died in March a.d. 1219; Avhich occasioned the promotion of Hubert de Burgh, just before mentioned, and of Peter, bishop of Winchester, to be " regis et regni rector." — M. Paris, p. 304.
Page 348, line IS.]— Engelard de Ciconia, is, in M. Paris, called Engelard de Athie. This list has been corrected by Dugdale's Baronage.
Page 348, line 22. " Foukes, who fortified the castle of Bedford," 8:c.] — This fs out of place. Foukes de Breant for certain outrages in the neighbour- hood was condemned by the king's justices, sitting at Dunstable a. d. 1224, in a great sum of money. This occasioned his stizm-e of one of them, which led to the siege of Bedford Castle by the king's forces during seven weeks, at the end of which time it was taken by storm, on the Assumption, August 15tb, a.d. 1224. He did not leave England till the year a.d. 1228, soon after Bartholomew-tide (August 24th), as Dugdale shows in his Baronage, vol. i. p. 745. (See M. Paris, p. 320.)
Page 348, line 3 from the bottom.]— This second coronation took place on Whitsunday, May 17th, a.d. 1220. — M.Paris, p. 309.
Page 348, note (1).] — The passage in the text is from Hoveden. Page 349, line 8.]— M. Paris (p. 299, an. 1209) calls this bishop of Lincoln " Hugo, archidiaconus Wellensis :" Godwin, " Hugo Wallis, archidiaconus Wellensis." This story about his fine is in M. Paris, p. 299, an. 1217.
Page 349, line 13.] — Robert Curson is the famous preacher against usury, mentioned in the note in this Appendix on p. 318, note (1), and by bishop Grosthead at p. 530. He was an Englishman, chancellor of Paris, created by Innocent III. cardinal of St. Stephen in Ccelio Monte a.d. 1212, and died at Damietta a.d. 1218. — Moreri.
Page 349, line 15. " The life and acts of Pope Innocent III." &:c.]— From hence to p. 3G3 is a digression, the greater part of which falls chronologically rather under the preceding reign ; and at p. 350, line 28, Foxe says, " tliis King John," as though he had orisinallv written this matter for the preceding reign.
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Page 'My, line 22.] — Foxe says, by mistake, " five " instead of " six " year see p. 3.'J;}.
Page .3.tO, line IT'.] — .\s Koxe's text lias been a little amplified in this paragraph, tlic original passage from Mutius is given. By the way, it may be remar'reil, thut Foxe erroneously calls tiiis author Hermaniius Mutius. — "Anno Domini 1212, fuit lueresis in Alsatia, cpia seducti erant nobiles et vulgu-i. Allirmabant qualibet die licere carnes comedcre, in piscium esii immodico tarn inesse luxum, (juam in rcliquis carnis generibiis. Item male facere, qui eontralicrc matrimonia proliiberent, cum Duus onuiia crearit, et sancta onmia sint cum gratiaium actione accepla a fidelibus. Hi ]H'rtinaciter opinioncm illam suam defendebant, et credebant multi illis, nrc dubitabant blaspliemias dicere in sanctissinniMi dominum I'apam, (j\ii probiberet eccle- siastici.') contraliere, et quibusdam diebus a cil)is corponun human()rum consfi- tutioni idoneis (a/c). Quajjrojjter Pontifex Homanus praicepit ejusmodi homines V medio tollere. Suntque uno die circiter centum ab episcopo Argentinensi combusti. M errare. ' — Iluldeiicus Mutius, German. Chronic. Liber xix. apud I'istorii "Germ. Script." torn. ii. edit, llatisb. p. 809.
Page 3.30, line 24. *^ Nauclerns, anollier I'istorion," &:c.] — An inaccuracy of Foxe's having been discovered and corrected in this paragraph, the original is here cited, where lilyricus for " Mediolanum " reads " Mediolanensibus ;" but Foxe seems to have taken " Mediolanum" for " Mcdioianenses," and made it file nominative to " miserunt." "In parlibus etiam Alsatiac tum ha'resis et error tam nobilium quam plebeiorum inultum increvit, volcntium et asserentium licitum et nequaquam esse peccatum, in Quadragesima? diebus et reiitjuis Sexiis feriis aiini coiiudcre earncs : quic(]uid etiam peccarent homines cum his meiiibris qme sub umbilico fbreiit licite fieri posse, dicentes hsec fieri secutidnm iiaiuram. Unde quotannis liujus erroris et lueresis authorihus Mediolanum eertum censuin miserunt: tandem vero ab Episcoix) Argeiitinensi ac civibuscapti utriusque sexiis et conditionis homines fere octoginta un;v die oinnes igni tradili sunt et combusti." — A'aiic/eri Clironographia, Vuhimen Terliian. Gener. 11. sub anno 1212.— See Uslicr, De Christ. Eccl. Sue. et Statu, lib. x. §§.33, 31.
Page 353, " The prophecy of Hihlegdrd."'] — She was born at Spanl^eim about A.D. 1098, and became abbess of St. Rupert near Biiigen. She attracted tbe notice of pope Eugene III., St. Bernard, and all the chief men of her day, by her prophecies, which were publicly approved and confirmed at the council of Treves. Siie died Sept. 27tli, a.d. 1180. Her visions were printed at Paris 1.313, Colon. 1628. (Cave's Hist. Litt.) M. Paris says that Ilildegard flourished in the days of pope Alexander III., who was pope a.d. 11.59 — 1181. He says that she slept for four days, during which sleep the spirit of prophecy was infused into her, and a supernatural acquaintance with learning. (M. Paris, p. 518, anno 1211.) See more of Ilildegard infra, vol. iii. pp.87, 193.
Page 354, line 7. '^ Johannes de Rupe-scissa."^ — (Cutcliffe) is mentioned several times again in this volume. See Index.
Page 354, line 19. "■ Ilennj 7o/.c«."]— This writer is mentioned by Foxe infra, vol. iii. p. 772.
Page 354, line 10 from the bottom.]— This prophecy of Hildegard's is lepeated entire at vol. iii. p. 87.
1 age 35G, line 23. " Simon Ecclesiasticus," otherwise " Simmt, earl of Mont- fort."] — He was the great grandson of Almaric, a natural son of Robert, king of France, who gave him the town and title of Moiitfort. Tiiis Simon was the first of his family who settled in this realm, having by his marriage with Amicia (sister and co-heir to Robert Fitz-Parnel, late earl of Leicester) ob- tained a title to a moiety of that earldom, with other properties, in the 8ih of king John. Having sided with the barons against king John, he was dis- inherited and banished. In the year 1209 he was made by the ]iope general of tlie papal forces against the Albigeiises, and the lands of Reymund, earl of loulouse, were bestowed on him in recompense of his services. (11 Job.) He was killed at the siege of Toulouse by a stone from a sling, according to
