attle of Fornham,' a fact, though a forgotten one. Edmund,
Landlord of the Eastern Counties: A very singular kind of
'landlord.' How he came to be 'sainted.' Seen and felt to have
done verily a man's part in this life pilgrimage of his. How
they took up the slain body of their Edmund, and reverently
embalmed it. Pious munificence, ever growing by new pious gifts.
Certain Times do crystallise themselves in a magnificent manner;
others in a rather shabby one.

Chap. IV. _Abbot Hugo_

All things have two faces, a light one and dark: The Ideal has
to grow in the Real, and to seek its bed and board there, often
in a very sorry manner. Abbot Hugo, grown old and feeble. Jew
debts and Jew creditors. How approximate justice strives to
accomplish itself. In the old monastic Books almost no Mention
whatever of 'personal religion.' A poor Lord Abbot, all stuck-
over with horse-leeches: A 'royal commission of inquiry,' to no
purpose. A monk's first duty, obedience. Magister Samson,
Teacher of the Novices. The Abbot's providential death.

Chap. V. _Twelfth Century_

Inspectors of Custodiars; the King not in any breathless haste
to appoint a new Abbot. Dim and very strange looks that monk-
life to us. Our venerable ancient spinning grandmothers,
shrieking, and rushing out with their distaffs. Lakenheath eels
too slippery to be caught. How much is alive in England, in that
Twelfth Century; how much, not yet come into life. Feudal
Aristocracy; Willelmus conquaestor: Not a steeple-chimney yet
got on end from sea to sea.

Chap. VI. _Monk Samson_

Monk-Life and Monk-Religion: A great heaven-high
Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating all human
Duties. Our modern Arkwright Joe-Manton ages: All human dues
and reciprocities, changed into one great due of 'cash-payment'
The old monks but a limited class of creatures, with a somewhat
dull life of it. One Monk of a taciturn nature distinguishes
himself among those babling ones. A Son of poor Norfolk parents.
Little Samson's awful dream: His poor Mother dedicates him to
St. Edmund. He grows to be a learned man, of devout grave
nature. Sent to Rome on business; and returns _too_ successful:
Method of traveling thither in those days. His tribulations at
home: Strange conditions under which Wisdom has sometimes to
struggle with folly.

Chap. VII. _The Canvassing_

A new Abbot to be elected. Even gossip, seven centuries off, has