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f the Isle of Wight. (72) i.e. Dungeness; where they collected all the ships stationed in the great bay formed by the ports of Romney, Hithe, and Folkstone. (73) i.e. Godwin and his son Harold. (74) i.e. the tide of the river. (75) Godwin's earldom consisted of Wessex, Sussex, and Kent: Sweyn's of Oxford, Gloucester, Hereford, Somerset, and Berkshire: and Harold's of Essex, East-Anglia, Huntingdon, and Cambridgeshire. (76) The church, dedicated to St. Olave, was given by Alan Earl of Richmond, about thirty-three years afterwards, to the first abbot of St. Mary's in York, to assist him in the construction of the new abbey. It appears from a MS. quoted by Leland, that Bootham-bar was formerly called "Galman-hithe", not Galmanlith, as printed by Tanner and others. (77) Called St. Ethelbert's minster; because the relics of the holy King Ethelbert were there deposited and preserved. (78) The place where this army was assembled, though said to be very nigh to Hereford, was only so with reference to the great distance from which some part of the forces came; as they were gathered from all England. They met, I conjecture, on the memorable spot called "Harold's Cross", near Cheltenham, and thence proceeded, as here stated, to Gloucester. (79) This was no uncommon thing among the Saxon clergy, bishops and all. The tone of elevated diction in which the writer describes the military enterprise of Leofgar and his companions, testifies his admiration. (80) See more concerning him in Florence of Worcester. His lady, Godiva, is better known at Coventry. See her story at large in Bromton and Matthew of Westminster. (81) He died at his villa at Bromleage (Bromley in Staffordshire).--Flor. (82) He built a new church from the foundation, on a larger plan. The monastery existed from the earliest times. (83) Florence of Worcester says, that he went through Hungary to Jerusalem. (84) This must not be confounded with a spire-steeple. The expression was used to denote a tower, long before spires were invented. (85) Lye interprets it erroneously the "festival" of St. Martin.--"ad S. Martini festum:" whereas the expression relates to the place, not to the time of his death, which is mentioned immediately afterwards. (86) This threnodia on the death of Edwa
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