[Footnote E:  Doubtless the circle was at Conishead Priory, on the Cartmell Sands; or that in the vale of Swinside, on the north-east side of Black Combe; more probably the former.  The whole district is rich in Druidical remains, but Wordsworth would not refer to the Keswick circle, or to Long Meg and her Daughters in this connection; and the proximity of the temple on the Cartmell Shore to the Furness Abbey ruins, and the ease with which it could be visited on holidays by the boys from Hawkshead school, make it almost certain that he refers to it.—­Ed.]

[Footnote F:  Furness Abbey, founded by Stephen in 1127, in the glen of the deadly Nightshade—­Bekansghyll—­so called from the luxuriant abundance of the plant, and dedicated to St. Mary. (Compare West’s ’Antiquities of Furness’.)—­Ed.]

[Footnote G:  What was the belfry is now a mass of detached ruins.—­Ed.]

[Footnote H:  Doubtless the Cartmell Sands beyond Ulverston, at the estuary of the Leven.—­Ed.]

[Footnote I:  At Bowness.—­Ed.]

[Footnote K:  The White Lion Inn at Bowness.—­Ed.]

[Footnote L:  Compare the reference to the “rude piece of self-taught art,” at the Swan Inn, in the first canto of ‘The Waggoner’, p. 81.  William Hutchinson, in his ‘Excursion to the Lakes in 1773 and 1774’ (second edition, 1776, p. 185), mentions “the White Lion Inn at Bownas.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote M:  Dr. Cradock told me that William Hutchinson—­referred to in the previous note—­describes “Bownas church and its cottages,” as seen from the lake, arising “’above the trees’.”  Wordsworth, reversing the view, sees “gleams of water through the trees and ’over the tree tops’”—­another instance of minutely exact description.—­Ed.]

[Footnote N:  Robert Greenwood, afterwards Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.—­Ed.]

[Footnote O:  Compare ‘Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey’, vol. ii. p. 51.—­Ed.]

[Footnote P:  Wetherlam, or Coniston Old Man, or both.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Q: 

  “The moon, as it hung over the southernmost shore of Esthwaite, with
  Gunner’s How, as seen from Hawkshead rising up boldly to the
  spectator’s left hand, would be thus described.”

(H.  D. Rawnsley.)—­Ed.]

[Footnote R:  Esthwaite.  Compare ‘Peter Bell’ (vol. ii. p. 13): 

  ’Where deep and low the hamlets lie
  Beneath their little patch of sky
  And little lot of stars.’

Ed.]

[Footnote S:  See in the Appendix to this volume, Note II, p. 388.—­Ed.]

[Footnote T:  See ‘Paradise Lost’, ix. l. 249.—­Ed.]

[Footnote U:  The daily work in Hawkshead School began—­by Archbishop Sandys’ ordinance—­at 6 A.M. in summer, and 7 A.M. in winter.—­Ed.]

[Footnote V:  Esthwaite.—­Ed.]

[Footnote W:  The Rev. John Fleming, of Rayrigg, Windermere, or, possibly, the Rev. Charles Farish, author of ’The Minstrels of Winandermere’ and ‘Black Agnes’.  Mr. Carter, who edited ‘The Prelude’ in 1850, says it was the former, but this is not absolutely certain.—­Ed.]