26
       A proclamation had just been put forth by the barons, that
       all foreigners should be expelled and lose their property;
       and much violence ensued throughout England, the victims
       being often detected by their pronunciation, as in our
       story.

27
       How good to those who seek Thou art,
       But what to those who find! 
       —­Saint Bernard.

28
       It was one of them who first stabbed Edward the First, when
       his queen saved him by sucking the poison from the wound,
       according to a Spanish historian.

29
       Sixty-six pounds, 13 shillings, four pence; a large sum in
       those days.

30
       It was afterwards ascertained that on the very night, the
       father, Roger, dreamt that he saw his son in a gloomy cell,
       a slave condemned to apparently hopeless toil or death, and
       addressed him as in the text.

31
       Acre was stormed by the Moslems, ad 1291, and the Holy Land
       was lost with it.

32
       How unlike the ceremonial of Hubert’s knighthood!  But the
       approach of a battle justified the omission of the usual
       rites in the opinion of the many.

33
       Witness the case of the Scotch judge—­pursued under divers
       forms by the supposed apparition of a man he had hanged,
       until he died of fright—­as recorded by Sir Walter Scott in
       Demonology and Witchcraft.

34
       Whom they had pelted with mud as she passed under London
       Bridge, calling her a witch.  Life of Simon de Montfort, page
       126.

35
       Old English for hence.

36
       Parish priests were frequently styled Sir in those days. 
       Father meant a monk or regular, as opposed to the secular,
       clergy.

37
       His descent from noble families of either race—­Michelham,
       the house of Ella, through his father; Walderne, of ancient
       Norman blood, through his mother, rendered him acceptable to
       both parties.