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388 NOTES.Sacred and Lef^endaiy Art.As to those mentioned by Pecock, St. Peterlias his heys, St. Paul commonly a sword, whilst St. Nicholas is oftenfound in company with three very young boys standing in a tub, inallusionto the story of his bringing to life three children AA'ho had beenslain, cut up, and placed in a pickle-tub.54. Dressid and lad, directed and led, or guided.78. Dai of seint Kaferyn, November 25. But just below, he says thatthe pilgrimage to St. Catharine's College took place on the vigil, i. e. onthe evening of Nov. 24. St. Catharine's College was more commonlyknown as St. Catharine's Hospital, and was close to the Tower ofLondon. It was founded by Matilda, wife of King Stephen. See Stow'sSurvey of London, ed. Strype, bk. i. p. 204. It is now, as I am informed,in Regent's Park.94. Gravyseende.'Stephen Gravesend was bishop of London fromA.D. 1319-1338.'—Babington. See Milman's Annals of St. Paul's, p. 70.97. Chaujiceler. The Chancellor in olden times was commonly anarchbishop or bishop. A list of chancellors is given in Haydn's Book ofDates, but it only goes back to the year 1487.103. De Pro/undis, i.e. Ps. cxxx., called Ps. cxxix. in the Vulgate. Inthe Officium Mortuorum in the Sarum Missal occurs the rubric: *Inanniuersariis et trigesimis et in omnibus aliisscquens tractus De Profundis a toto choro altematim,' &c.missis pro defunctis dicitur1 13. Cbeyned, chained; alluding to the practice of fastening books byan iron chain to the reading-desk, that they might not be stolen.VI.HENRY THE MINSTREL.Line iSr. Will^bam Wallace, or, &c. ; William Wallace, ere he was aman capable of bearing arms. The following apt remarks occur in the'English Cyclopedia : The life and exploits of this most popular nationalhero of the Scots have been principally preserved in a legendary form bypoetry and tradition, and are only to a very small extent matter of contemporaryrecord or illustrated by authentic documents. . . .'The history of Wallace down to the year 1297 is entirely legendary,and only to be found in the rhymes of Henr)- the Minstrel ; thoughmany of the facts which Harry relates also still live as popular traditionsin the localities where the scenes of them are laid, whether handed downin that way from the time when they happened, or only derived from hispoem, which long continued to be the chief literary favourite of the Scottishpeasantry. Harry, who, it may be observed, professes to translate froma Latin account written by Wallace's intimate friend and chaplain, John