FOOTNOTES
1. Rom. Sott. ii. 125.
2. “Lectures on the Eastern Church,” 1869, p. 218.
3. Montalembert: Monks of the West, Book iv. c. 1.
4. Adams, “Chronicles of Cornish Saints,” in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1873.
5. Notes on the History of S. Bega and S. Hild. (Hartlepool, 1844.) By D. H. Haigh.
6. Monks of the West, 1868, vol. v., pp. 219-21.
7. Probably Seaxwulf, the Mercian bishop.
8. Green, The Making of England; ed. 1897, ii. p. 111.
9. Latin Christianity, 1867, vol. vi., pp. 1 seq.
10. The Rev. E. M. Fitzgerald, who was Vicar of Walsall at the time when Sister Dora was there, writes: “No Walsall friend of Sister Dora ever thought that the book exaggerated her virtues or her achievements. We found fault because it did her injustice in attributing to her some mean faults of which she was incapable.”
11. Miss Lonsdale says that when her father was dangerously ill Sister Dora asked leave to go to him, and was refused and sent down into Devonshire. This has been denied, and I think there has been a misapprehension somewhere. Mr. Welsh says: “The story about Sister Dora not being allowed to visit her father on his death-bed is very sensational, but—is fiction.”
12. Sister Dora: a Review, p. 14 (Walsall, 1880).
13. H. M. J., in a letter to the Guardian, May 12th, 1880.
14. A Yorkshire expression for heavy work.
15. This has been denied. Her old and devoted servant said: “Do you think I would let my darling die alone?” But it appears to me that Sister Dora’s desire was one to be expected in such a spiritual nature; and in the statement above given it is not said that she was actually left in solitude.