[1] The dog-tooth being in the form of a four-leaved flower with a projecting centre, has caused some authorities to think it derived from the dog-tooth violet.—(E. S.)

[2] The Regale of France, the glory of the Shrine, was long worn by Henry himself in the ring which after the manner of those times encircled his enormous thumb. It last appears in history among the “diamonds” of the golden collar of his daughter, Queen Mary.

[3] See page 4.

[4] See p. 120.

[5] Canterbury, Rochester, Winchester, Worcester, Gloucester.

[6] Similar stalls, or carrels, existed at Durham.

[7] The cloister, of which the inner walls only remain, itself extended beyond this passage eastward.

[8] A triforium in purely Perpendicular buildings is rare.

[9] See pp. 99, 101.