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Chapter III: 25, 12. Jeremiah xxiii. 40

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25, 21. Cf. 1 Corinthians xii. 3.

26, 23. _Verba Mea._ The 5th Psalm in the Vulgate begins with these words.

31, 9. _Waltham._ The interview with Henry II. took place at Bishop's Waltham, in Hampshire, on the 21st February, 1182.

31, 15. _Geoffrey the Chancellor._ Geoffrey was a natural son of Henry II.--it is generally stated as by Fair Rosamond, though this is now discredited by the facts adduced in the _Dict. Nat. Biog._ He was successively Bishop of Lincoln (1173), Chancellor (1182), Archbishop of York (1191), and after a violent quarrel with King John, fled the country in 1207, dying in Normandy in 1212.

32, 5. Matthew xix. 30; Mark x. 31.

34, 23. _By the very eyes of God_: "per veros oculos Dei!" This was a favourite oath of Henry II. In a contemporary metrical life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the King is more than once made to exclaim "Par les oilz Dieu" (Rokewode, p. 115). William II. used to swear by "the holy Face of Lucca"; John by "the teeth of God" (Ramsay, _Angevin Empire_ (1903), p. 414).

35, 7. _Miserere mei Deus._ Psalm li.

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The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot SamsonChapter III: 25, 12. Jeremiah xxiii. 40

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