_a_ 14. _Cherdhol._ Hearne's text of Alfred of Beverley has _Cherole_; Henry of Huntingdon (about 1150), who gives the same four marvels in his _Historia Anglorum_, has _Chederhole_; and on this evidence the place has been identified with Cheddar in Somerset, where there are famous caves. _a_ 22. _an egle hys nest_: cp. _b_ 23 _a child hys brouch_. This construction has two origins: (1) It is a periphrasis for the genitive, especially in the case of masculine and neuter proper names which had no regular genitive in English; (2) It is an error arising from false manuscript division of the genitive suffix _-es_, _-is_, from its stem. _a_ 36. <_þat_> here and in l. 52 is inserted on the evidence of the other MSS. Syntactically its omission is defensible, for the suppressed relative is a common source of difficulty in Middle English; see the notes to V 4-6, 278-9; X 146; XIV _c_ 54; XVII 66. _a_ 50. _Wynburney._ Wimborne in Dorset. Here St. Cuthburga founded a nunnery, which is mentioned in one of Aldhelm's letters as early as A.D. 705. The information that it is 'not far from Bath', which is hardly accurate, was added by Higden to the account of the marvel he found in the _Topographia Hibernica_ of Giraldus Cambrensis (vol. v, p. 86 of the Rolls Series edition of his works). _a_ 54-64. Higden took this passage from Giraldus, _Itinerarium Cambriae_, Bk. ii, c. 11 (vol. vi, p. 139 of the Rolls edition). _a_ 60-1. _be at here aboue_, 'be over them', 'have the upper hand'. _a_ 63. _Pimbilmere_: the English name for Lake Bala. _b_ 6-7. _þe Flemmynges._ The first settlement of Flemings in Pembrokeshire took place early in the twelfth century, and in 1154, Henry II, embarrassed alike by the turbulence of the Welsh, and of the new host of Flemish mercenaries who had come in under Stephen, encouraged a further settlement. They formed a colony still distinguishable from the surrounding Welsh population. _b_ 11-12. The threefold division of the English according to their Continental origin dates back to Bede's _Ecclesiastical History_. But the areas settled by Bede's three tribes do not correspond to Southern, Northern, and Midland. The Jutes occupied Kent, whence the South-Eastern dialect; the Saxons occupied the rest of the South, whence the South-Western dialect; and the Angles settled in the Midlands and the North; so that the Midland and Northern dialects are both Anglian, and derive from the same Continental tribe or tribal group. _b_ 26. _þe furste moreyn_: the Black Death of 1349. There were fresh outbreaks of plague in 1362, 1369, 1376. _b_ 26-42. The bracketed passage is an addition by Trevisa himself, and is of primary importance for the history of English and of English education. See the valuable article by W. H. Stevenson in _An English Miscellany Presented to Dr. Furnivall_, pp. 421 ff.