[12] See the whole history of the early church of Glastonbury in the first chapter of Professor Willis' Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey. [13] See Willis' Architectural History of Canterbury, p. 20; ditto Winchester, p. 34. [14] It is not said in so many words that the church of Dunstan was of stone, but it is plain that it was so, both because the "lignea basilica" or wooden church is distinguished from it, and because Osbern the biographer of Dunstan (Anglia Sacra, ii. 100) speaks of him as laying the foundations, which could hardly be said of a wooden church. [15] See the account of the Canons of Waltham in the book De Inventione, and those of Rheims in Richer, iii. 24. [16] I have discussed this in full in my History of the Norman Conquest, ii. 571, Ed. 2. [17] When a Bishop is to be elected by the Chapter, two quite distinct documents are sent; there is first the _congé d'élire_, which recognizes the undoubted right of the Chapter to elect and gives them full leave to elect, only with a little good advice as to the sort of person to be chosen. With this, as a kind of after-thought, comes the _letter missive_ or _letter recommendatory_, recommending a particular person for election. [18] The names of the early Bishops, of whom but little is recorded, will be found in the Canon of Wells, Anglia Sacra, i. 556, and Godwin's Catalogue of English Bishops, 290. [19] He was "natione Saxo," says his successor Gisa in the Historiola de Primordiis Episcopatûs Somersetensis. See Norman Conquest, ii. 583. [20] See Godwin, p. 291. [21] Anglia Sacra, i. 559. [22] See Historiola, 15-18; Mr. J. R. Green in the Transactions of the Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society, 1863-4, p. 148; and Norman Conquest, ii. 674. [23] For examples see Norman Conquest, ii. 549. [24] See the writ, the only writ of Harold's which is preserved, in Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus, iv. 305. [25] After mentioning Harold's promise, Gisa (Historiola, p. 18) adds, "præoccupante autem illum judicio divinæ ultionis," and goes on to speak of Harold's two battles and his death. [26] Historiola, p. 19, "publice vivere et inhoneste mendicare necessariorum inopia antea coegerat." [27] For the story of Hermann, see Norman Conquest, ii. 401. [28] On these places see Historiola, pp. 18, 19. But it is as well to say that the well-known charter of Eadward to Gisa, printed in Cod. Dipl. iv. 162, is undoubtedly spurious, though it is useful as giving the names of places in the neighbourhood, in older, though not always their oldest, forms. [29] The rule of Chrodegang will be found at length in D'Achery's Spicilegium, i. 565; and see Norman Conquest, ii. 84. [30] This was about 969. Adalbero's changes are described at length by Richer, iii. 24, in Pertz's smaller collection. [31] See Norman Conquest, ii. 84.