{241d} “Ibid.,” p. 365. {241e} “Ibid.,” p. 299. {241f} “Placit de quo Warranto,” p. 404. {241g} “Hundred Rolls,” p. 317. {241h} For the years 1281 to 1301. {241i} Letter from Rev. R. W. Sibthorpe to Dr. Bloxham, “Life of Sibthorpe,” (1880), p. 138. {242} Stukeley, “Itin. Cur.,” p. 29. The pageants of Corpus Christi day are described by Dugdale, and in the “Northumberland Household Book,” 1512. {243a} Acta Regia. Quoted by Oliver, “Religious Houses,” p. 52, note 68. The corruption which was gradually eating its way into the monastic life came, in some cases, to be felt by those who were admitted to their intimacy. The author of a poem contemporary with Chaucer, in the 14th century, says, I was a friere ful many a day, Therefor the soth I wot; But when I saw that their lyvinge Accorded not to their prechynge, Of I cast my friere clothynge, And wyghtly went my way. Quoted, Jusseraud’s “Way-faring Life of 14th Century.” {243b} Cottonian MS. “Cleopatra,” E. {244a} Cowper, “The Task,” 1. 206. {244b} “Quarterly Review,” July, 1891, p. 126. {246} Referring to these portions of screen, Mr. G. E. Jeans, author of “Murray’s Handbook to Lincolnshire,” says “Kirkstead Abbey, most valuable Early English screen, one of the earliest in England” (“Lincs. N. & Q.,” vol. ii., p. 91). Also Dr. Mansel Sympson, in a Paper on “Lincolnshire Rood Screens,” read before the Architectural Society, June, 1890, goes into further detail. He says, “It is composed of 13 bays. Each bay consists of a lancet-headed trefoil, supported by octagonal pillars, with moulded capitals and bases . . . total height 2ft. 9in. Some screen-work exists in Rochester Cathedral of exactly the same character.” And the late Mr. Bloxam gave a drawing of a similar specimen in Thurcaston Church, Leicestershire. That at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, is not quite similar, and is 40 or 50 years later (1260); so that we may be proud of possessing, at Kirkstead, almost the oldest fragment of work, in this particular line, in the country. (“Architect. Soc. Journ.,” 1890, pp. 198, 199). {247} See “Archæological Journal,” vol. xl., p. 296. {249} Vol. i., p. 286, 1886. {250a} Col. Richard Ellison, of Boultham, in a poem, entitled “Kirkstead; or, The Pleasures of Shooting,” printed by Painter, 342 Strand, London, 1837. {250b} The concluding words of Mr. Hartshorne’s Paper quoted above. {251} A photo of the writer in this attitude, in Alpine costume, hat and alpenstock in hand, and with the sweat of his brow still glistening from a mountain climb, has been exhibited at more than one lantern-illustrated lecture. {254} “Archæol. Journ.,” No. 7, Sept., 1845, p. 353; and Saunder’s “Hist. Linc.,” vol. ii., pp. 170, 171. {255} Sir Charles Anderson says “Tennyson’s ‘Northern Farmer,’ excepting his ‘yal’ for ‘ale,’ is a failure.” (“Pocket Guide to Lincoln,” p. 17).