[216] Homes of Other Days, pp. 45-47. The various instrumentalists of the Anglo-Saxon period are called by the author _hearpere_, the harper; _bymere_, the trumpeter; _pipere_, the piper or flute-player; _fithelere_, the fiddler; and _horn-blawere_, the horn-blower. [217] Legend of St. Juliana, Homes of Other Days, p. 50. [218] Discipline of Drink, p. 135. [219] Ibid., p. 135. [220] Ibid., p. 136. [221] Fosbrooke’s British Monachism, vol. i. pp. 16, 17. [222] Ibid. [223] Fosbrooke’s British Monachism, vol. i. p. 24. [224] Homes of Other Days, p. 25. [225] Homes of Other Days, p. 119. [226] The reader must remember that noon was the dinner-hour. [227] Justiciar was equivalent to our Lord Chief-Justice. [228] Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, by T. E. Tomlins and J. E. Rokewode. Whittaker. [229] Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, p. 27. [230] Homes of Other Days, p. 94. [231] Homes of Other Days, p. 288. [232] Fosbrooke, vol. ii. p. 124. [233] Discipline of Drink, p. 80. [234] Fosbrooke, vol. ii. p. 124. [235] Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, pp. 30, 31. [236] Ibid., p. 35. [237] Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, p. 44; also Fosbrooke, vol. i. p. 83. [238] Beer and wine were both made by the monks. In the time of William Rufus there were four brewers, and five servants in the vineyard at Kresham monastery (Fosbrooke, vol. ii. p. 102). A most amusing record for posterity, by the by, of the customs of our day will be the advertisements which appear from time to time in our English papers, of the right of certain monasteries to the sole manufacture of well-known liqueurs—Gin and Gospel! [239] A Book about the Clergy, by J. C. Jeaffreson, vol. i. p. 354. Hurst & Blackett. [240] Discipline of Drink, p. 113. [241] It is but right to say that decrees were from time to time promulgated by the synods and bishops against the practice of holding “ales” in churches, but they seem to have had little effect. [242] Jeaffreson’s Book about the Clergy, vol. i. p. 356. [243] Homes of Other Days, p. 368. [244] Homes of Other Days, p. 427. [245] Ibid., p. 445. [246] Homes of Other Days, p. 346. [247] Ibid., p. 397. [248] Discipline of Drink, p. 175; see also p. 176 and elsewhere. Also, British Monachism, vol. i. p. 66. For some time after the Reformation some of the poorer English clergy kept taverns. ‘Miscellany Accounts of the Diocese of Carlisle’ (1703-7) by William Nicholson, late Bishop of Carlisle, ed. by R. S. Ferguson. (“Contemporary,” May 1878.) [249] King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. sc. 4. [250] Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, p. 25. [251] British Monachism, vol. ii. p. 122. [252] Homes of Other Days, p. 181; MS. Sloane Museum, No. 2435. [253] British Monachism, vol. ii. p. 167. [254] British Monachism, vol. i. p. 121. [255] Hallam’s Constitutional History of England, vol. i. p. 71. Murray. [256] British Monachism, vol. i. pp. 138-140.