entered our land, . . . followed a purely English policy.'

_The three children_; William I and II, and Henry I.

_The transept_; of Canterbury Cathedral, after Becket's death named the
'Martyrdom.'

_Nor again_; See the _Early Plantagenets_, by Bishop Stubbs: one of the
very few masterpieces among the shoal of little books on great subjects
in which a declining literature is fertile.

_Britons on each side sea_; Armorica and Cornwall, Wales and Strathclyde,
all share in the great Arthurian legend.

_Justinian_; 'Edward,' says Dr. Stubbs, 'is the great lawgiver, the great
politician, the great organiser of the mediaeval English polity:' (_Early
Plantagenets_).

_Keep thy Faith_; 'Pactum serva' may be still seen inscribed on the huge
stone coffin of Edward I.

_The keels of Guienne . . . Adria's dyes_; The ships of Gascony, of the
Hanse Towns, of Genoa, of Venice, are enumerated amongst those which now
traded with England.

_Malvasian nectar_; 'Malvoisie,' the sweet wine of the Southern Morea,
gained its name from Monemvasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, its port of
shipment.

_Sendal_; A thin rich silk. _Samite_; A very rich stuff, sometimes