[2] Bishop Browne ("The Christian Church in these Islands before the Coming of St. Augustine," 1897, pp. 59-62; S.P.C.K.) in a learned note disposes of this, as he does of the veteran claim of St. Peter's, Cornhill, to take rank as the elder sister of St. Paul's.
[3] The list in the south nave transept, compiled with the assistance of Bishops Stubbs and Browne, leaves this period doubtful and uncertain (_vide_ Appendix A).
[4] "Eccles. Hist.," book ii., chap. iii.
[5] The grant is in Dugdale, p. 288; in Domesday it runs "tenet _semper_ Paulus."
[6] Bishop Browne's "Conversion of the Heptarchy," p. 154 (S.P.C.K.).
[7] Dugdale, p. 299 _et seq._, quotes the Exchequer Domesday. Also, Hale's "Domesday of St. Paul's" and Leach's "Southwell" (the Introduction); Freeman's "Cathedral Church of Wells," p. 50 _et seq._; and Newcourt's "Repertorium." Hereford is the only other cathedral in Domesday where canons held in this way. Southwell (now a cathedral, though the prebendaries are gone), Bedford, Twyneham, and Stafford were collegiate churches of a like kind.
[9] "Diary," Sept. 16, 1666. So far as the pillars are concerned I know of no other time when this "casing" could have been done; and the architecture in Hollar's prints, as reproduced in Dugdale, agrees.
[10] Dean Milman says the text was from Ezekiel, i. 5; was it not from Revelation, iv. 6?
[12] St. Faith's parish reaches westward to 62, St. Paul's Churchyard, north side.
[14] Perhaps the residentiaries were increased to eleven.
[15] "Gleanings," chap. i. It is disappointing to find that it was thought necessary to provide in the Statutes against gross immorality, and that a fine of 3s. 4d. was deemed a sufficient punishment for the first offence, to be doubled on repetition.
[16] Were they ever members of the chapter _ex officio_?
[17] If he had to read his share of the Psalter every day for each, his time for affairs of State must have been encroached upon.
[18] So says Dr. Sparrow-Simpson. In the Gallican Church the _stage_ was the time of qualifying for residence. In modern French a _stagiaire_ = a licentiate in law going through his stage.
[19] In former days. The Vicars Choral of other foundations are now called Minor Canons.