MDDM Ch. 60

585.1 Mountains of Wales ... - What's the setting of this first paragraph?

586.15 "Quit-Rent" - rent paid by freeholder or copyholder in lieu of
service (cf. 587.16 "Quitrent" - why the different capitalisation and
punctuation of the exact same term, both within Capt. Shelby's dialogue?)

587.20 Chap-books - small pamphlets of tales, ballads, tracts etc hawked by
chapmen (i.e. peddlars)

587.31 the Lambton Worm

http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/lambton.html

http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/Chester-le-StreetandWashington.htm#THE%2
0LEGEND%20OF%20THE%20LAMBTON%20WORM

588.12 a Blend of cur'd Vegetation that he will describe only as "Chinese
Tobacco" - Indeed!

590.4 Trebuchet - a type of large catapult

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/gctrebs.html

590.26 Latimers, Wyvils, or Mowbrays ?

591.8 Transylvania ... one of the very last Crusades ... Cardinal Cæsarini
... Truce of Szeged ... the battle of Varna ... haunted castles, mysterious
flocks of Bats - (1443-1444)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03546a.htm

http://www.bulgaria.com/varna/

Cf. Vlad the Impaler, or Prince Dracula:

In 1444 Hungary went to war with Turkey and demanded that Vlad join the
crusade. As a member of the Order of the Dragon, Vlad was sworn to obey this
summons. But he didn't want to anger the Turks, so he sent his eldest son,
Mircea, in his place. The Christian army was demolished at the Battle of
Varna [...]

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html

591.15 helped prepare the way for the Turks who were to capture
Constantinople a few years later

http://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/occupation/constantinople.html

591.22 "*Bocsánat,* ... " - Hungarian = "I'm sorry, ... "

593.4 riparian mist - riparian adj. of or on a riverbank

593.23 Oliphant - trumpet made of ivory

http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/pages/oliphant_gnrl.html

593.35 Vambraces - vambrace n. defensive armour for forearm

594.16 nine generations ... Henry Lambton

http://www.ancestryuk.com/LambertonAncestry.htm

595.9 Stuekeleyesque - after Dr. William Stukeley (1687-1765)

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStukeley.html

595.14 Serpent-Mound ... at Avebury ... across Ohio

http://www.sacredsites.com/2nd56/133.html

http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/serpent/

http://online.elcamino.cc.ca.us/hist1A/great.htm

http://www.greatserpentmound.org/

http://www.archaeology.org/9611/newsbriefs/serpentmound.html

http://www.herper.com/Earthworkbiblio.html

595.27 "There, Tom,-- you've ripp'd me Bodice again!" - Tom Hynes? (and
Catherine?)

595.33 "there is a passage in Pliny to that effect" - Is there?

596.4 *Scotismus* - deriving from the philosophical ideas of John Duns
Scotus (c. 1265/6-1308)

http://www.radicalacademy.com/philscotus.htm

The influence of science increased in late scholasticism. The fronts between
the two different directions, that one of Thomas Aquinas into the Thomism
and that one of Duns Scotus into the Scotismus, hardened. The Thomistic
teaching was explained for the official teaching of the church and Thomas
was raised posthumously to the church scholar in 1567.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Gueinzius/E/Kulthist.html

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