Footnote 1:
Rom. Sott. ii. 125.
Footnote 2:
“Lectures on the Eastern Church,” 1869, p. 218.
Footnote 3:
Montalembert: _Monks of the West_, Book iv. c. 1.
Footnote 4:
Adams, “Chronicles of Cornish Saints,” in the _Journal of the Royal
Institution of Cornwall_, 1873.
Footnote 5:
_Notes on the History of S. Bega and S. Hild._ (Hartlepool, 1844.) By
D. H. Haigh.
Footnote 6:
_Monks of the West_, 1868, vol. v., pp. 219-21.
Footnote 7:
Probably Seaxwulf, the Mercian bishop.
Footnote 8:
Green, _The Making of England_; _ed._ 1897, ii. p. 111.
Footnote 9:
_Latin Christianity_, 1867, vol. vi., pp. 1 seq.
Footnote 10:
The Rev. E. M. Fitzgerald, who was Vicar of Walsall at the time when
Sister Dora was there, writes: “No Walsall friend of Sister Dora ever
thought that the book exaggerated her virtues or her achievements. We
found fault because it did her injustice in attributing to her some
mean faults of which she was incapable.”
Footnote 11:
Miss Lonsdale says that when her father was dangerously ill Sister
Dora asked leave to go to him, and was refused and sent down into
Devonshire. This has been denied, and I think there has been a
misapprehension somewhere. Mr. Welsh says: “The story about Sister
Dora not being allowed to visit her father on his death-bed is very
sensational, but—is fiction.”
Footnote 12:
_Sister Dora: a Review_, p. 14 (Walsall, 1880).
Footnote 13:
H. M. J., in a letter to the Guardian, May 12th, 1880.
Footnote 14:
A Yorkshire expression for heavy work.
Footnote 15:
This has been denied. Her old and devoted servant said: “Do you think
I would let my darling die alone?” But it appears to me that Sister
Dora’s desire was one to be expected in such a spiritual nature; and
in the statement above given it is not said that she was actually left
in solitude.
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