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My reasons for my account of the battle of Poitiers demand longer explanation than can be given in a footnote. Like most modern writers, I have based my narrative on the Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker as expounded by Sir E.M. Thompson, though I agree with Professor Oman in holding that Baker's "ampla profundaque vallis et mariscus, torrente quodam irriguus," must be the valley of the Miausson.
His Latin poetry is not without a certain barbaric splendour; but it discovers, as might be expected, no skill in the more refined graces of the Augustan age. The verse he quoted to Thomas Warton as his favourite, from the translation of Pope's Messiah, Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes,
'As we were leaving the College, he said, "Here I translated Pope's Messiah. Which do you think is the best line in it? My own favourite is, 'Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes." I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter. I did not tell him, it was not in the Virgilian style. He much regretted that his FIRST tutor was dead; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard.
Upton Noble, a parish 2-1/2 m. S.W. of Witham Friary. The church has a small gable-roofed tower, and preserves in the E. wall of a S. chapel a defaced crucifix within a nimbus. The font is early. Vallis, 1 m. N.W. from Frome a prettily-wooded bottom, through which flows a stream pleasantly margined by a strip of pasture.
There is no village of La Salette, but a commune, which is somewhat appropriately called La Salette-Fallavaux, the latter word being from fallax vallis, or "the lying valley."
As early as 1096, we find Pope Urban II. describing Val Louise, one of the Dauphiny valleys then called Vallis Gyrontana, from the torrent of Gyr, which flows through it as "infested with heresy."
He should have taken courage and gone a half-mile further, to the furze-grown ruins of a great Roman camp, which gives its name to the place, 'Clovelly, Vallum Clausum, or Vallis Clausa, as antiquarians derive it; perhaps, 'the hidden camp, or glen, perhaps something else. Who cares?
Justina's at Padua, the centre of reform in Northern Italy; and thus it was not till 1516 that the new ordinances were finally sanctioned by Leo X. Thus the family of d'Illiers at this time almost monopolized the see of Chartres; members of it holding the bishopric consecutively for fifty years, the deanery for a hundred, the arch-deaconry and the rich abbey of Bona Vallis also for fifty.
The founder of the sanctuary was a hermit, whose contemplative spirit led him to this savage and uninhabited valley, whose name, in the early Christian ages, was Vallis tenebrosa, but in which Nature had fashioned numerous caverns, more or less tempting to an anchorite.
Mary, the fragments of which are still preserved in great veneration at Wedale, in English Wodale, in Latin Vallis- doloris. Wodale is a village in the province of Lodonesia, but now of the jurisdiction of the bishop of St. Andrew's, of Scotland, six miles on the west of that heretofore noble and eminent monastery of Meilros. Exeter.
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