His great work,
_Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland_, was used by
Shakespeare as the source of several plays. He writes of Joan: "Of
favor [appearance] was she counted likesome; of person stronglie made,
and manlie; of courage, great, hardie, and stout withall."
94 (footnote) SATANIC: This epithet was applied to the work of some of
his contemporaries by Southey in the preface to his _Vision of
Judgement_, 1821. It has been generally assumed that Byron and
Shelley are meant. See Introduction to Byron's _Vision of Judgment_
in the new Murray edition of Byron, Vol. IV.
96 (footnote) BURGOO: a thick oatmeal gruel or porridge used by seamen.
According to the _New English Dictionary_ the derivation is
unknown; but in the _Athenaeum_, Oct. 6, 1888, quoted by Hart, the
word is explained as a corruption of Arabic _burghul_.
101 30 ENGLISH PRINCE, REGENT OF FRANCE: John, Duke of Bedford, uncle
of Henry VI. "In genius for war as in political capacity," says J. R.
Green, "John was hardly inferior to Henry [the Fifth, his brother]
himself" (_A History of the English People_, Book IV, Chap. VI).
101 31 MY LORD OF WINCHESTER: Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester,
half-brother of Henry IV. He was the most prominent English prelate of
his time and was the only Englishman in the Court that condemned Joan.
As to the story of his death, to which De Quincey alludes, see
Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI, Act III, sc.
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