"The Massacre of the Jews at York": The "Disappeared" Half of the Poem

To reiterate my previous posts: 1) "The Massacre of the Jews at York," first published in Celia and Marion Moss' Early Efforts: A Volume of Poems, By the Misses Moss, of the Hebrew Nation, Ages 18 and 16 (London: Whittaker & Co., 1839), was anthologized by Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1917).  This is the only twentieth-century reprint of the poem I have been able to find, and the only one available online.  2) However, it's not the whole poem.  Friedlander ends the poem on the martyrs' triumphant choice of  death, then silently censors the second half, which (although it celebrates the martyrs' heroism) represents the actual deaths in a far more harrowing light. 

The first half of the poem is here.  The copytext for what follows is the second edition, which appeared the same year as the first.  All of the numbered footnotes below (all but one of which correspond to the anthologized half) are in the original text; editorial comments are marked with asterisks.  A couple of points have been clarified with links in-text.  I have preserved Moss' sometimes idiosyncratic italics, punctuation, and capitalization.   Either Moss or a typesetter repeatedly changed Henry Hart Milman's punctuation, and those changes are documented in my notes.  Triplet brackets are marked with an |.