Possible Clues:

• Cruciform characters for a departed priest
• No name attached to prize: I print marks
• Footnote symbols indicating some worthwhile books for looking up?
• 'Paving with fire the sky and the - floods' (Shelley)
• ÷ symbols
• Daggers when honour is given to deceiver, not half!
• Daggers kept by old boy - Samuel's teacher, actually
• Some probe literature for old manuscript marks
• Dagger signs for footnotes
• Daggers drawn (see footnotes)