FOOTNOTES:

[93] Guisarmes,—a kind of (offensive) long-handled and long-headed weapon; or, (as the Spanish visarma) a staff that had within it two long pikes, which, with a shoot or thrust forward, come forth.——Cotgrave.

[94] Argentan. I should suppose it must be Alençon.

[95] St Pierre sur Dive,—a market-town near Trouard in Normandy.

[96] Vaucelles,—a village in Normandy near Bayeux.

[97] The Dive separates the bishopricks of Lisieux and Bayeux, and loses itself in the Channel.

[98] Estreham,—at the mouth of the Orne, four leagues from Caen.