[18] Fairfax’s Tasso, xviii. 43–5.
[19] William of Tyre.
[20] La Réole, a town in Gascony.
[21] Boiled leather, “cuir boulu.”
[22] Pavisses were large shields or defences made of plank, &c., which archers and others bore before them, or fixed in the earth, that they might shoot, mine, &c., in partial cover from the shot of the garrison.
[23] Lord Berners’ Froissart, vol. i. cap. 109.
[24] One of these old guns, of remarkable size, made of bars of hammered iron hooped together, is to be seen in Edinburgh Castle, and is called Mons Meg.
[25] See the medal at the head of this chapter.
[26] Bentivoglio, Hist. of Wars in Flanders, translated by Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1698.
[27] Lotichius, Rerum Germanicarum, lib. xxxvii. p. 1.