[386] H. Huntingdon, p. 381. Order. Vit. 854, &c.
[387] Stephan. Descrip. Lond. p. 7.
[388] Malmsbury, p. 121.
[389] Vinesauf, p. 338.
[390] Hoveden, p. 673. This principle of chivalric pride did not escape the good-humoured ridicule of Cervantes. “As for myself,” answered the bruised Don Quixote, after his battle with the Yanguesian carriers, “I must own I cannot set a term to the days of our recovery; but it is I who am the fatal cause of all this mischief; for I ought not to have drawn my sword upon a company of fellows, upon whom the honor of knighthood was never conferred; and I do not doubt, but that the Lord of Hosts suffered this punishment to befall me for thus transgressing the laws of chivalry. Therefore, friend Sancho, observe what I am going to tell thee, for it is a thing that highly concerns the welfare of us both: it is, that, for the future, whenever thou perceivest us to be any ways abused by such inferior fellows, thou art not to expect I should offer to draw my sword against them, for I will not do it in the least; no, do thou then draw, and chastise them as thou thinkest fit; but if any knights come to take their parts, then will I be sure to step between thee and danger, and assault them with the utmost vigour and intrepidity.” Don Quixote, part i. book 3. c. 1.
[391] Hoveden, p. 687.
[392] William of Newbridge, lib. v. c. 4.
[393] M. of Westminster, p. 300.
[394] Walsingham, p. 13.
[395] Matthew of Westminster, p. 402. Hemingford, p. 592.