La ot meint riche guarnement
Brodé sur sendaus e samis.[116]
And Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, leading the first squadron, hoisted his banner made of yellow cendal blazoned with a lion rampant purpre.[117]
Baner out de un cendal safrin,
O un lioun rampant purprin.
Most, if not all the other flags were made of the same cendal silk.
[116] Roll of Caerlaverock, ed. Wright, p. 1.
[117] Ibid. p. 2.
When the stalworth knight of Southampton wished to keep himself unknown at a tournament, we thus read of him—
Sir Bevis disguised all his weed