[72]. Chroniques, ed. W. Hardy, Rolls Series, vol. for 1422–31, p. 289. Elsewhere (p. 254) he describes him as “moult sage et prudent aux armes au quel se fyoit grandement le duc de Bethfort, regent.”
[73]. She was a second wife, but the name of the first, who bore him a daughter, is not known (Hist. of Castle Combe, p. 271).
[74]. Ibid., p. 276; Paston Letters, i. p. 356.
[75]. Ibid., p. 419.
[76]. William Paston to John Paston: “He wyll dwelle at Caster, and Skrop wyth hym” (Paston Letters, i. p. 296). “The chaumboure sumtyme for Stephen Scrope” is mentioned in the inventory of Fastolf’s effects at Caister made after his death (ibid., i. p. 482).
[77]. See below, p. xliii. The note (Roxburghe Club ed. p. 54) runs, “Notandum est quod Cristina [fuit] domina præclara natu et moribus et manebat in domo religiosarum dominarum apud Passye prope Parys; et ita virtuosa fuit quod ipsa exhibuit plures clericos studentes in vniuersitate Parisiensi, et compilare fecit plures libros virtuosos, utpote librum arborum bellorum, et doctores racione eorum exhibicionis attribuerunt nomen autoris Cristine, sed aliquando nomen autoris clerici studentis imponitur in diuersis libris; et vixit circa annum Christi 1430, sed floruit ab anno Christi 1400.”
[78]. Guiffrey, Inventaires, i. p. 249; cf. Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., iii. p. 193, no. 290.
[79]. In answer to an inquiry M. Omont, keeper of MSS., kindly states that only one of them, franç. 12,438, a poor copy on paper, contains a dedication to the Duke of Berry. It begins “Le Prologue. Louenge à Dieu soit .... et après ensuivant à très noble fleur .... et puis à vous excellant prince, saige, bon et vertueux, Jehan excellant, redoubté filz au roy de France .... duc de Berry,” etc.
[80]. The “Cent Balades d’Amant et de Dame” (Œuvres Poétiques, ed. Roy, iii. p. 209), besides ten others.
[81]. Printed by Roy, i. p. xiv. The MS. is there described and compared with another rather earlier collection (now Bibl. Nat. franç. 835, 606, 836, 605), which the Duke of Berry bought from Christine for 200 crowns. A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Harley MS., with a large miniature of Christine presenting the volume to the queen in her bedchamber, is prefixed to Roy’s vol. iii. (cf. a note by P. Meyer, p. xxii.). A coloured plate of the same miniature is given by Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 1843.