[395] “Oyez!” or perhaps “Ho!”
[396] From Mr. Wright’s “Domestic Manners and Customs of the Middle Ages.”
[397] “Ancient Cannon in Europe,” by Lieut. Brackenbury.
[398] See also Viollet le Duc’s “Dictionary of Architecture.”
[399] The British Museum does not possess this fine work, but a copy of it is accessible to the public in the Library of the South Kensington Museum.
[400] Afterwards cardinal.
[401] Dun Cow.
[402] “He is so hung round,” says Truewit, in Ben Jonson’s Epicœne, “with pikes, halberds, petronels, calivers, and muskets, that he looks like a justice of peace’s hall.” Clement Sysley, of Eastbury House, near Barking, bequeathed in his will the “gonnes, pikes, cross-bows, and other weapons, to Thomas Sysley, to go with the house, and remain as standards for ever in Eastbury Hall.”
[403] A sketch illustrating their construction may be found in Witsen’s “Sheeps Bouw.” Appendix, Plate 10.
[404] “History of Commerce.”