715. nexte schire, may mean 'next (succeeding) assizes'; for schire
may be used in the sense of A. S. scīr-gemōt; and the Lat. comitatus meant curia as well as 'county.' See, for example, the last quotation in the note to l. 871.
718. 'Put down his hood,' lowered his hood, so as to show his face.
724. leet take Gamelyn, caused (men) to take Gamelyn; we now say 'caused Gamelyn to be taken,' changing the verb from active to passive. The active use of the verb is universal in such phrases in Middle English, as is still common in German. 'Er liess Gamelyn nehmen.' Cf. l. 733.
727. Ote is not a common name; we find mention of 'Sir Otes de Lile' in Libius Disconius, l. 1103, in the Percy Folio MS., ii. 455. Otes is equivalent to 'Otho'; see Le Livere de Reis de Angletere, ed. Glover, p. 268, l. 6; and p. 272. The form Otoun or Oton is equivalent to Lat. acc. Othonem.
732. wonder sory, wonderfully sorry. nothing light, in no degree light-hearted.
738. 'May evil befall such another brother (as thou art)'; cf. l. 485.
744. 'I offer to bail him,' lit. I bid for him for bail; mainprise being a sb., and him a dative case. Mr. Jephson says—'I demand that he be granted to me on mainprise, or bail, till the assize for general gaol-delivery.'
752. 'Cause (men) to deliver him at once, and to hand him over to me.'
761. sitte means 'may sit'; cf. l. 749.