[5] It has, within the last few years, been added to the British Museum.—Ed.
[6] Dame was the lady of the knight; the Damoiselle, the wife of an esquire; Dameisel, or Damoiseau, was a youth of noble extraction, but who had not yet attained to knighthood.—Rocquefort, “Glossaire de la Langue Romane.”
[7] Ritson’s “Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy,” lxxxi.
[8] See an “Essay on English Monastic Libraries,” by that learned and ingenious antiquary, the Rev. Joseph Hunter.
[9] Some of these extraordinary window-catalogues of the monastic library of St. Albans were found in the cloisters and presbytery of that monastery, and are preserved in the “Monasticon Anglicanum.”
[10] Dibdin’s “Bibliographical Decameron,” iii. 245.
HENRY THE SEVENTH.
There was a state of transition in our literature, both classical and vernacular, which deserves our notice in the progress of the genius of the nation.