“Muids” (modii) were of a different sort, according to places; those “of the Paris measurement” contained 270 of our litres and were therefore quite goodly casks.
[497] Berners’ Froissart, ed. Ker, I, p. 393.
[498] On the extraordinary voyage of the “basileus and autocrator” and his stay of four years away from his besieged capital, see Schlumberger, “Un Empereur de Byzance à Paris et à Londres,” “Revue des Deux Mondes,” Dec. 15, 1915.
[499] Wilkins, “Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ,” vol. iii, 1737, p. 847. On the discovery in 1888 of bones supposed to be those of the archbishop, see Canon A. J. Mason’s “What became of the Bones of St. Thomas? A contribution to his fifteenth Jubilee,” London, 1920.
[500] 2 Ed. VI, “Miscellaneous Writings of Thomas Cranmer,” Parker Society, Cambridge, 1846, p. 147.
[501] “Piers Plowman,” ed. Skeat, Text C, pass. 1, l. 51.
[502] Printed in “The Academy,” Nov. 17, 1883, p. 331.
[503] “The Examination of Master William Thorpe,” 1407, Arber’s “Engl. Garner,” vi, 84. Cf. “Anecdotes . . . tirées . . . d’Etienne de Bourbon, XIIIe siècle,” ed. Lecoy de la Marche, “Sextus titulus, De Peregrinatione.”
[504] See Appendix XVII, p. [446]. On Reynard, the date, composition and sources of this work, see Léon Foulet, “Le Roman de Renard,” Paris, 1914.
[505] “A Dialoge or communication of two persons, deuysyd and set forthe in the laten tonge, by the noble and famose clarke, Desiderius Erasmus, intituled ye pylgremage of pure deuotyon. Newly translatyd into Englishe.” London (1540?), 16º.