176. ficta pietate: that is, what our author in the Conf. Amantis calls ‘pite feigned,’ i.e. false or misplaced clemency.
176 ff. Knighton says that the queen interceded for them with the prelates (ii. 295). For the intervention of the prelates see Rot. Parl. iii. 241.
178 f. For the terms of their exile see Rot. Parl. iii. 244, Knighton, ii. 295 f.
183. The sense of the preceding negative seems to be extended to this line also.
188 ff. I do not know of any other authority for this expulsion of friars.
200. cantus: apparently genitive in spite of the metre; so ‘ducatus,’ iii. 117, ‘excercitus,’ ‘luxus,’ Vox Clamantis, i. 609, vi. 1224.
215. hirundo: a reference to the name Arundel.
Secunda Pars
There is an interval of nearly ten years between the first and the second part of the Chronicle. Our author proceeds to the events of 1397. He assumes that the king carried out a long-meditated plan of vengeance, cp. ll. 23 ff., but this was of course an after-thought by way of accounting for what happened.
15. A pardon was granted to all three in the Parliament of 1387-88, ‘par estatut’ (see Rot. Parl. iii. 350), and a special charter of pardon was granted to the earl of Arundel at Windsor, April 30, 1394 (Rot. Parl. iii. 351; cp. Ann. Ric. II, p. 211). See below, ll. 259 f., where the charters of pardon are said to have been procured by archbishop Arundel who was then Chancellor. It seems to be implied that the other two had similar charters, but nothing is said of this in the Rolls of Parliament; cp. Eulog. Hist. iii. 374.