[635] See ‘Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer,’ p. 34, where the reference is to Mr. Hall’s citing the “præmissa scutagia” of his MS. as “promissa scutagia” (pp. clxxii., clxxvii., etc.), and arguing therefrom. See also Ibid. p. 29.
[636] “There is a treatise carryed about the office of the earle marshall in the tyme of King Henry the Second, and another of the tyme of Thomas of Brotherton” (Hearne’s ‘Discourses,’ II. 95).
[637] The Society of Antiquaries possesses an early English version of the ‘Modus’ to which is prefixed a table of chapters both for the ‘Modus’ and for the treatise on the Marshal’s office.
[638] He was earl of Norfolk.
[639] Vol v. pp. 260, 261.
[640] “Sciatis quod, cum carissimum fratrem nostrum Thomam de Holand, comitem Kancie de officio marescalli Angl[ie], quod nuper habuit ex concessione nostra, exoneraverimus, Nos ea de causa dilectum consanguineum et fidelem nostrum Thomam Comitem Notyngh’ ad dictum officium ordinavimus, habendum cum feodis et omnibus aliis ad officium illud spectantibus ad totam vitam ipsius,” etc. (Pat. 9 Ric. II., part 1, m. 38).
[641] Dictionary of National Biography.
[642] Dictionary of National Biography.
[643] The witnesses were the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of London and Winchester, John of Gaunt, the dukes of York and Gloucester, the earls of Arundel, Stafford, and Suffolk, Hugh de Segrave the treasurer and John de Montacute steward of the household.
[644] p. 311 above.