[APPENDIX A]
TOURNEY
Abstracts of the Ashmolean Manuscripts,
regarding the Tourney.[277]
| No. 764. | |
| p. 6. | “Cy sensuyt la façon des criz de Tournois et des Joustes. Cy peut on à prendre à crier et à publier pour ceulx qui en seront dignes.” 31-43. |
On the reverse of the last leaf is a picture of the Joust, whereon two combatants on horseback, bearing their crests, are fighting with lances within the lists. | |
| No. 1105. | |
| p. 9. | Extracts from various records about Tournaments and Knighthood. 200 et seq., 210. |
| No. 840. | |
| p. 73. | A Justing-cheque, showing how the spears were broken. 298. |
| No. 763. | |
| II. p. 5. | Rules, etc. 148-149. |
“The Ordinaunce, statutes and rules made by John Lord Typtofte, Erle of Worcester, Countstable of England by the Kinges commaundment, at Windsour the 29 of May ao sexto Edwardi quarti, to be observed and kepte in all manner of Justes of pees royall with in this realme of England.” | |
MS. copies of these ordinances are not uncommon, and much differing from each other. They are printed in Harrington’s Nugae Antiquae by Park; and in Dr. Meyrick’s Critical Essay on antient armor, II, 179-186, with valuable notes from the MS. M. 6, in the Heralds’ College. | |
| No. 763. | |
| p. 5. | The same Ordinaunce and statutes. 181. |
| 6. | Rules for combatants “At Tornay.” 149b. |
| No. 857. | |
| p. 213. | “Rights due att the tournay. Firste the Kinge of Armes....” 506. |
| No. 1115. | |
| p. 43. | Preamble to articles of tilting, addressed unto the King. 92. |
| No. 860. | |
| The “Round Table” prohibited, 36 Hen. III, 88.[278] | |
| No. 1109. | |
| p. 191. | Tournament at Windsor, Names of the combatants and judges in a “Course at feild at Windsor the 17th of Nov: 1593, ao regni reginae.” 36. 154b. |
| No. 856. | |
| p. 5. | Justing at the marriage of Richard Duke of York (1477). A narrative, by an eye-witness, of the marriage of Richard Duke of York, and Ann daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, and of the grand justing then celebrated in 1477, and the 17th yeare of King Edward IV. 94-104. Transcribed “Ex MS. in praefat’ Bibl’ Hatton.” |
This article is fully as curious as the narrative of the justing of Anthony Lord Scales, which was published by W. H. B. in the Excerpta Historica, in June, 1830. | |
| No. 1116. | |
| p. 10. | Justs at Westminster. (1511.) |
“Justes houlden at Westminster the xijth daie of Februar by the Kinges grace (Henry VIII) called Cueur Loyal, the Lord William of Devon Bon Voloir, Sʳ Thomas Knivet Valiant Desire, and Edward Nevell Joyous Penser, with the articles and courses of the said Justes etc.” 109-110b. | |
The articles begin thus—“The noble lady Renowne considering the good and gracious fortune....” The “courses” are tilting-lists for the two days (Wednesday and Thursday, 12-13 Feb., 1511,) marked with strokes, and accounts of the “best joustres.” | |
| p. 56. | “The appoynctement of the standinge schaffoldes in the Kinges pallace of Westminster, at his justes. First next unto the King on his right hande the Earles,” etc. 47 b. |
| No. 837. | |
| p. 17. | The Field of the Cloth of Gold at Guisnes (1520). |
“Ce sont les noms des princes, prellatz, et grans seigneurs de France, qui estoient en la compaignie de Roy de France quant le Roy (Henry VIII) Dengleterre et led’ sr le Roy (Francois) sentrevyrent et ordonnerent les Joustes et Tournoys qui sensuyvent.” 179ba. | |
Prefixed to the title is a stanza of 5 lines, inviting to the justs. | |
| No. 1116. | |
| p. 7*. | The Field of the Cloth of Gold at Guisnes (1520). |
“The proclamacōn in Frenche of the articles of the Justes and other feates of armes at the meeting of the aforesaid Kinges (Henry and Francois) at Guisnes, proclaimed through the realme of France by Thomas Benolt al’s Clarencieux King of Armes. Comme ainsi soit louange ...” 105-7b. | |
| p. 8. | “The lettres of savegarde given by the said King of England unto Thomas Walle al’s Norrey King of Armes, for the proclamacōn of the same Joustes in the parties of Almayn and the contrye of Germania, wch Norrey proclamed thē as welle in French for the lowe contreys, as in high Dutch as hereafter followeth etc.” 107b-108b. Dated 1520. |
| p. 5*. | Narrative of “The meating of the King of England (and) the Emperor at Canterburie, and the meating of the said King and the French King at Guysnes, Anno D’ni 1520.” 100-3b. |
| No. 837. | |
| p. 21. | Running at the Ring (t. Edw. VI?). |
“These persones[279] here underwrytten beinge one of the Kinges part the playntyff, and the other wt th erle of Rutland defendant, dyd run at ye rynge iiij course every man, at wch tyme mone toke the ryng but only Mr. Hayward and Mr. Constable beinge wt the defendant,” etc. 185a. | |
Tourneys t. Eliz. | |
| p. 43. | The Challenge of four Knights errant, the Earl of Oxford, Charles Howard, Sir Henry Lee, and Sir Chr. Hatton; against all comers, at the tilt, tourney and barriours; addressed unto the Queen for permission to perform the same. 245. |
Note that the said challenge was proclaimed by Clarencieux, on twelfth-night, 1570; and that the exercises were performed on 1, 2, and 6 May. 245b. | |
Written invertedly by another hand. Other papers relating to the same affair are in No. 845, artt. 37, 39. No. 845. II, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and at p. 599. | |
| No. 845. | |
| p. 36. | Tilting-list and cheque, at a tourney between the Earl of Oxford, Charles Howard, Sir Hen. Lea, and Chr. Hatton, challengers, and seven sets of comers; with their arms tricked. 164. See No. 837, Art. XLIIII. |
| p. 38. | A Tilting-list, showing the antagonists of the Earl of Oxford and others. 167a. |
| p. 37. | “These be the names of the noblemen and gentlemen, that for the honor of the Queenes Maᵗⁱᵉ did their endevor at the Tylt at Westminster on the xvijth day of November, being the first day of the xxiiijth yere of the reigne of queene Elizabeth,” etc. (1581). 165. |
| p. 39. | “Hastiludium apud Westm’ die Solis 6. Decembris 1584, coram Regina, inter nuptos decem et tot coelibes.” 168. |
| p. 37. | “The Tourney holden at Westminster, on monday the 15 of May, 1581, when the prince Delphine of Auvergne and other the Frenshe commissioners were here.” 166a-5b. |
| p. 40. | Proclamation (in French) of the adjudged conduct of combatants, and award of the prize, at a jousting before Queen Elizabeth. 171b. |
| p. 41. | Proclamation (in English) of the adjudgement of prizes to Don Fredericque de Teledo, and other foreign nobles, on an other occasion. 171a. |
Draught of another proclamation (in English) concerning the conduct of gentlemen at the tilt and tourney, not named. 170a. | |
| No. 837. | |
| p. 5. | “The manner of the first cominge into the tiltyard, of the most high and mighty prince Charles Prince of Wales, sonne and heir apparent of our sovereign lo. Kinge James, on friday the xxiiijth of March 1619; which was in the most princely and royall manner that had bene sene many yeares before.” 129-132. |
An original paper, with notes and corrections by one of the Heralds. This art. is recorded in the Heralds’ MS., M. 3. f. 1-3b. | |
| No. 1127. | |
| p. XIV. 2. | Tournament of the Knight of the Royal Amaranthus. In the first quarter of the 17th century. 198-9b. |
| No. 1116. | |
| p. 9*. | “The manner how the price[280] shall be given at Joustes of peace royall, and for what considercōns it should be forfeited and lost. |
First who so breaketh most speeres,” etc. 108b. | |
| p. 11*. | “A demonstracōn by John Writh alias Garter, to King Edward the Fourth, touching three Knyghtes of high Almayn wch came to do arms in England, with the instruccōns by them geven unto the saide Gartr and the articles of their feates and enterprise.” 111-3b. The year must have been 1473. |
| No. 763. | |
| p. 16. | “The office of a Kinge at Armes. Fyrst as nyghe as he canne he shall take knowledge and kepe recorde of creastes cognissances and auntient used wordes,” etc. 158ab. |
| No. 837. | |
| p. 8. | “The definition of an Esquire, and the severall sortes of them according to the custome and usage of England. An esquire called in Latine armiger ...” 162a. |
| No. 1116. | |
| p. 111. | The Names and Arms of the Sovereigns and Knights or the Order of the Golden Fleece (Toison d’or), from its institution in 1429 to the twenty-third festival of the Order, which was holden by King Philip of Spain, 12 Aug. 1559; historical accounts of the celebration of the feasts, in French. ff. 137b-186. |
The MS. is beautifully written, with the arms tricked (four on each page), by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. | |
| p. 88. | Lists of the Knights, and notes of the celebration of S. George’s feast, in 1589 and 1593, at Westminster. 67a. |
| p. 89. | Lists of Knights, and notes of the celebration of S. George’s feast, in 1584, at Westminster, and 15 Apr. 1585, at Windsor. 67b. |
| No. 837. | |
| p. XXVI. | “The Office of ye Marshall.” 198ab. |
| No. 1127. | |
| p. XIII. | “The Statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece” (27 Nov. 1431); and “The Ordinances for the Officers of the Order.” 139-166-167-175b. |
[APPENDIX B]
HARLEIAN MS. RELATING TO THE TOURNAMENT