[ [61] ]
[61] That is, the grand prior of the Hospital.
[ [62] ]
'Les quatre pars d'eux,' 'four-fifths of them.'
[ [63] ]
This is called afterwards 'l'Ospital de Saint Jehan du Temple,' and therefore would probably be the Temple, to which the Hospitallers had suceeded. They had, however, another house at Clerkenwell, which also had been once the property of the Templars.
[ [64] ]
The Queen's Wardrobe was in the 'Royal' (called by Froissart or his copyist 'la Réole'), a palace near Blackfriars.
[ [65] ]
Or rather, 'he found a place on the left hand to pass without London.'
[ [66] ]
The full text has, 'for as much gold as that minster of Saint Paul is great.'
[ [67] ]
'Jamais je veux vivre, si tu ne le compares.'
[ [68] ]
'Outrage' here means 'act of boldness,' as elsewhere, e.g. 'si fist une grant apertise d'armes et un grant outrage.'
[ [69] ]
'Qui estoit des draps du roy.' He owned large estates in Essex and also shops in London. He became one of the councillors of Richard II.
[ [70] ]
George, earl of March and Dunbar: the text gives Mare, but there was at this time no earl of Mar.