[101, 2]. I.e., the Chief Justice had been retained for the abbot by robe and fee. A writer in Notes and Queries, (vol. vi. p. 479,) quotes statutes of Edward I. and Edward III. against maintenance, in which the abuse of robes and fees is mentioned, and cites the following clause from the oath required to be taken by justices: "And that ye will take no fee so long as ye shall be justices, nor robes, of any man great or small, except of the king himself."
[122], leue, W. Lende us, C.
[126], loke (for call), W. C.
[148], grete, W. get, C.
[150], thou. PCC.
[180]. This is a place unknown. There is a forest in Lancashire, observes Ritson, of the name of Wierysdale, but it appears subsequently that the knight's castle was in Nottinghamshire.
[207], sute, C.
[218], I up pyght, W. up ypyght, C.
[234], fere, W. in fere, C.