—— l. 112, cum traitur est jugé.—Robert of Brunne has given more details of Turbeville’s trial than are found in the original.
[P. 282], l. 135, Le counte de Nincole.—Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury.
—— l. 136, Sir Willeam de Vescy.—William de Vescy, Lord of Alnwick, and governor of Scarborough Castle.
—— l. 153, la male rage.—“Male rage: Faim extraordinaire, enragée; mala rabies.” Roquefort.
—— l. 156, rivelins.—Apparently a kind of rough boots worn by the Scots, so called perhaps on account of their ragged and torn appearance.
—— la nue nage.—Nage is the Latin nates. The Fairfax and Arundel MS. have here a line or two of the French which is not found in the other copies, with the following fragments of English—
(F.) Tprut! Skot riveling,
In unseli timing
crope thu out of cage.
(A.) Tprut! Scot riveling,