—— l. 176, Ricard Fresel.—The English has Symoun Freselle.
—— l. 178, li quens de la Merche, Patrik.—Patrick, Earl of Dunbar and March, served in the English army; but his Countess, who was left in the castle of Dunbar, and who hated the English, delivered the castle to the Scots.
—— l. 180, Gilbert de Umfravile.—Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus, was one of the Scottish Barons who remained faithful to the English.
[P. 286], l. 194, Piket him, etc.—The Fairfax MS. has only four lines of this song:—
Piket him and diket him,
in skorn seiden he;
Nu piketh he it and diketh it,
his owen for to be.
In the Arundel MS. it stands thus:—
Pikit him and dikit him,