—— l. 613, disime dener.—Robert of Brunne says the twelfth penny.
[P. 315], l. 683, jeo crei.—The manner in which the writer here speaks, as well as other expressions in the course of the poem, seem to show that he wrote down the events as they happened.
[P. 316], l. 701, le Sire de Canturbir.—Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1294 to 1313.
[P. 317], l. 709, Li sire de Nichole.—Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, who died in the November of 1299.
—— l. 714, L’elyt de Everwyke.—Henry de Newark, who succeeded to the Archbishopric in 1297, and died in 1299.
[P. 318], l. 720. These English verses are only found in the Cambridge MS.
[P. 320], l. 19, Pur treys souz, &c.—Robert of Brunne translates this—
Thei profere a man to bete, for tuo schilynges or thre,
With piked staves grete beten salle he be.