The following document, in connexion with the trial between Morlee and Lovell, in the Court of Chivalry, will probably interest your heraldic readers.
L. B. Larking.
Ceste indentur tesmoyne q' mosr John de Cobehm sr de Cobehm ad baille p assent de les sires de Morlee et Louel dys lib' de bone moneye amest' John Barnet, cest assau' cent south pr le un ptye et cent south pr lautre ptye acause q' mesme le dit mestre John et mest' Willm Dawode et mest' Willm Sondeye serrount assessours sur la matire pendaunt pentre les deux syngn' susdite pr leur armes en le Court de Chiualerie. En tesmoynaunce de quel payment a ycestes endentur lez ptyes susditez entrechaungeablement ount mys lours sceals.
Don a Loundres le xx iur de Feu'er lan du rengne le Roy Richard secounde quinzisme.
[In dorso.]
Lendentur de x li paye a mest' John Barnet pr Morlee et Louel.
SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.
Shakspeare Emendations.—As this is the age of Shakspeare emendations, I beg to propose the following for the consideration of the numerous readers of "N. & Q." I am the more emboldened to do so, as I find several marginal corrections made from time to time are verified by the manuscript corrections in Mr. Collier's folio of 1632. These proposed are not, however, there, or I would not have troubled you, though it is many months since I first altered the reading of my copy.
Taming of the Shrew, Act V. Sc. 2.—On the exit of Katharina to "fetch" in the disobedient wives, Lucentio remarks:
"Luc. Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.
Hort. And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.