[623] The Emperor Sigismund came to London May 7, 1416, to try to make peace between England and France.
[624] Query, Castile soap.
[625] The ancient word Easterlings or Osterlings (whence Sterling) signifies from the east, and embraces the inhabitants of all the seventy-two Hanse Towns.
[626] It used to be thought that “lodemenage” had some connection with the mariner’s compass, but this is not the case. The word is a hybrid, part English, part French, and means “pilotage.” It is used several times in that sense in 3 George i. c. 13. Compare with it, “Loadsman” (the priest), “Loadstar,” and “Loads-stone,” all agreeing in their composition with “load,” i.e. some leading or guiding influence.
[627] See Treaty of Charles II. with the States-General.
[628] “The bonnet is belonging to another saile, and is commonly used with none but the missen, maine, and fore-sailes, and the sprit-sailes. I have seene, but it is very rare, a top-saile bonnet, and hold it very useful in an easie gale, quarter-winde, or before a wind. This is commonly one-third as deepe as the saile it belongs to; there is no certaine proportion, for some will make the maine-sail so deep, that with a showele bonnet, they will latch all the mast without a drabbler.” Manwayring, Sir H., “Seamen’s Dictionary presented to the late Duke of Buckingham,” Lond. 4to, 1644. See also “The Sailor’s Word-Book,” by Admiral W. H. Smyth, Lond., 1867.
[629] Ordinance of Hastings. Sir Harris Nicolas has thrown some doubt on this ordinance of King John, because we have no record that he was ever at Hastings; on the other hand, Sir Travers Twiss—who is supported in his view by Sir Duffus Hardy—shows that he may easily have been there, and issued it in the second year of his reign, A.D. 1201. (Black-Book, p. L.)
[630] This heavy expense doubtless applies to a time of war; but the return speaks also of previous debts of Henry IV. on Calais which had not been paid off.
[631] Fœdera, vol. v. p. 113.
[632] Act 9 Henry V. Stat. 1, ch. 10.