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These deeds, and the greater part of others quoted in these memoirs, are preserved in the Chartulary of Cambray. Extracts from them were communicated by M. Mutte, dean of Cambray, to M. de Foncemagne, who lent, them to M. Dacier.
They are preserved in MS. by the regular canons of St Aubert in Cambray.
‘This extract was published by M. Villaret in the xiith vol. of his ‘Histoire de France,’ edition in 12mo. page 119.’
‘The text of Monstrelet is _Pâques Communiaux_. This expression has seemed to some learned men to be equally applicable to Palm as to Easter Sunday. M. Secousse, in a note on these words, which he has added to page 480 of the ixth volume of Ordinances, reports both opinions, without deciding on either. But the sense is absolutely determined as to Easter-day in this passage of Monstrelet, and in a paper quoted by du Chesne, among the proofs to the genealogy of the house of Montmorenci, p. 224. It is a receipt from Anthony de Waevrans, esquire, châtelain of Lille, with this date,—‘the 2d of April, on the vigil of _Pâques communiaux avant la cierge benit_, in the year 1490.’ The circumstance of the paschal taper clearly shows it to have been written on holy Saturday, which fell that year on the 2d of April, since Easter-day of 1491 was on the 3d of the same month.—See l’Art de Verifier les Dates.’
I have a copy of these corrections, which are introduced either into the body of the text or at the bottom of the page.
‘More slobbering than a mustard pot;’ but Cotgrave translates this, ‘Foaming at the mouth like a boar.’
‘Having compared these different chronicles, underneath is the result.
The truces between England and France, from the Grandes Chroniques.
Measures taken by the king of France relative to the troubles in the church, by the election of the duke of Savoy to the popedom, Ditto.
Taking of Fougeres, Ditto, and in Jean Chartier.
Capture of Pont de l’Arche, &c. Ditto. Ditto.
From page 11. to page 23. in the original, Ditto.
With this difference, that the continuator of Monstrelet omits to report the treaties of surrender of many towns, and that he sometimes inverts the order of events.
From page 29. to page 35. from the Grandes Chroniques.