[345] Kerrich Collections in Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 6,731, f. 4.
[347] We are again obliged to borrow illustrations of our subject from the fourteenth century. This manuscript appears to have been illuminated about 1360.
[352] _Archæologia_, vol. xvii. pp. 302 and 305.
[355] shields? Perhaps, coming with the body-armour, the ailettes.
[357] gloves: _gants_? See the glossarists.
[360] Froissart, bk. ii. ch. 200, ed. Buchon.
[362] He died in 1247. The effigy is figured by Willemin, vol. i., Pl. XCI.; and by Guilhermy, page 164.
[364] De Bauçoio: _Descriptio Victoriæ_ &c. apud Duchesne, t. v.
[365] Gesta Ludov. IX. ap. Duchesne, t. v. p. 377.
[366] Compare Surtees' Durham, where there is a rude cut of the effigy, vol. iii. p. 151.
[370] See _Archæologia_, vol. xii. Plate LI.
[375] Statutes of the Realm, j., 230: circa 1290.
[381] The stirrup Cross-bow is seen in our engraving.
[383] From the Italian? an arbalest to be bent by "naturall strength" alone: see Florio, v. _Lena_.
[384] Pesarola is a balance, but the application of the word is not clear.
[386] Fragment. Hist. Dalphin., t. ii. p. 64.
[388] Paris, p. 689; and compare page 1,092.
[391] Paris, p. 853. Compare Chron. of Dunstable, p. 366, and M. Westminster, p. 387.
[396] Evidently a mistake of the transcriber. Such a sum of thirteenth century money would make about £300 of modern currency.
[397] The silver matrix of the seal of this baron is still in existence, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in 1777, as recorded in the fifth volume of the _Archæologia_. Plate XVII. of that volume gives us a representation of the seal. It exhibits the "saddle of the arms of the said Robert:" the arms being repeated on the shield and housing: the knight is armed with the sword. This seal was made between 1298 and 1304, as it contains also a shield of the arms of Ferrers; Robert Fitz Walter having married a lady of that house in 1298: she dying in 1304, the baron married into another family.
[398] The Elms in Smithfield; an ancient place of execution. A Close Roll of this century (4. Hen. III.) mentions the "Furcæ factæ apud Ulmellos com. Middlesex." Strype, b. iii. p. 238.
[399] Pat. 24 Ed. I. in Turr. Lond.--New Rymer, vol. i. p. 848.