338 MASSINGER-NICOLSON AND BURN. [A green Apron.] ters shall be made so plain, as there shall be no question to stick upon that day. Which indenture, as a witness, shall be delivered to two gentlemen. And for that it is convenient the world should be privy MASSINGER'S Renegado. to every particular of the grounds of the "NOT two hours since there landed An English pirates whore with a green apron." [Buffin Gowns and Green Aprons.] ENTER Lady Frugal, Anne and Mary in coarse habits, weeping. Mill. My young ladies [Trial by Combat of Arms.] "Ir is agreed between Thomas Musgrave and Lancelot Carleton, for the true trial of such controversies as are betwixt quarrel, we have agreed to set it down in this indenture betwixt us, that knowing the quarrel, their eyes may be witnesses of the trial. "The grounds of the quarrel: "1. Lancelot Carleton did charge Thomas Musgrave before the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council, that Lancelot Carleton was told by a gentleman, one of her Majesty's sworn servants, that Thomas Musgrave had offered to deliver her Majesty's castle of Bewcastle to the King of Scots and to witness the same. Lancelot Carleton had a letter under the gentleman's own hand for his discharge. Majesty doth yearly bestow a great fee "2. He chargeth him, that whereas her and defend her Majesty's subjects, therein upon him as captain of Bewcastle, to aid Thomas Musgrave hath neglected his duty; for that her Majesty's castle of Bewcastle was by him made a den of thieves, and an harbour and receipt for murderers, felons, and all sorts of misdemeanors. The precedent was Quintin Whitehead and Runion Blackburne. "3. He chargeth him, that his office of Bewcastle is open for the Scots to ride in and through, and small resistance made by him to the contrary. them, to have it openly tried by way of combat, before God and the face of the world, to try it in Canonby Holme, before England and Scotland, upon Thursday in Easter week, being the 8th day of April next ensuing, A.D. 1602, betwixt nine of the clock and one of the same day; to fight on foot; to be armed with jack, steel cap, plaite sleeves, plaite breeches, plaite sockes, two baslaerd' swords, the blades to be one yard and half a quarter of length, two Scotch daggers or dorks at their girdles, and either of them to provide armour and weapons for themselves according to this indenture. Two gentlemen to be appointed "Thomas Musgrave doth deny all this on the field to view both the parties, to see charge, and saith that he will prove that that they both be equal in arms and weaLancelot Carleton doth falsly bely him, and pons according to this indenture; and bewill prove the same by way of combat, acing so viewed by the gentlemen, the gen-cording to this indenture. Lancelot Cartlemen to ride to the rest of the company, and to leave them but two boys, viewed by the gentlemen to be under sixteen years of age, to hold their horses. In testimony of this our agreement, we have both set our hands to this indenture, of intent all mat 1 See DU CANGE and NARES' Glossary. leton hath entertained the challenge, and so by God's permission will prove it true as before, and hath set his hand to the same. "Thomas Musgrave, NIC. and BURN's West. p. 595. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER [Onion-a Nostrum for the Plague.] "THE plague I'll cure it with an onion." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER's Mad Lover. [Magnetic Compasses.] A MR. H-H is said about half a century ago to have been celebrated for making compasses with artificial needles, to which he communicated the magnetic qualities himself. [Bolt and Screw to fasten the Door.] WHEN D. Luisa de Carvajal travelled she carried with her a bolt and screw to fasten the chamber door. [Barbarous Cruelty of the Knights of the Round Table.] "Sire, dist Lancelot, que ferons nous de cest escuyer? Il le convient ahontagier et vergonder de ses membres et le renvoyer a Nabon pour le courroncer et faire despit.-Or allez tost a lescuyer et luy couppez ung pied et ung poing, et luy crevez ung oeil. Et le remontez sus son cheval, et puis sen revoyse a son seigneur le geant, et luy dye que ce despit luy a fait Lancelot du Lac, et Palamedes compaignons de la table ronde, et que nous yrons bien tost veoir. Ainsi comme Lancelot le commanda ainsi fut fait."-MELIADUS, c. 170, p. 229. 3. De Varietat. lib. 8, cap. 43, fol. mi. 148, column 2. [Good Princes produce Good Subjects.] WHEN King John was come to Paris, calling the parliament together, he complained with a pitiful tone of his misfortune and the calamities of the realm, and amongst the rest lamented that he could now find no Rowlands or Gawins; to which one of the peers, whose valour had been famous in his youth, and therefore an enemy to the King's sloth, answered there would be no want of Rowlands if there were Charlemains.'-HECTOR BOYS' Scot. Hist. b. 15, ff. 330. RITSON's Diss. on Romance and Minstrelsy. [Irish Slingers.] IN Ireland men were particularly trained to the exercise of slinging, and were so expert at it as to be certain of hitting any object within its reach. By it Connor King of Ulster, near the birth of Christ, had his skull fractured, and some years after the famous Meibh Queen of Conaught received her death. Besides stones, the Irish slingers used a composition of quick lime, coarse gravel, brick dust and blood which they worked into a mass, and of this formed balls of different sizes for their Cran-Tubals, or slings.-O'HALLORAN. And if it cometh of a weddede woman 12. And if thou canst in anye wyse, To thee, thine heires and assynes alsoo. -Cont. of Monstrellet. JOHNES's Trans. vol. 2, p. 22. "Is it [Reverend Mules.] my niece? Nay then be welcome;-and to encourage you, Altho' her father, a poor gentleman, My brother, by the malice of the sea And winds, have lost what might have rank'd him even With some that ride upon their reverend mules, I'll find a portion for her." SHIRLEY. The Brothers. [Par esperons on commence soy armer.] "Voulez-vous, dit Pantagruel, maintenir que la braguette est piece premiere de harnois militaire? C'est doctrine moult paradoxe et nouvelle Car nous disons que par esperons on commence soy armer." Upon this passage Duchat has the following note. "Proverbe: fondé, suivant From H. K. WHITE'S papers, said there to be "from a vellum MS. of jambieres ou chausses de fer; et que si pour Fauchet, sur ce que les esperons tenoient aux the reign of Elizabeth." [Stools, or, Moveable Seats.] THE Knight of Fortune removed his stool and sate down by her.-Palmerin of England. [Eel Pies.] MONSTRELLET mentions horseloads of eel-pies brought from Mantes to the market of Paris.-Vol. 10, p. 410. [Questionable Healthiness of Beans.] "In the month of June of this year 1466, the beans were very abundant and good,— nevertheless very many persons of both sexes lost their senses at this time in Paris." les chausser, l'homme d'armes eût attendu qu'il eût mit son casque, et vetu sa cuirasse, ayant ainsi la tête chargée, et le corps gené il n'en seroit jamais venu à bont.” [Their Heir the Successor to the Quarrels of the Feudal Times.] "Ad quemcunque hereditas terræ pervenerit, ad illum vestis bellica, id est lorica, et ultro proximi, et solutio leudis, debet pertinere." -Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, tit. 6, § 5. CANCIANI, t. 3, p. 33. [Immoderate Bleeding.] BLEEDING seems to have been cruelly practised in Hakevill's time. See Dr. Deo 1 "Compositio quam aliter Weram et Wergildum vocant."-H. SPELMANNI. Glossarium in v.— J. W. W. SHIRLEY MONSTRELLET- TIRANTE IL BIANCO. ww [A Proud Don.] "I AM a gentleman With as much sense of honour as the proudest Don that doth ride on's foot cloth, and can drop 341 Et date's letter in his appendix, how he took | rable and religious person, Master HONORE sixty ounces from a man of seventy-six and BONHOR, Prior of Salon, in his book entitled cured him. L'Arbre des Batailles. "Car quant le hault sire Dieu crea les angelz, il en fist ung tant bel et tant glorieux, que de beaulte il surmonte toutes les aultres creatures celestielles. tant resplendissoit la clarte de luy, que toute la beaulte des aultres mettoit au bas, ainsi que fuit ung grant cierge ardant que abaisse la clarte dune petite chandelle. Et quant il se vid si noble et si bel, il se pensa quil monteroit au plus hault lieu du ciel, et meltroit illec sa chayere pour estre semblable an nostre seigneur. Adonc quant il eut ce ordonne de faire, la bataille fut commencee contra luy et aussi contre tous ceulx que de sa partie estoient. Et fut faicte ceste dessu dicte bataille par les bons anges de paradis, que point ne vouloient soustenir ceste oppinion en quelque maniere que ce fust."—Chap. 2. Gold to the numerous minutes of his age." [Badge and Arms of the Count d'Armagnac.] "THE King of France on the Saturday in the holy week, the third of April, marched out of Paris in a triumphant manner, and with great state, to the town of Senlis to wait for his army. He there celebrated the feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The king and the Duke of Acquitaine wore, on this expedition, the badge and arms of the Count d'Armagnac, laying aside that noble and gallant banner which he and his royal predecessors had hitherto borne, for the plain white cross. Many of the great barons, knights, and other loyal servants of the king's and the duke, were much displeased at this, saying that it was not becoming the excellence of his royal majesty to bear the arms of so poor a lord as the Count d'Armagnac, particularly as it was for his own personal quarrel, and within his own realm. This banner, which was now the cause of such rejoicing, had been given to an ancestor of the said count, by the decision of a pope, to be borne for ever by him and his heirs and successors as a penalty for certain crimes committed by his predecessors against the church."-MONSTRELLET, vol. 4, p. 20. [The Placing of the Chair.] A MUCH more serious dispute concerning placing a chair is noticed by that vene [Ships protected by Matrasses.] "QUESTO marinaio fece ancora piu, che tolse tutti i matarazzi che'l trovò nella nave, et ne armò, et coperse il castello et le sponde della nave, et quando le bombarde tiravano, davano ne gli matarazzi, et male ne danno alla nave far non poteano.”—Tirante il Bianco, p. 1, c. 30, ff. 136. A good Precedent of withholding Supplies. "Lo Rey en Pere sen torna en Barcelona e convoca corts als Cathalans. E com foren tots los estaments ajustato, lo Rey los proposa son intent dient los tals paraules. Be sabeu vosalters tots los qui açi sou, com yo he haguts molts afers, e iames de vosaltres me so pogut ajudar, ne valer, tant en lo regne de Sicilia com en les altres coses en que yom so trobat. E ara ya sabeu com los Françesos, mos enemics me venen al dessus, e lo Papa qui ha donada la cruada contra mi. E lo Rey de França qui es en Narbona per entrar en Cathalunya ab son poder, e veig que neguns de vosaltres nom 342 PERE TOMICH - PIETRO DELLA VALLE. haveu defes, e crec que vosaltres volrieu que yo fos deseretat per tant com nos teniu per contents de mi: e som maravellat de vosaltres com vos haveu mesa tal fantasia al capcar be podeu pensar que axi sabre yo ben viore de art de cavalleria, com negu de vosaltres en cars que sia deseretat, e seguir lo mon com a cavaller. Mas non sembla bona raho que per voler la mia destructio vosaltres vos lexeu deseretar e perdre ço del vostre, e venir en mans de mos enemics e vostros per queus prec com a leyals vassalls que son, tota mala opinio apart posada, que vosaltres façau vers mi ço que bons, faels, e leyals vassalls han acostumat de fer vers lur senyor. "E com lo Rey hague acabat lo rahonament dessus dit, les corts li respongueren en la forma seguent. Senyor vostra gran senyoria sab be que fins açi en vostres cuytats, actes e fets, tostemps lo Principat de Cathalunya vos ha valgut e aiudat, si be vostra gran Senyoria ha dit lo contrari: e vos senyor, com haveu tractat lo dit Principat; car iames foren vassalls pus mal tractats per senyor, com fins açi nosaltres som: per que senyor mollt excellent vos placia de tornar alloch tot ço que teniu de cascun stament, e lavors lo Principat fara vers vostra senyoria ço que per tostemps ha acostumat. E lo Rey havent oyda la resposta de la cort torna als prelats. Barons e universitats tot ço que tenia e torna alloch tot ço que contra justicia era estat fet, e havent lo Rey tornat alloch les coses dessus dites, ordonaren las Corts ab lo Rey," &c.-PERE TOMICH. c. 40, ff. 38. [Johan Amador de Gentilesa et Doña Vio lant.] "MORT lo exellent Rey en Pere-fou Rey son fill de tots sos regnes e terras, le qual fou appellat Johan, al qual fou imposat nom de Amador de gentilesa, e per aço fou axi appellat car tant com visque fou lo pus gentil Rey que en aquell temps fos en Chrestians. E apres que lo dit Rey hac | perduda la primera muller, estant Infant, lo Rey son pare li dona altra muller, filla del Duc de Bar, e neta del Rey de França appellada Dona Violant. E sapiau que, en lo temps de aquesta Reyna, lo Rey tenc major casa que Rey que hom sabes en Chrestians, de tot ço que en gentilesa se pertany, primerament lo Rey estava ben acompanyat de molts Comtes e Barons, e de nobles homens cavallers gentils homens en gran nombre tostemps. Apres tenia lo dit Rey molt gran aparell de cassa demunt ab gran e bella mutaria, e tenia molts falcons de totas naturas per pendre tota cassa, e tenia molts astors e sparues per cassar perdius e guatles e tenia moltas esmirlas per cassar cugullades hi pendre plaer devant donas. E tenia en la sua cort molts cobles de ministres de totas maneras per haver plaer de dançar e cantar; e estava molt be acavall de totas naturas de bestias de cavalcar, e prenia gran plaer en iunyr, e en tot ço que a cavallarià se pertany ne requer, e totes les coses dessus dites lo Rey tenia ab si continuament. Apres la Reyna sa muller tenia la pus gran casa que Reyna que hom sabes en aquell temps de Chrestians, e anava molt ben acompanyada de moltas Baronesas, nobles Damas, e mullers e fillas de cavallers e de gentils homens en gran nombre, car no havia grans damas en son regne que no fossen dela sua casa, fins ales simples damas e totas aquellas la Reyna tenia molt be aresades, segons a ella se pertanyia segons lur grau estament de tots los arreus que menester hauien, per ques pot dir ab veritat que aquest Rey e la Reyna sa muller mentre que cascu ha visent son estats millors acompanyats, e tengueren major casa que Rey ne Reyna que hom sapia de aquell temps." -Ibid. c. 45, ff. 48. [The Aba of the Persians and Arabs.] PIETRO DELLA VALLE describes the Aba as worn by the Persians and Arabs. He says it is a sayon open in front, and without sleeves. They who affected elegance threw |