to be prisoned at the kynges pleasure that he do not lete prisoner goo owte of the hoste for his raunsom, nor for non other cause, withoute licence of the kyng, cunstable, or chief of the battaill in the whiche he is.

Also that everi man do well and truly his watch in the hoste and with as many men of armes and archers as he is assigned unto, and to abide the terme sett to hym, withowte goyng any other waie, save by the assignement of the chief of the wache, till it be tyme, on payne to have his hedde smeten of.

Also that non do geve sauf conduit to prisoner, nor to none other, nor also leve to non enmy to come into the hoste, upon payne of forfaytyng his goodes to the kynge and his bodi in areste at the kynges pleasure, but onli owre souveraigne lorde the kynge, the duke of Lancastre stewarde, the cunstable, and marshall; and that non be so hardi to breke the sauf conduct of owre said souveraigne lorde the kynge, upon payne to be drawen and hanged, and his goodes and landes forfait to the kynge. Nor also to breke the sauf conduit of the said duke, cunstable, and marshall, upon payne to have ther hedes smyten of.

Also if any man take a prisoner that he take his faith, and his hedde pece, or his right gauntelet of hym in a gage, and in token that he hath so taken hym, or elles to leve hym in kepyng with some of his men, upon payne that if he do not as ys said, an another cometh after and taketh hym, if he be owte of kepyng as ys said other hedde pece or gauntelot in gauge, he shall have the said prisoner, how be it thow the firste have his faith.

Also that no man be so hardi to receyve another mannes servande that is in couvenaunte for this viage, as well souldeour, man of armes, archer, page, or boye, after that he be demaunded and chalenged bi his maister, upon payne to be imprisoned till he have made agreament to the complaynaunt by the jugment of the courte, and his horse and harneis to be forfait to the cunstable.

Also that none be so hardi to goo a foragyng before them that shall appoynte the lodgeyngs as herbengers, and if it be a man of armes that so goth afore he shall lose horse and harneis to the cunstable, and his body in the marchallis areste; and yf he be an archer, page, or boye, he shall have his right eare cutte of.

Also that non be so hardi for to lodge hymselfe, but bi the assignement of the herbegers, whiche be assigned to make lodgeynges, on the foresaid payne.

Also that everi lorde whatsoever he be, shall cause to be delyverid the names of the herbegers to the cunstable and marshall, on payne that any cometh and take lodgeyng, and his name be not delyverid to the cunstable and marshall, he shall lose his horse and armes.

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NOTES AND ERRATA.

xxxiv. 1. 17. For "mutantis" read "mutandis." xl. Pipes de corio.-These leathern pipes were for the purpose of preventing the horses being galled by the gearing, and have been retained to the present day.

xliii. 1. 8. For "loyal" read "faithful."

xlix. A collar called Pusan d'or.-That is, of gold manufactured at Pisa. This explanation occurs in a deed of Henry V. in the Fœdera, vol. ii. p. 405. Quoddam magnum colerum vocatum Pusan, de operationibus

For the greater part of these Notes the Author has to express his acknowledgments to his learned friend Dr. Meyrick.

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coronarum et bestiarum et de albo inamelatum bestiis illis super berragio viride positis. The word was variously written Pusen, Pysane, Pizaine, Pissand, Pesane, and Pesens.

liii. Candlesticks with pikes.-Those which instead of having nozles, were furnished with spikes, on which the

candles were stuck. The fashion still remains for altar candlesticks in the chapels at Oxford.

liv. St George's.-Judging from the route, this seems to be St. George's in the Fields.

Ixviii. 1. 4. For "sixteenth" read "fifteenth."

lxxii. 1. 12. For "nutu" read "natu."

xcv. Battalions.-The reader must bear in mind that this word is invariably used, not in its modern sense, but as the translation of battailes, which implied those divisions of an army, that at present obtain the name of lines or columns according to their position.

xcix. These tubes were a small kind of ordnance; hand firearms were not invented before the year 1430. xcvii. Six thousand bacinets, implies as many men at arms. Flondelles appears to be a misprint for Rhondelles, the circular shields borne by such as were engaged at the engines and others, to protect them during their operations.

c. 1. 4. For "want" read "wont."

ciii. Arblesters, from the French Arbalêtriers, i. e. Crossbow-men.

cv. 1. 16. For "city" read "town."

cviii. Upper end was drawn downwards.-This seems to refer to

a flat covering, which turned on two pins on opposite sides, and was pulled down to protect the men while preparing, and pushed up when they were ready to assault the enemy. An ancient machine of this character occurs in an illumination of a "Cronique d'Angleterre" of the time of Edw. IV. in the Royal Library in the British Museum, marked 14 E. IV.

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cxxviii. 1. 6. For "mountain" read "hill.”

exxxii. Tappgetes. This is a corruption of Trepget, itself a contraction of Trebuchet, called also Trebock, and Trabuchs. It was a machine invented by the French, and named Trois bouches, from discharging three stones from three mouths or boxes at the same time. For further information respecting it see the Glossary to the "Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour."

cxli. Ducatum here implies the office of the Dux or leader, and may therefore be translated "the generalship."

cxlvi. Pierced between the plates of his armour.-All the monumental effigies of the time of Henry V. shew that the abdomen was then covered by a succession of plates sometimes termed Taces, from the German language, because they covered the pockets.

cxlviii. Berruyeres is a misprint for Bervyeres or beevers. clxxxiv. Cotes d'armes.-The monumental effigy of Richa. de Vere, Earl of Oxford, at Earl's Colne, Essex, who died in 1416, and an illumination in a MS. List of Benefactors to the Abbey of St. Albans, in the Cotton Lib. Nero D. vii. representing Robert Chaumberlayne, Esquire to King Henry Vth, exhibit the appearance of the Cote d'armes or emblazoned juppon of this time.

clxxxvi. Aguilettes.-In the time of Henry V. the fronts of the shoulders, a wound received in which renders a man hors de combat, were protected by circular plates called palettes, and these were attached by means of straps or points, as they were called, with tags or aguilettes at the end. The word here implies the whole fastening. The elbows were sometimes similarly protected. An illumination in Lydgate's Pilgrim, in the Harl. MS. in the Brit. Mus. marked 4826, exhibits the Earl of Salisbury with palettes, in which the aguilettes are very conspicuous.

Bachinet à bariere should evidently be à baviere, that

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is having a beaver. The portrait of Robert Chaumberlayne before mentioned, gives a fine specimen of this, with the pipe at the apex of the basinet holding its plume of feathers, first adopted at the commencement of the reign of Henry Vth

clxxxvii. Three fingers.-These were the three fingers with which the archers drew the bow-string, the little finger being alone disused.

clxxxvii. Serpentines.—A species of ordnance. It was so denominated from its mouth being made to resemble that of a serpent, as the culverine colubrina was from the snake; the falcon, and its diminutive the falconet, from the bird of prey so called, and others. The idea had been taken from the tubes

for casting the Greek fire.

exci. French loaded with armour.-The long coats of steel were the breast and back plates, with their dependant taces. The white harness was the hausse-col which was put over the camail that hung from the basinet, and the monumental effigy of Sir Edmund de Thorpe, in Ashwelthorpe Church Norfolk, gives an example of it.

cxcvii. Nestrocque.-A corruption from "Now strike," the words used by the Marshal, who having finished his

duty, by having arranged all the troops, threw up his baton, and made this exclamation.

excviii. Mallets and bill-hooks.-These were the ordinary weapons of the infantry, and continued in use till the end of the reign of Henry VIIIth.

cciii. Morask.-Moresque or Moorish.

ccv. Helmet with a large splendid crest.-The crest was at this time only worn with the helmet, but the helmet solely at the tournament, the basinet having a visiere or baviere, as it was indifferently termed, being used in battle. So the previous accounts represent Henry with the crown on his basinet. Yet over his monument, in Westminster Abbey, are his war-shield and saddle, with his tournament helmet;