Chapter XVII: Appendix (5)

Wel worthe swich a fot folk,
That drof the Skottes in the polk,
and paiede hem here wages.
Bi wode ne bi weye,
Ne herd I nevere seien
of prestere pages,
To pullen and to piken
The robes of the rike
that in the feld fellen.
Fi! Skot, hu spedde ye thenne?
The devel I you bikenne,
that ragged rit in helle!

The Arundel MS. gives them thus:--

Wel worth swich a fote folk,
That put the Scottes in the polk,
and paied tham their wages.
Bi wode ne bi weie,
Herd I nevere seie
of prestere pages,
To pulle and to pike
The robes of the rike
that in the feld felle.
Hou ferd the wreches thenne?
The devel I them bikenne
that ragged sit in helle.

In my transcript of the Cambridge MS. I had written _wages_ in the third line, but, thinking it might be an error of my own, I ventured to change it to _nages_, in conformity with the readings of the other MSS. I have no doubt that _nages_, the French _nages_ (see before, p. 283, l. 156, and the note), the Latin _nates_, is the right word. The other reading of the line was perhaps substituted by some one who did not understand the word.

_P._ 298, _l._ 380, _For Scottes, etc._--Robert of Brunne agrees with the present text, in this song. In the Fairfax and Arundel MSS. it stands thus:--

(F.) For skiterande Skottes
Tell I for sottes,
of wrenches unwarre.
Hem to wrothere hele
Dintes to dele
driven to Dunbarre.

(A.) Skiterende Scottes
I telle for sottes,
and wreches unwar.
Mikel unsele
Dintes to dele
them drof to Dunbar.

_P._ 300, _l._ 417, _Albanak_, the son of Brute, who was said to have first peopled Scotland, and given it the name of Albania.

_P._ 303, _l._ 466, _For boule, etc._--Robert of Brunne, like the Museum MSS., gives only the first six lines of this fragment.

---- _l._ 471, _hise tabard es tome.--Toom tabard_ (empty tabard) was a nickname given by the Scots to their King, John Baliol, on account of his little wit. In like manner, we still vulgarly call people who possess very little sense, _empty bottles_.

_P._ 304, _l._ 484, _eces;_ another form of _assez_.

---- _l._ 486, _Henri de Perci aid Galwei._--Henry de Percy, nephew of Warenne, was made keeper of the county of Galloway and the sheriffdom of Ayr.

_P._ 305, _l._ 504, _le eveske de Duram._--The famous Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, who, at the head of his knights, attended Edward in all his invasions of Scotland, and commanded one division of the army at the battle of Falkirk.

---- _l._ 514, _Kambynoy._--Robert of Brunne translates this passage as follows:--

Cambinhoy
Beres him coy,
that fendes whelp,
Ther with craft
He has tham raft,
it may not help.
The Trulle the
Drenge on se,
thei lenge the fendes tueye,
The hold tham fer,
And dar no ner
than Orkeneye.
Andrew is wroth,
The wax him loth,
for ther pride.
He is tham fro,
Now salle thei go,
schame to betide.
Thou scabbed Scotte,
Thi neck, thi hotte,
the develle it breke,
It salle be hard
To here Edward
ageyn the speke.
He salle the ken
Our lond to bren,
and werre begynne
Thou getes no thing,
Bot thi rivelyng
to hang therinne.
The sete of the Scone
Is driven over done,
to London led;
I hard wele telle,
That bagelle and belle
be filchid and fled.

_P._ 306, _l._ 521, _Ou il est mort | al mouster._--The Monastery of Hexham, which the Scots had burnt, was dedicated to their patron Saint, St. Andrew. Hemingford remarks, in a similar manner, the impiety of the Scots in burning the church of their patron. This writer, in many parts of his Chronicle, seems to paraphrase and enlarge upon the narrative of Peter Langtoft.

_P._ 307, _l._ 550, _Deus! cum Merlins._--The Cambridge MS. has _Teus_, with a great T., by an error of the illuminator. Robert of Brunne, in translating this part of the Chronicle, quotes the original author, Peter Langtoft, as his authority:--

Nou tels Pers, on his maners, a grete selcouth,
He takis witnes, that it soth es, of Merlyn mouth, etc.

The MS. from which Hearne printed contained a marginal note, “De unione Scotiæ et Angliæ secundum dicta Petri et Bridlingtone,” meaning that Bridlington had something similar in his prophecies. Hearne, not aware that it is Peter Langtoft to whom the writer refers, alters it to Petri de Bridlington; although, if he had referred to Bale, he would have found that Bridlington’s name was John, and not Peter.

_P._ 309, _l._ 582, _Jon e Thomas ... Cuthbert._--John of Beverley, Thomas of Canterbury, and Cuthbert of Durham. These three saints are elsewhere spoken of in Peter Langtoft as Edward’s especial patrons and aiders.

_P._ 310, _l._ 607, _Des biens de seint eglise._--See, on this transaction, Matthew of Westminster, p. 428, and Hemingford, p. 107.

_P._ 311. I suspect that the lines here inclosed in brackets, as not found in the Cambridge MS., were missed by myself in transcribing.

---- _l._ 613, _disime dener._--Robert of Brunne says the twelfth penny.

_P._ 315, _l._ 683, _jeo crei._--The manner in which the writer here speaks, as well as other expressions in the course of the poem, seem to show that he wrote down the events as they happened.

_P._ 316, _l._ 701, _le Sire de Canturbir._--Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1294 to 1313.

_P._ 317, _l._ 709, _Li sire de Nichole._--Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, who died in the November of 1299.

---- _l._ 714, _L’elyt de Everwyke._--Henry de Newark, who succeeded to the Archbishopric in 1297, and died in 1299.

_P._ 318, _l._ 720. These English verses are only found in the Cambridge MS.

_P._ 320, _l._ 19, _Pur treys souz, &c._--Robert of Brunne translates this--

Thei profere a man to bete, for tuo schilynges or thre,
With piked staves grete beten salle he be.

We learn from this writer that it was the King who gave them the name of _Trailebastons_.

_P._ 321, _l._ 43, _Sire Jon de Meneteft._--He is said to have been incited by his personal hatred of Wallace to seek out and deliver the Scottish Chieftain to his enemies. Robert de Brunne adds something to his original in this place:--

Sir Jon of Menetest sewed William so nehi,
He tok him whan he wend lest, on nyght his leman bi.
That was thorght treson of Jak Schort his man,
He was the encheson that Sir Jon so him nam.
Jak brother had he slayn, the Waleis that is said,
The more Jak was fayn to do William that braid.
Selcouthly he endis the man that is fals,
If he trest on his frendes, thei begile him als
Begiled is William, taken is and bondon.
To Inglond with him thei cam, and led him unto London.

We may take this occasion of pointing out the impropriety of quoting Robert de Brunne as Peter Langtoft. Mr. Tytler quotes this story of Jack Short upon Langtoft’s authority, which involves two serious errors, first, making Langtoft say what he did not say, and, secondly, giving the story on better authority than that on which it really rests, for, in this respect, Robert de Brunne is certainly inferior to Langtoft.

_P._ 323, _l._ 67, _And tus, etc._--Robert of Brunne has six lines of this fragment more than in the French MSS.

It is not to drede,
Traytour salle spede,
als he is worthi,
His lif salle he tyne,
And die thorgh pyne,
withouten merci.
Thus may men here,
A ladde for to lere
to biggen in pays.
It fallis in his iȝe,
That hewes over hie,
with the Walays.

_P._ 326, _l._ 66, _nu._--In the MS. it is written _n^ou_. Perhaps the _o_ was added by somebody who thought the orthography should be _nou_.

_P._ 327, _l._ 78, _serven the chapele._--This last word, which answers to capella in the similar passage in the Song at the end of these notes (p. 401, l. 21), means here, perhaps, a _wardrobe_.

_P._ 329, _l._ 126, _amis._--This word is added in the MS. by a later hand than that which wrote the other part.

_P._ 336, _l._ 285, _turmentours that comen from clerkes plei._--Men who have performed the part of devils, or tormentors, in the miracle plays, which were performed by the clerks.

_P._ 338, _l._ 330, _Theih pleien wid the hinges silver, and breden wod for wele._--They use the king’s silver for their own pleasures, and produce wood, or tallies, instead of contributing to the prosperity of the people.

_P._ 341, _l._ 392, _a derthe._--_l._ 403, _eft wele i-nouh._--_P._ 342, _l._ 409, _another sorwe._--_l._ 416, _another derthe of corn._--Our poem was probably composed in 1321. During the preceding years, the kingdom had been visited repeatedly by dearth and famine. Holinshed remarks in 1316, a great dearth and famine, insomuch that a quarter of wheat sold for forty shillings, and at the same time a murrain among the cattle; in 1317, a “pitiful famine” with a “sore mortalitie of people;” the year 1318 seems to have been free from these visitations, and may have been that in which, according to the poem, there was “eft wele i-nouh;” in 1319, again, a great murrain of cattle; and in the latter end of the following year and in 1321, broke out the “great variaunce betwixt the lords and the Spensers,” which was the cause of so much bloodshed, and which seems to be the “strif” (_l._ 423) under which the poet represents the people as then labouring.

_P._ 342, _l._ 418, _afingred._--For other instances of the use of this form, see a note on “The Tale of the Basyn and the Frere and the Boy.” (Pickering, 1836.)

_P._ 344, _l._ 457, _paunter._--The true meaning of this word seems to be a _trap_, or _snare_. An English prose treatise of counsel for hermits, probably by Hampole (MS. Trin. Coll. Cant. B. 15, 17, of the reign of Edward III.), speaking of the snares laid by the devil to deceive people, observes, “This _panter_ leyeth owre enemy to taken us with, whan we bigynne to haten wikkednesse, and turne us to goodnesse.”

_P._ 345.--This poem is defective at the end, by the loss of the remainder of the MS., which is imperfect. The following curious Song, which was given me by Mr. Halliwell, bears a remarkable resemblance in some parts to the English poem of the Auchinleck MS. It is taken from a MS. in the University Library, Cambridge, Ee. VI. 29, of the beginning of the fifteenth century, though most, if not all, the articles it contains are compositions of a much earlier date.

Ecce dolet Anglia luctibus imbuta!
Gens tremit tristitia, sordibus polluta;
Necat pestilentia viros atque bruta.
Cur? quia flagitia regnant resoluta.
Heu! jam totus vertitur mundus in malignum.
Inter gentes quæritur ubi cor benignum.
Christus non recolitur, mortuus per lignum;
Ergo plebs perimitur in vindictæ signum.
Pax et patientia penitus orbantur;
Amor et justitia domi non morantur;
Errores et vitia gentes amplexantur;
Patrum per malitia parvuli necantur.
Pastorum pigritia greges disperguntur;
Insontes astutia mercantum falluntur;
Fraus et avaritia sorores junguntur;
Divitum nequitia pauperes plectuntur.
Simonia colitur, Simon Magus vivit;
Æquitas opprimitur, veritas abivit;
Christi grex dispergitur, lupus insanivit;
Pestisque diffunditur, agnos deglutivit.
Favor non scientia permovet rectores;
Intrudit potentia servos ob labores,
Et regum clementia quosdam per favores;
Æs et amicitia juvant pervisores.
Fortes Christi milites modo recesserunt;
Sathanæ satellites templum subverterunt;
Laceras et debiles oves prodiderunt;
Cuculi degeneres nisis successerunt.
Patres quondam nobiles pestes fugarunt,
Et in fide stabiles languidos sanarunt;
Vita venerabiles signis coruscarunt;
Actus per laudabiles Christo militarunt.
Tales erunt vestibus asperis vestiti;
Ut moderni mollibus raro sunt potiti.
Hii præclaris moribus erant insigniti;
Juvenes a sordibus sacris eruditi.
Heu! nunc mercenarii, nec veri pastores,
Rectores, vicarii, mutaverunt mores;
Ambitu denarii subeunt labores;
Tales operarii merentur mœrores:
Isti pro ciliciis utuntur pellura;
Farciunt deliciis ventres tota cura;
Dant post[ea] spurcitiis se sine mensura;
Suffulti divitiis vivunt contra jura.
Dum capella tegitur nobili vestura,
Sponsa Christi rapitur nudata tectura;
Vinea destruitur porcorum ursura,
Et vitis evellitur, carens jam cultura.
Sacerdotes Domini sunt incontinentes;
Actus suo nomini non sunt respondentes;
Sacra dantes homini forent et docentes;
Sui mores ordini non sunt congruentes.
Ista super æthera sanguine scribantur,
Ut patenti littera sæculis legantur;
Ignibus cum vetera peccata purgantur,
Sua ferant onera jam qui dominantur.
En! amor et caritas regnis refrigescunt;
Livor et severitas gentibus ardescunt;
Cleri plebis veritas et fides tepescunt;
Hinc regni nobilitas et fama quiescunt.
Feminæ fragilitas omni caret laude;
Mercantum subtilitas versatur in fraude;
Et fratrum dolositas jungit caput caudæ.
Homo, si jam veritas te gubernat, gaude!
_Explicit._

_P._ 14. SONG ON THE TIMES.--Giraldus Cambrensis has inserted a copy of this Song in the Speculum Ecclesiæ, MS. Cotton. Tiberius, B. XIII. fol. 126, v^o, and attributes it to the famous Golias, which is commonly supposed to be only a fictitious name for Walter Mapes. This takes away all doubt as to its age, and the explanations given by Flacius Illyricus may be right. There is another copy in a Cottonian MS. of the thirteenth century, Vespas. A. XIX. fol. 59, r^o, where it is entitled _De veneranda justitia Romanæ curiæ_. In Giraldus, the song commences with the 13th line, _Roma mundi caput est_, &c. In the other Cotton. MS. it begins as in our text. The variations afforded by these two MSS. are as follow:--_P._ 14, _l._ 1, _Romanæ reb._, C.--6, _profluit_, C.--9, the first _est_ is omitted in C.--10, _Tegunt picem_, C.--_P._ 15, _l._ 12, _ramus in sap._, C.--15, _trahit enim_, G. and C.--17, _res et sing._, C.--21, _In hoc consistorio_, G. and C.--27, _petunt quando petis_, G. and C.--28, _eadem et metis_, C.--_P._ 16. The first 16 lines in this page are omitted in Giraldus.--_l._ 5, _nummus_, C.--6, _rot. placet, totum pl._, C.--7, _ita pl. ... Romanos_, C.--10, _obiceret_, C.--11, _Et sanc._, C.--12, _transeunt_, C.--13, _venit parca_, C.--15, _pro munere_, C.--_P._ 17, _l._ 1, _et ... sit_, G. and C. _animanti_, C.--2, _Respondet hæc tibia_, G. and C.--6, _li mort_, C.--7, G. and C. have _Porta_ at the beginning of this line, and _Papa_ in the next. G. omits the words _chartula quærit_: it ought to be observed that in this MS. the song is written as prose, so that such omissions are easily explained.--8, G. and C. omit the words cursor quærit.--9, _omnis quærit_, G. _si des si quid uni_, G. and C.--10, _Totum mare salsum est, tota_, G. and C. except that the former has _salseum_ for _salsum est_: see another example of this expression in the present volume, p. 228, _l._ 19.--11, _Des ... des ... addas_, G.--_l._ 12, the extract in Giraldus ends here.--_P._ 18, _l._ 4, _totum impl._, C.--6, _habet Pluto_, C.--9, _dant divitibus_, C.

_P._ 44, _l._ 3 of Song against the Bishops, _read_ fungar vice cotis, “I will perform the part of a whetstone.”

_P._ 282, _l._ 5 of translation, _for_ Edward, _read_ Edmund.

INDEX.

Abel, Sir John, 219.

Acre, 132, 288, 371, 393.

_afingred_, 400.

Albanac, 300, 395.

Alfred’s Proverbs, extract from, 366.

Almaigne, Richard, King of, 69, 281, 361.

_almucium_, 355.

Alnwick, 173, 376.

Alphonso, brother to Louis IX., 36, 38.

Alphonso VIII., 367.

Amundisham, Walter, 304.

Angiers, 37.

Angus: _see_ Umfraville.

d’Anjou, Comte, 66.

Arabia, 28, 352.

Aristotle, 245, 385.

Arthur, King, 58, 355.

Artois, Comte, 190.

Athol, Earl of, 223, 381.

_averia_, 383.

_avowerie_, 378.

Badlesmere, Bartholomew de, 263, 389.

Bailiffs, conduct of, t. Edward I., 230.

Baliol: _see_ John.

Bannockburn, Song on the battle of, 261.

Barons, objects of the confederate, t. Hen. III., 98.

Bartholomeus, 263.

Baston, Robert, 375, 380, 388.

Battle abbey, 74, 362.

Beaucaire, 38.

Beck, Anthony, bishop of Durham, 305, 396.

Belflour, 233, 383.

Bellofago, Roger de, 383.

Belregard, wood of, 232, 234, 383.

Berkstead, Simon, Bishop of Chichester, 81, 362.

Bertram, 173.

Berwick-on-Tweed, 284, 285, 287, 289, 304.

Berwick, John, 315.

Besile, Sir Matthew or Macy de, 62, 358.

Beverley Abbey, 139, 372.

Bigot, Sir Hugh, 70, 361.

Bigot, Roger, 67, 360.

Bishops of Norwich, Bath, and Winchester, Song on the, 6.
Notes, 347.

Bishops, Song against, t. Hen. III., 44.

Black Monks, order of, 141, 372.

Bohun, Humphrey, the younger, 294.

Bois, Thomas de, 219.

Born, Bertrand de, 3.

Boulogne, Comte of, 191.

Boniface VIII. Pope, 193, 379.

Bouaing, 2.

Brennius, 58, 355.

Broinsius, 58.

Bruce, Sir Robert, (King of Scotland,) 215, 223, 285.
Called the “summer King,” 380.

Bruges, 188, 379.

Burdon, William, Prior of Blythe, 374.

_burel_, 381.

Burstwick on Humber, 318.

Bury St. Edmund’s, Parliament at, 310.

Cadoing, 5, 347.

Caen, 5, 347.

Cambini undæ, 181.

Cambinoy, 305, 396.

Cambrai, 282, 288, 318.

Camville, Nichola, 352.

Canons, order of, 140, 372.
secular, 142, 372.

_capucium_, 355.

Carcasson, 40.

Carthusian monks, 373.

Carrick, Earl of, 178, 377.

Cato tertius, 10, 349.

Celestine, Pope, 274, 390.

_chapele_, 399.

Charlemagne, 58, 355.

Charles of France, 223: _see_ Sicily.

Charter of the Peace with England, 360.

Chester, Ranulph Earl of, 24, 351.

Chesterfield, 370.

Cistercians, 373.

Clement V. Pope, 243, 385.

Clifford, Roger, 60, 357.

Comyn, 178, 377.

Consistory Courts, Song on the, t. Edw. I., 155.

Constantine, 58, 355.

Conyng, Peter, 188, 191, 379.

Corbridge, 287, 376.

Corineus, 292, 393.

Cornwall, Sir Richard, 284, 392.

Courtrai, battle of, 187.

Cressingham, Hugh, 304.

Cyprus, 288.

David, Saint, 57.

Dayvile, Sir John, 60, 357.

Despencer, Hugh le, 126, 269, 315, 368, 393.

Devel, Sir Ralph, 191.

Douglas, William, 285, 392.

Dover, 71, 276, 391.

Dunbar, battle of, 166, 213, 374.

Dunbar, 287, 288, 289: _see_ March.

Durham, Bishop of, 305, 396.

Earls, rights of, 97.

Edward, Prince, (Edward I.), 60, 64, 68, 93, 125, 370.

Edward I., Latin poem in praise of, 128.
Songs of his reign, 128-240.
Laments on his death, 241, 246.
His name of “Long-shanks,” 382.

Edward, Prince of Wales, (Edward II.), 194, 216.

Edward II., Songs of his reign, 241-272, 323-345.

Egueblanche, Peter de, Bishop of Hereford, 61, 357.

Ely, isle of, 130, 370.

_encennia_, 382.

Eustace, Bishop of Ely, 12, 350.

Eutherium nemus, 181.

Evesham, battle of, 125, 368.

Falkirk, battle of, 176, 376.

Famines in the reign of Edw. II., 338, 399.

Flanders, Count of, 168.

Flemish insurrection in 1302, Song on, 187.
Notes, 378.

_focaria_, 33, 352.

Fraser, Richard, 285, 392.

Fraser, Sir Simon, Song on his execution, 212.
Notes, 380.

Friars Minors, Order of, 144, 373.

Frollo, 58.
Account of him, 355.

_fustum_, 377.

Galloway, 304.

Galvaing, 4.

Gaveston, Peter, 253.
Songs on his death, 258.
Notes, 388.

Gifford, Sir John, 59, 356.

Glanville, Gilbert, Bishop of Rochester, 13, 350.

Glasgow, Bishop of, 214.

Gloucester, 94, 362.

Gloucester, Earl of, 65, 122, 126, 263, 267, 360, 368, 370, 389.

_goliard_, meaning of, 369.

Golias, 349, 352, 402.

Graham, Sir Patrick, 294.

Grandison, Sir Otho, 288, 393.

Gray, Sir John, 62, 358.

Gray, John, Bishop of Norwich, 348, 349.

Grey Monks, order of, 143, 373.

Groing, 4.

Guienne, 4.

_halymote_, 374.

Hemingford, the chronicler, paraphrases Peter Langtoft, 397.

Henry III. Songs of his reign, 19-127.

Hexham, 287, 289, 301, 376, 397.

_hoblurs_, 380.

Hospitallers, 140, 370.

Hoyland, Robert de, 271, 390.

Husbandman, Song of the, t. Edward I., 149.
Notes, 374.

James I., King of Aragon, 36, 37, 39, 41.

Joceline, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 10, 349.

John, King, Songs of his reign, 1-18.
Styled Jupiter, 350.

John Baliol, King of Scotland, 164, 274, 275, 285, 290, 298, 302.
Verses on his deposition, 180.
Nicknamed _Toom tabard_, 395.

Jose, Sir John, 217.

Judges, Song on the venality of, t. Edward I., 224.
Notes, 382.

Kambynoy, 305, 396.

Kingly character, popular doctrine of, 363.

Kirkencliff, battle of, 212, 216, 381.

Knoville, William, 233, 283.

Ladies, Song on the, t. Edw. I., 153.

Lancaster, Thomas Earl of, office of, 268, 389, 390.

Lancaster, Edmond Earl of, 282.

Lanercost, 287, 289.

Langley, Sir John, 62, 357.

Langtoft, Peter, extracts from his Chronicle, 273.
Notes, 390, &c.

Langton, Archbishop, 6, 348.

Langton, Walter de, 314.

Latimer, Sir William, 63, 358.

Leicester, Simon Earl of, _see_ Montfort.

Lewes, battle of, 68, 361.
Latin poem on, 72.

Leyburne, Sir Roger, 60, 62, 357.

Levenax (Lennox), Earl of, 171, 376.

Limoux, 37.

Lincoln, 24, 352.

Lincoln, Henry Earl of, 282, 391.

Lindsey, 319.

London, 23, 130, 276, 280, 300, 307, 320, 322, 370.
Saint Amont at, 67, 361.
bridge, 212, 213, 221, 222.
Cheap, 221.
Newgate, 218.
the Tower, 219, 221, 297, 304.

Louis the Dauphin, 4, 23, 351.

Louis IX., 36, 42, 63, 64.

Lundi, Richard, 171, 376.

_lyard_, 361.

Lyndsay, Sir John, 217.

Maine, Sir John of, 2.

Mainerus, the scribe of Canterbury, his account of himself and his
family, 354.

_male rage_, 391.

Mapes, Walter, 14, 349, 350, 373, 402.

Mar, Earl of, 287.

March, Patrick Earl of, 285, 287, 289, 392.

Margaret, Queen, 178, 377.

Martin, Sir William, 233, 383.

Mauger Bishop of Worcester, 12, 350.

Mauleon, Savary de, 1, 2, 3, 347.

Melors, romance of, 356.

Menteith, Earl of, 387.

Menteith, Sir John, 321, 398.

Merlin, 57, 64, 307, 309.

Montfort, Guy, 126, 368.

Montfort, Sir Henry, 126, 368.

Montfort, Sir Hugh, 70.

Montfort, Sir Peter, 60.

Montfort, Simon, 61, 66, 70, 75-91, 123.
The Lament of, 125, 362, 368.

Montpellier, 40.

Mountain, Old Man of the, 132, 371.

Mountsorrell, 24, 351.

Morham, _see_ Norham.

Morley, 173.

Multon, Sir Thomas, 217, 381.

_nages_, 391, 395.

Nego, the Song of, t. Edward I., 210.

Newark, Henry, Archbishop elect of York, 317, 398.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, 283.

Newminster, 174.

Norfolk, 59.

Norfolk, Roger Bigod, Earl of, 123, 364.

Norham, Sir Hubert, 218, 381.

Northampton, 74, 361.

Northumberland, 173, 292.

Nottingham, 24, 352.

d’Orange, Guillaume, 347.

Order of Fair-Ease, Song of the, 137.
Notes, 371.

Ovid, 180.

Oxford, 83.

Paris, 67, 276, 277, 280.

Parliament at St. Edmund’s Bury, 310.

_paunter_, 400.

Percy, Henry, 304.

Philippe-Auguste, King, 4.

Philip, King, 190, 193, 274, 281, 310, 315.

Poitiers, 243, 384.

Poitou, 4.

Political Proverbs, 385-388.

Preachers, Order of, 146, 373.

Red Hall, at Berwick, 284, 392.

Retinues, Song on great, t. Edward I., 237.
Notes, 385.

_ribald_, meaning of, 369.

Richard I., King, 4, 58, 128, 347, 355.

Rion, 278.

Rishanger, William, 121, 368.

_rivelins_, 391.

Robert, Richard, Gilbert, and Geoffrey, four brothers, 49.

Robert, Bishop of Salisbury, 13, 350.

Robertsbridge, 75, 362.

Rolls, containing songs and poems, 356.

Rome, 15-18, 324;
pope of, 43, 311.

Ros, Robert de, 283, 391.

Ross, Earl of, 287.

de Rovenac, Bertrand, 36.

de Rupibus, Peter, Bishop of Winchester, 10, 349.

_Sabina_, 28, 352.

St. Andrew’s, Bishop of, 214, 299.

St. Denis, 68.

de St. Paul, Sir Jacques, 189.

St. Thomas of Canterbury, 125, 268, 390.

Sandwich, Sir Ralph, 219, 381.

Savoy, Sir Amy de, 288.

Scholastic studies, Song against, t. Edward I., 206.
Notes, 380.

Scone, abbot of, 214:
royal seat of, 307.

Scottish wars, Song on, t. Edward I., 160.
Notes, 374.

Sempringham abbey, 138, 371.

Sheriffs, conduct of, t. Edward I., 228.

Short, Jack, 398.

Sicily, Charles King of, 131, 370.

Silence, the Order of, 144, 373.

Simony, Song on, t. Edward II., 323.

Somervile, 173.

Somnours, 157.

Spigurnel, Henry, 233, 383.

Stirling, 217, 262, 318, 376.

Surrey, Earl of: _see_ Warenne.

Sutton, Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln, 317, 398.

Syria, 40.

Syward, Sir Richard, 290, 291, 293.

Tailors, Song on the, t. Hen. III., 51.

Tallies of the King’s purveyors, 184, 377, 399.

Thouars, 1.

Tiebald, 4.

Tindale, 287.

Touraine, 4.

Toulouse, Comte de, 38.

Tours, 37.

_tprot Scot_, 223, 381.

Traillebaston, Song of, t. Edward I., 231.
Notes, 283.
Langtoft’s account of, 319, 398.

Trent, the river, 169, 376.

Troy, 180.

_trutannus_, whence _truant_, 376.

_tu-brugge_, 381.

Tunis, 131, 370.

Turbevile, Thomas, 278-281, 391.

_turmentours_, in the miracle plays, 399.

_Tyeis_, meaning of the word, 355.

Umfraville, Gilbert, 178, 285, 377, 392.

de Valence, Sir Aymer, 216, 387.

Vescy, Sir William de, 173, 282, 391.

Virgil, and legends of him, 245, 385, 388.

_viro_, its meaning, 371.

Wallace, William, 170, 173, 174, 376.
Execution of, 213, 222, 321, 380, 398.

Wallingford, honour of, 69, 361.

Wanton, Simon de, Bishop of Norwich, 62, 357.

Warenne, John Earl of, 59, 70, 168, 289, 304, 319, 356, 361, 376.

Warwick, Earl of, 289, 393.

Welsh, Song of the, t. Hen. III., 54.
Their turbulence, 273.

Westminster, 253.
Abbey, 311.

White Monks, 373.

Winchelsea, Archbishop, 311, 316, 398.

Winchester, Earl of, 65, 360.

Windsor, 69, 361.

Wise-men, legend of the Four, 385-388.

Wool, custom on, 377.

Wyta, Thomas de, 132, 371.

THE END.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected after careful
comparison with similar occurrences within the text and consultation
of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained (for example,
participater; agreable; Eduardus; indited).

In the Table of Contents:--
Pg xviii: a final entry ‘INDEX 403’ has been added.

In the songs:--
Pg 89: line number ‘250’ replaced by ‘350’.
Pg 271: ‘dolose desiandatur’ replaced by ‘dolose defiandatur’.

In the translations:--
Pg 78: ‘pride and and cruelty’ replaced by ‘pride and cruelty’.
Pg 131: ‘with the Sicilans’ replaced by ‘with the Sicilians’.
Pg 133: ‘is of no but right’ (a word is missing) replaced by
‘is of no use; but right’.
Pg 140: ‘the brethen must’ replaced by ‘the brethren must’.
Pg 156: ‘all who sits there’ replaced by ‘all who sit there’.
Pg 158: ‘then so fall’ replaced by ‘than so fall’.
Pg 215: ‘come no nothing’ replaced by ‘come to nothing’.

In the abstracts and glossaries:--
Pg 160: ‘have apparenty been’ replaced by ‘have apparently been’.
Pg 336: ‘292. _mot-hall_’ replaced by ‘292. _mot-halle_’.
Pg 344: ‘wrong.--868’ replaced by ‘wrong.--468’.

In the Notes:--
Pg 349: ‘_P._ 1, _l._ 14’ replaced by ‘_P._ 8, _l._ 14’.
Pg 349: ‘---- 15’ replaced by ‘---- _l._ 15’.
Pg 351: ‘totum pl.,--7’ replaced by ‘totum pl., Fl.--7’ (the
missing source reference assumed to be Fl.).
Pg 371: ‘wintered at Trapeni’ replaced by ‘wintered at Trapani’.
Pg 376: ‘_P._ 169,’ replaced by ‘_P._ 169, _l._ 1,’ (missing
line number inserted).
Pg 376: ‘---- _l._ 186,’ replaced by ‘_P._ 174, _l._ 186,’ (missing
page number inserted).
Pg 380: ‘The MS. has ̃p̃pe’. The original text has one large tilde
spanning ‘pp’.
Pg 389: ‘The MS. has _far?_’. The original text has an unusual
symbol, similar to but not a ?. Unicode code points for these may
come in the future from the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI).

In the Index:--
Robert: ‘Geffrey’ replaced by ‘Geoffrey’,
tu-brigge: replaced by ‘tu-brugge’.
Entries Canons and London had sub-entries starting with ----. These
subentries have been indented by two spaces instead, for consistency.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Political Songs of England, by Thomas Wright