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[Footnote 28: Note E. The range of iron bars above that glowing charcoal]

[Footnote 29: Henry's Hist. edit. 1805, vol. vii. p.. 146. ]

[Footnote 30: I wish the Prior had also informed them when Niobe was sainted.

Probably during that enlightened period when " Pan to Moses lent his

pagan horn. " L. T. ]

[Footnote 31: " Surquedy" and " outrecuidance" --insolence and presumption]

[Footnote 32: Mantelets were temporary and movable defences formed of planks,

under cover of which the assailants advanced to the attack of fortified

places of old. Pavisses were a species of large shields covering the

whole person, employed on the same occasions. ]

[Footnote 33: The bolt was the arrow peculiarly fitted to the cross-bow, as that

of the long-bow was called a shaft. Hence the English proverb--" I will

either make a shaft or bolt of it, " signifying a determination to make

one use or other of the thing spoken of. ]

[Footnote 34: The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in

bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or

diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. ]

[Footnote 35: Note F. Heraldry]

[Footnote 36: Every Gothic castle and city had, beyond the outer-walls, a

fortification composed of palisades, called the barriers, which were

often the scene of severe skirmishes, as these must necessarily be

carried before the walls themselves could be approached. Many of those

valiant feats of arms which adorn the chivalrous pages of Froissart took

place at the barriers of besieged places. ]

[Footnote 37: " Derring-do" --desperate courage. ]

[Footnote 38: The author has some idea that this passage is imitated from the

appearance of Philidaspes, before the divine Mandane, when the city of

Babylon is on fire, and he proposes to carry her from the flames. But

the theft, if there be one, would be rather too severely punished by the

penance of searching for the original passage through the interminable

volumes of the Grand Cyrus. ]

[Footnote 39: Note G. Ulrica's Death Song]

[Footnote 40: Thrall and bondsman. ]

[Footnote 41: A lawful freeman. ]

[Footnote 42: The notes upon the bugle were anciently called mots, and

are distinguished in the old treatises on hunting, not by musical

characters, but by written words. ]

[Footnote 421: Note H. Richard Coeur-de-Lion. ]

[Footnote 43: A commissary is said to have received similar consolation from a

certain Commander-in-chief, to whom he complained that a general officer

had used some such threat towards him as that in the text. ]

[Footnote 44: Borghs, or borrows, signifies pledges. Hence our word to borrow,

because we pledge ourselves to restore what is lent. ]

[Footnote 45: " Dortour", or dormitory. ]

[Footnote 46: Note I. Hedge-Priests. ]

[Footnote 47: Reginald Fitzurse, William de Tracy, Hugh de Morville, and

Richard Brito, were the gentlemen of Henry the Second's household, who,

instigated by some passionate expressions of their sovereign, slew the

celebrated Thomas-a-Becket. ]

[Footnote 48: The establishments of the Knight Templars were called Preceptories,

and the title of those who presided in the Order was Preceptor; as the

principal Knights of Saint John were termed Commanders, and their

houses Commanderies. But these terms were sometimes, it would seem, used

indiscriminately. ]

[Footnote 49: In the ordinances of the Knights of the Temple, this phrase is

repeated in a variety of forms, and occurs in almost every chapter, as

if it were the signal-word of the Order; which may account for its being

so frequently put in the Grand Master's mouth. ]

[Footnote 50: See the 13th chapter of Leviticus. ]

[Footnote 51: The edict which he quotes, is against communion with women of light

character. ]

[Footnote 53: The reader is again referred to the Rules of the Poor Military

Brotherhood of the Temple, which occur in the Works of St Bernard. L. T. ]

[Footnote 54: " Essoine" signifies excuse, and here relates to the appellant's

privilege of appearing by her champion, in excuse of her own person on

account of her sex. ]

[Footnote 55: " Capul", i. e. horse; in a more limited sense, work-horse. ]

[Footnote 56: " Destrier" --war-horse. ]

[Footnote 561: From the ballads of Robin Hood, we learn that this * celebrated

outlaw, when in disguise, sometimes assumed * the name of Locksley, from

a village where he was born, * but where situated we are not distinctly

told. ]

[Footnote 57: Note J. Castle of Coningsburgh. ]

[Footnote 58: The crowth, or crowd, was a species of violin. The rote a sort of

guitar, or rather hurdy-gurdy, the strings of which were managed by a

wheel, from which the instrument took its name. ]

[Footnote 581: Infamous. ]

[Footnote 59: The resuscitation of Athelstane has been much criticised, as too

violent a breach of probability, even for a work of such fantastic

character. It was a " tour-de-force", to which the author was compelled

to have recourse, by the vehement entreaties of his friend and printer,

who was inconsolable on the Saxon being conveyed to the tomb. ]

[Footnote 60: Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy, prefixed to Ritson's

Ancient Metrical Romances, p. clxxxvii. ]

[Footnote 61: A " Tulchan" is a calf's skin stuffed, and placed before a cow

who has lost its calf, to induce the animal to part with her milk. The

resemblance between such a Tulchan and a Bishop named to transmit

the temporalities of a benefice to some powerful patron, is easily

understood. ]

[Footnote 62: Bannatyne's Journal. ]

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