_b_ 32. _Sir Philip._ Philip de Valois, Philip VI of France (1293-1350). His son, John Duke of Normandy (1319-64), who succeeded him in 1350, is of good memory as a lover of fine books. Two are mentioned in the notes to XI _a_ 25 ff. and XI _b_ 234. A splendid copy of the _Miracles de Notre Dame_, preserved until recently in the Seminary Library at Soissons, seems also to have been captured with his baggage at Poitiers, for it was bought back from the English by King Charles V. Another famous book produced by his command was the translation of Livy by Bersuire, with magnificent illuminations. The spirit of the collector was not damped by his captivity in England from 1356-60, for his account books show that he continued to employ binders and miniaturists, to encourage original composition, and to buy books, especially books of romance. See _Notes et Documents relatifs à Jean, Roi de France_, &c., ed. by Henry of Orleans, Duc d'Aumale (Philobiblon Soc., London 1855-6). _b_ 40. _þe Cardinales._ Pope Clement VI had sent cardinals Annibale Ceccano bishop of Frascati, and Etienne Aubert, who became Pope Innocent VI in 1352, to arrange a peace between France and England. But the English were suspicious of the Papal court at Avignon, and accused the cardinals of favouring the French cause. _b_ 82. _Sir Iohn de Viene._ Jean de Vienne, seigneur de Pagny (d. 1351), a famous captain in the French wars. _c_ 5 f. 'They (friends) are so slippery when put to the test, so eager to have <for themselves>, and so unwilling to give up <to others>.' _c_ 14. _And_, 'if'. _c_ 47. King John of France was captured at Poitiers in 1356 and held in England as a prisoner until the Treaty of Bretigny in 1360. See note to XIV _b_ 32. _c_ 54. Note the omission of the relative: 'which recked not a cleat for all France', and cp. ll. 43-4, XIII _a_ 36 (note). _c_ 59. _his helm_, 'its helm'—the bar by which the rudder was moved. _c_ 61. 'The King sailed and rowed aright'; on _him_, see note to XV _g_ 24. _c_ 83. _An ympe_: Richard II. _c_ 90. _sarri_: not in the dictionaries in this sense, is probably OFr. _serré_, _sarré_, in the developed meaning 'active', 'vigorous', seen in the adv. _sarréement_. _c_ 103-4. 'If we are disloyal and inactive, so that what is rarely seen is straightway forgotten.' _c_ 108. 'Who was the fountain of all courage.' _c_ 111. _los_, 'fame'. _d_ 1. SCHEP: here means 'shepherd', 'pastor', a name taken by Ball as appropriate to a priest. _Seynte Marie prest of Ȝork_, 'priest of St. Mary's of York' (cp. note to I 44), a great Benedictine abbey founded soon after the Conquest; see Dugdale, _Monasticon Anglicanum_, vol. iii, pp. 529 ff. _Marie_ does not take the _s_ inflexion, because it has already the Latin genitive form, cp. _Mary-ȝet_ X 163. _d_ 2. _Iohan Nameles_, 'John Nobody', for _nameless_ has the sense 'obscure', 'lowly'.