[Footnote 131: Extract from the account of the proceedings at Arthur's coronation given by Layamon, in his translation of Wace, executed about 1180. Madden's "Layamon," 1847, II. p. 625 et passim: Tha the king igeten hafde And al his mon-weorede, Tha bugen ut of burhge Theines swithe balde. Alle tha kinges, And heore here-thringes. Alle tha biscopes, And alle tha clærckes, All the eorles, And alle tha beornes. Alle the theines, Alle the sweines, Feire iscrudde, Helde geond felde. Summe heo gunnen æruen, Summe heo gunnen urnen, Summe heo gunnen lepen, Summe heo gunnen sceoten, Summe heo wræstleden And wither-gome makeden, Summe heo on uelde Pleouweden under scelde, Summe heo driven balles Wide geond tha feldes. Monianes kunnes gomen Ther heo gunnen driuen. And wha swa mihte iwinne Wurthscipe of his gomene, Hine me ladde mid songe At foren than leod kinge; And the king, for his gomene, Gaf him geven gode. Alle tha quene The icumen weoren there. And alle tha lafdies, Leoneden geond walles. To bihalden the dugethen. And that folc plæie. This ilæste threo dæges, Swulc gomes and swulc plæges, Tha, at than veorthe dæie The king gon to spekene And agæf his goden cnihten All heore rihten; He gef seolver, he gæf gold, He gef hors, he gef lond, Castles, and clœthes eke; His monnen he iquende.] [Footnote 132: After 1297.] [Footnote 133: About 1312.] [Footnote 134: About 1349.] [Footnote 135: Warton, II. 36.] [Footnote 136: Time of Henry III., "Reliquiae Antiquæ," edited by Messrs. Wright and Halliwell, I. 102.] [Footnote 137: About 1278. Warton, I. 28.] [Footnote 138: Ibid., I. 31.] [Footnote 139: Ibid. I. 30.] [Footnote 140: "Poem of the Owl and Nightingale," who dispute as to which has the finest voice.] [Footnote 141: Letter of Peter of Blois.] [Footnote 142: William of Malmesbury.] [Footnote 143: At the installation feast of George Nevill, Archbishop of York, the brother of Guy of Warwick, there were consumed 104 oxen and 6 wild bulls, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, as many hogs, 2000 swine, 500 stags, bucks, and does, 204 kids, 22,802 wild or tame fowl, 300 quarters of corn, 300 tuns of ale, 100 of wine, a pipe of hypocras, 12 porpoises and seals.] [Footnote 144: These prodigalities and refinements grew to excess under his grandson Richard II.] [Footnote 145: Warton, I. 156.] [Footnote 146: Warton, I. 176, spelling modernized.] [Footnote 147: Warton, I. 123: "In Fraunce these rhymes were wroht, Every Englyshe ne knew it not."] [Footnote 148: See Lingard's "History," II. 55, note 4.--Tr.] [Footnote 149: Domesday Book. Froude's "History England", 1858, 1. 13: "Through all these arrangements a single aim is visible, that every man in England should have his definite place and definite duty assigned to him, and that no human being should be at liberty to lead at his own pleasure an unaccountable existence. The discipline of an army was transferred to the details of social life."] [Footnote 150: Domesday Book, "tenants-in-chief."]