The "Treatise of Knighthood" here mentioned, may probably have resembled _The Booke of the Ordre of Chyvalrye or Knyghthode_ printed by Caxton (see p. liv.); and the "Treatise of War" may have been a version of _The Boke of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvallrye_, which Caxton also published from the _Arbre de Batailes_, &c. as before noticed in p. vi. The "Othea pistill" was certainly the same book which passes under the name of Christine de Pisan, and which was printed at Paris by Philippe Pigouchet, in 4to, under the title of "_Les cent Histoires de troye._ Lepistre de Othea deesse de prudence enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de troye, auec cent hystoires." In every page of this book there is a _Texte_ in French verse, and a _Glose_ in prose, which agrees exactly with sir John Paston's description in his catalogue (where it appears as distinct from Ebesham's "Great Book,") in this entry,--"Item, a _Book de Othea_, text and glose, in quayers." Page 15. _Matheu Gournay de comitatu Somerset._ This personage, whose name has been inserted by the second hand, was a very distinguished warrior in the French wars, and has been supposed to have been the model of the Knight in Chaucer's Canterbury {lx} Pilgrims. His epitaph at Stoke upon Hampden in Somersetshire, which has been preserved by Leland, describes him as "le noble et vaillant chivaler Maheu de Gurney, iadys seneschal de Landes et capitain du chastel Daques por nostre seignor le Roy en la duche de Guyene, qui en sa vie fu a la batail de Beaumarin, et ala apres a la siege Dalgezire sur les Sarazines, et auxi a les batailles de Lescluse, de Cressy, de Yngenesse, de Peyteres, de Nazara, Dozrey, et a plusiurs autres batailles et asseges, en les quex il gaina noblement graund los et honour per lespece de xxxxiiij et xvj ans, et morust le xxvj jour de Septembre, l'an nostre Seignor Jesu Christ Mccccvj, que de salme Dieux eit mercy. Amen." (See Records of the House of Gournay, by Daniel Gurney, esq. F.S.A. p. 681.) Page 68. _Sir John Fastolfe's victualling of the Bastille._ This anecdote is illustrated by the following passage of one of sir John's books of accompt:-- "Item, in like wise is owing to the said Fastolfe for the keeping and victualling of the Bastile of St. Anthony in Paris, as it appeareth by writing sufficient, and by the creditors of sir John Tyrel knight, late treasurer of the King's house, remaining in the exchequer of Westminster of record, the sum of xlij li. (Paston Letters, iii. 269.) * * * * * {1} THE BOKE OF NOBLESSE. [MS. REG. 18 B. XXII.] * * * * * The Boke of Noblesse, compiled to the most hyghe and myghety prince Kynge Edward the iiij^{the} for the avauncyng and preferryng the comyn publique of the Royaumes of England and of Fraunce.