Footnote 40: Guiffrey, i. pp. 226, 229, ii. p. 127. Footnote 41: _Romania_, xiv. 1885, p. 1. Footnote 42: De Jong and De Goeje, _Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibl. Acad. Lugd. Bat._, iii. p. 342; Brockelmann, _Geschichte der Arabischen Literatur_, i. p. 459. Footnote 43: Salv. de Renzi, _Collectio Salernitana_, iii. 1854, p. 69, “Incipit liber philosophorum moralium .... quem transtulit de Greco in Latinum Mag. Johannes de Procida.” The Latin text is quoted in the notes here from Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 16,906, the French text from Royal MS. 19 B iv., both of the 15th century. Footnote 44: P. Paris, _Les MSS. françois de la Bibl. du Roi_, v. p. 1. Footnote 45: “Enprynted by me William Caxton at Westmestre the yere of our lord m.cccc.lxxvii.” A second edition appeared in 1480 (?), and a third, by W. de Worde, in 1528. Footnote 46: Thus, the translator says in his preface, “And at the last [I] concluded in my self to translate it in to thenglyssh tong, wiche in my jugement was not before,” and Caxton adds in the colophon, “Certaynly I had seen none in englissh til that tyme.” Footnote 47: No doubt there is some rhetorical exaggeration in the expression “othir straunge regions, londes and contrees” (p. 2, _cf._ p. xxx below); at any rate, there is no evidence that Fastolf served anywhere but in France, both north and south, and in Ireland. Footnote 48: In the colophon to the other work he is styled son-in-law, but the meaning is the same. Footnote 49: There is a good account of him in the _Dict. of National Biography_, vol. xviii. See also G. Poulett Scrope, _Hist. of Castle Combe_, 1852, ch. vii. p. 169. Besides other authorities given in the first-named work, some further particulars and corrections are supplied in Wylie’s _Hist. of England under Henry IV_., 1884–1898, and in Sir J. H. Ramsay’s _Lancaster and York_, 1892. Footnote 50: Wylie, iii. p. 168. Footnote 51: _Ibid._ Footnote 52: _Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 282. Footnote 53: Wylie, iv. p. 74. Footnote 54: Wylie, iv. p. 86. Footnote 55: The warrant for his pay, 18th June, is in Rymer’s _Fœdera_, ed. 1740, iv. pt. ii. p. 130. Footnote 56: According to the _Boke of Noblesse_ (see below, p. xliii.), p. 15, “the seyd erle made Ser John Fastolfe, chevaler, his lieutenaunt with m^lv^c soudeours.” Footnote 57: Rymer, iv. pt. ii. p. 153. _Dict. Nat. Biogr._ has 1417–18. Footnote 58: The _Boke of Noblesse_, after praising him for his care in provisioning his garrisons, goes on to say (p. 68), “and that policie was one of the grete causes that the regent of Fraunce and the lordes of the kyngys grete councelle lefft hym to hafe so many castells to kepe that he ledd yerly iii^c sperys and the bowes.” The value of his foresight in this respect is then illustrated by an anecdote of what happened when the Bastille was threatened with a siege in 1420. Footnote 59: