“Now children of gramere scole conneþ no more Frensch þan can here lift heele ... also gentil men habbeþ now moche yleft for to teche here childern Freynsch” (R. Morris, _Specimens of Early English_, 1867, p. 339). See also the Rolls Series edition of Higden, ii. p. 161, where Trevisa’s text is taken from another MS. Footnote 89: See Chaucer’s Nonne Prestes tale, l. 14, “Of poynant saws hir needide never a deel.” Footnote 90: See above, p. xxxvi. There is an imperfect copy of the English text in the British Museum (C. 21. a. 34). Footnote 91: H. R. Plomer, _Robert Wyer, printer and bookseller_, 1897. For an account of the woodcuts, see p. 9. Footnote 92: “Here endyth thys Epistle, undre correccion, the xv. day of June, the yeere of Crist M^ciiii^clxxv.,” etc. (p. 85). Footnote 93: Examples of his writing are fairly abundant, _e.g._ in the Brit. Mus. MSS. Cotton Julius F. vii., Royal 13 C. i., Sloane 4 and Add. 27,443–4, 28,208, 34,888. In Sloane MS. 4, f. 38b, he gives a curious account of Fastolf’s last illness. Footnote 94: Stevenson, _Wars of the English in France_, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. [519]–[742], from Lambeth MS. 506, which is partly in Worcester’s own hand. His Annals, extending from 1324 to 1468, are printed in the same volume, p. [743], from the autograph MS. in the College of Arms. Footnote 95: _Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 288. Footnote 96: Written about 1385 and dedicated to Charles VI. It was first printed at Lyons about 1480. See the modern edition by E. Nys, _L’Arbre de Batailles_, Brussels, 1883. Footnote 97: The colophon of Caxton’s English version (above, p. xvi.) points to the source of the misnomer: “Thus endeth this boke whiche Xpyne of Pyse made and drewe out of the boke named Vegecius de re militari and out of tharbre of bataylles.” Christine in fact made use of Bonet’s work. Footnote 98: “I may sey to you that William hath goon to scole to a Lumbard called Karoll Giles, to lern and to be red in poetre or els in Frensh; for he hath byn with the same Caroll every dey ii. tymes or iii. and hath bought divers boks of hym,” H. Wyndesore to J. Paston, 27th Aug. 1458 (_Paston Letters_, i. p. 431). Footnote 99: _Paston Letters_, i. p. cxiv.; _Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 194. Footnote 100: Ed. J. Nasmith, 1778, p. 368, “1473, die 10 Aug. presentavi W. episcopo Wyntoniensi apud Asher librum Tullii de Senectute per me translatum in anglicis, sed nullum regardum recepi de episcopo.” Footnote 101: For this dedication, addressed by the translator, Stephen Scrope, to his stepfather, Sir John Fastolf, see the Introduction. Footnote 102: _Sc._ worldly. Footnote 103: _Sc._ old. Footnote 104: So the MS., but John, Duke of Berry, was born 30th November, 1340, and died 15th June, 1416. Footnote 105: