[1] The History of Italy, from the Fall of the Western Empire to the Commencement of the Wars of the French Revolution. By George Perceval, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 1825. [2] A third volume was added in the year 1781, which also bears the title "Mémoires sur l'ancienne Chevalerie;" though more than half of the volume relates to the sport of hunting, which is a baronial or feudal rather than a chivalric subject. [3] The Troubadour, &c. By L. E. L., author of The Improvisatrice. 12mo. [4] Jean Froissart, called Sir Jean Froissart, (the title, Sir, being in the middle ages common to all who were either in the holy orders of the church or in the holy order of knighthood,) was born at Valenciennes in the year 1337, and died in 1397. [5] The Prologue of Froissart--Lord Berners' translation. [6] I subjoin Schultens' Latin version of the Arabic passage in Bohadin, vita et res gestæ Saladini, c. 127. p. 209. "Cupere Anglum ut Almalichus Aladilus sororem ipsius in matrimonium duceret (eam e Sicilia cujus functo domino nupta fuerat, secum avexerat frater, quum insulam illam trajiceret)." [7] Reiske's Latin version of Abulfeda is this:--"Illuc commeabant Francorum pacis causa legati, eam offerentes conditionem, ut Malec-al-Adel, frater Sultani sororem Regis Angliæ in matrimonium, et Hierosolymas in regnum acciperet." Abulfeda, vol. iv. p. 111. [8] Tacitus Germania, sec. 6. Cæsar de Bello Gallico, lib. i. s. 48. [9] Tacitus Germania, s. 13. Mallet's Northern Antiquities, vol. i. p. 197. [10] Tacitus Germania. Cæsar, lib. 6. s. 14. [11] Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 16. c. 13. [12] Chron. Saxon, 57, &c. Florence, ad an. 784. William of Malmsbury, 7. [13] Athenæus, lib. iv. c. 36. [14] Treatise on the Virtue of the Female Sex. [15] Tacitus Germania, s. 18. c. 19. [16] Ibid. [17] Strabo, lib. iv. Tacitus Historia, lib. iv. c. 61. 65. Pomponius Mela, lib. iii. c. 6. [18] Tacitus, Hist. lib. iv. c. 18. Life of Agricola, s. 32. Germania, s. 7. [19] Barthol. p. 54. as cited by Warton, Dissert. I. Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe, in the first volume of the late admirable edition of his History of English Poetry. [20] It is also curious that this blow was said to have been customary.--"Dato eisdem, sicut consuetudinis est, manu colapho." [21] Not exactly according to the form, for by this time a belt with a sword inserted was girded round the military candidate, instead of delivering a javelin to him. See the preceding page. [22] William of Malmsbury, lib. ii. c. 6. [23] Ingulph, p. 512. [24] Caxton, Fayts of Arms and Chivalry, chapter entitled "Of the Honor that ought to be done to a Knight." [25] Spencer's Fairy Queen, book v. canto 5. st. 37. The romance of the Morte D'Arthur says, that in early times there were no hermits, but who had been men of worship and prowess; "and the hermits held great household, and refreshed people that were in distress." Lib. 18. c. 10.