[36] Thus, as Bracton observes, if a villain be made a knight, he is thereby immediately enfranchised, and consequently accounted a gentleman, l. iv. f. 198. b. [37] Froissart, i. 384. [38] Du Cange says, the third order of Chivalry consisted of the Esquires; but he evidently thinks they were the personal attendants of knights, for he calls them infancons or damoiseaux. He does not seem to have thought that a grave old squire ever existed. [39] ----"Mais le dit escuyer s'excusa; et dit qu'il ne pouvoit trouver son bacinet."--Froissart, i. 211. [40] favour. [41] soon. [42] diligently. [43] attempted. [44] against. [45] rule. [46] the minstrelsy art. [47] went. [48] knew. [49] Geste of Kyng Horn, v. 233. [50] Mr Rose's note on the Romance of Partenopex of Blois, p. 51. [51] Caxton, Fayt of Armes and of Chyvalrye, c. 9., Mémoires du bon Messire Jean le Maingre, dit Boucicaut, Maréchal de France, c. 5, 9. in the sixth volume of the large collection of French Memoirs. [52] L'Histoire de Guerin de Montglaive. [53] L'Histoire et plaisante Cronicque du petit Jehan de Saintré, vol. 1. c. 3-6. I have the authority of Sir Walter Scott and other able writers on chivalry, to cite this romance as good evidence for the laws and manners of knighthood. It was written in 1459; the first edition was printed in Gothic characters in 1523, and it was reprinted in three volumes, 12mo. in 1724. [54] Caxton, Fayt of Armes and Chevalrye, c. 9. [55] _Damoisel_ et Eescuyer sont arrivés à Novandel demandant chivalarie, lequel layant reçu n'est plus appellé de tels tiltres, ains seulement des tiltre de chevalier.--Amadis de Gaul, liv. 3. c. 3. [56] Fauchet de l'Origine des Chevaliers, liv. 1. ch. 1. Monstrelet, vol. 1. c. 138. L'histoire de Bertrand du Guesclin, c. 1. [57] Paulus Warnefridus, lib. 1. c. 23. [58] Eximinus Petri Salonava Justitia Arragonum. Lib. de privilegiis baronum et riccorum hominum. [59] Froissart, vol. 2. c. 31.