Great Britain -- History -- Henry III, 1216-1272; Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272
[197] “Nundinae,” R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 25. See Professor Tout’s
article on “The Fair of Lincoln,” _Eng. Hist. Rev._, April, 1903, p.
241, note 2. Cf. also _Hist. G. le Mar._, l. 16334 (see above, p. 34).
[198] “Li lor mestre perreior.”
[199] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16630–42.
[200] That is, after going along what is now the street called Westgate
to its junction with that now known as Bailgate (a portion of the old
Ermine Street), they turned southward down the latter; the “church on
their left” would be All Saints, near the angle formed by the junction
of Bailgate and Eastgate. The cathedral church would have been called
not “_un_ moustier” but “_le_ moustier,” as in l. 16705.
[201] Obviously the space between the west front of the cathedral
church and the east gate of the castle.
[202] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16681–708.
[203] William the Breton, _Gesta Philippi Aug._, c. 223.
[204] _Hist. G. le Mar._, l. 16707.
[205] R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 23.
[206] _Ib._ p. 24.
[207] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16729–68.
[208] “Aval une rue a senestre S’en tornerent vers Wikefort,” ll.
16774–5. Perche and his men had evidently been fighting with their
backs towards the east front of the minster, so that the “street on
their left” would be the main road--Ermine Street, Steep Hill, High
Street--running down due southward “towards Wigford” as the poet says.
[209] The present Stonebow was built in the fifteenth century, but the
name “Stan-bogh” occurs in a document dating from 1220–1230. Sympson,
_Lincoln_, pp. 384, 425.
[210] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16777–828. Wigford Bridge is now called
the High Bridge.
[211] “Reials! reials!” l. 16903.
[212] “Dont point ne m’ennuie,” contemptuously says the Marshal’s
biographer, l. 16939.
[213] See Note IV.
[214] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16830–944.
[215] See Note IV.
[216] R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 23.
[217] _Ib._, _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17002–20.
[218] _Hist. Ducs_, p. 194.
[219] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 16997–17018.
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