_of the order_ _Vpon Grenewyche border,_ _Called Obseruaunce_] The statement that Edward the Third founded a religious house at Greenwich in 1376 appears to rest on no authority. A grant of Edward the Fourth to certain Minorites or Observant Friars of the order of St. Francis of a piece of ground which adjoined the palace at Greenwich, and on which they had begun to build several small mansions, was confirmed in 1486 by a charter of Henry the Seventh, who founded there a convent of friars of that order, to consist of a warden and twelve brethren at the least; and who is said to have afterwards rebuilt their convent from the foundation. The friars of Greenwich were much favoured by Katherine, queen of Henry the Eighth; and when, during the question of her divorce, they had openly espoused her cause, the king was so greatly enraged that he suppressed the whole order throughout England. The convent at Greenwich was dissolved in 1534. Queen Mary reinstated them in their possessions, and new-founded and repaired their monastery. Queen Elizabeth suppressed them, &c. See Lysons’s _Environs of London_, iv. 464. ed. 1796. v. 754. _Babuell besyde Bery_] When by an order of Pope Urban the Fourth, the Grey Friars were removed out of the town and jurisdiction of Bury St. Edmund, in 1263, “they retired to a place just without the bounds, beyond the north gate, called Babwell, now the Toll-gate, which the abbat and convent generously gave them to build on; and here they continued till the dissolution.” Tanner’s _Not. Mon._ p. 527. ed. 1744. Page 340. v. 755. _To postell vpon a kyry_] i. e. to comment upon a Kyrie eleison: (a _postil_ is a short gloss, or note). v. 757. _coted_] i. e. quoted. Page 341. v. 779. _blother_] i. e. gabble. v. 780. _make a Walshmans hose_ _Of the texte and of the glose_] So again our author in his _Garlande of Laurell_; “And after conueyauns as the world goos, It is no foly to vse _the Walshemannys hose_.” v. 1238. vol. i. 411. Compare _The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis_; “Of omnigatherene now his glose, He _maid it lyk a Wealchman hose_.” _Scot. Poems of the Sixteenth Century_, (by Dalyell), p. 332.