_Companions_ in arms, nature of such an union, I. 118-123. _Conde_, D. José Antonio, value of his searches into Arabic Spanish historians, II. 242. note. _Constancy_, a greater virtue in chivalric times than in the present day, I. 206. Spenser's exhortation to, 207. _Constantine_, fabulous order of, I. 374. _Conversation_ of knights, its subjects, I. 175. _Courage_ of the knight, I. 124-130. _Courtenay_, Sir Peter, his adventures in France, I. 154, &c. _Courtesy_, a knightly virtue, I. 160. Courtesy of a dragon, 161. note. At tournaments, 268. _Cousines_, dame des belle, her reproof of a young page for his not being in love, I. 32. _Crawford_, Sir David de Lindsay, Earl of, his joust with Lord Wells, I. 290. _Cross_, every military order had its, I. 362. Wretched taste in concealing the cross of the order of the Bath by a star, ib. _Cyclas_, I. 85. _Cyneheard_, his story, I. 5. D. _Dagger_ of mercy, description of it, I. 92. Story of its use, 93. _Dambreticourt_, Lord Eustace, his chivalry inspired by the lady Isabella, I. 204. His valour at the battle of Poictiers, II. 44. _Dames_ and _Damsels_. See _Lady_. _Degradation_, ceremonies of, I. 60. _Derby_, Earl of, the sort of death he desired, I. 147. _Devices_, what they were, I. 78. Worn in tournaments, 272-275. _Discipline_, chivalric array not inconsistent with feudal discipline, I. 145. _Douglas_, story of the perilous castle of, I. 205. Generousness of the good Lord James of, I. 206, 402. His character, ib. note. The Douglas of the sixteenth century, II. 67. Wins the pennon of Hotspur, 77. His heroism and noble death, 80. Archibald, at Shrewsbury, ib. _Dress_ of ladies in chivalric times, I. 185. Importance of modesty of, 186. _Dub_, meaning of the word, I. 53. note. _Dynadan_, Sir, a merry knight of the Round Table, his pretended dislike of women, I. 196. note. E. _Edward I._, his chivalric character, I. 395. A chivalric anecdote of, I. 142. _Edward II._, state of chivalry in his reign, I. 402. 409. _Edward III._, state of armour in his time, I. 97. 100. Chivalry in his reign, II. 4, &c. _Eloisa_, the Lady, a heroine of chivalry, I. 235. _England_, antiquity of the sarcasm of its not being the country of original invention, II. 48. note. The melancholy of its mirth curiously noticed, ib. _Errantry_, facts relating to the knight-errantry of the middle ages, I. 140. 145. English knights-errant, 225. General facts and usages, 226, &c. F. _Falconry._ See _Hawking_. _Falcons_, placed on perches above knights at chivalric entertainments, I. 281. _Father in chivalry_, the respect which a knight bore to the cavalier that knighted him, I. 54.