[31] Quand Messire Gautier veit ce, il dit, j'amais ne soye salué de madame et chere amie, se je réntre en chastel n'en forteresse, jusques à tant que j'aye l'un de ces venans verse. Froissart, c. 82. [32] Froissart, c. 82. [33] See Vol. I. p. 151. [34] Froissart, c. 87. [35] Vol. i. p. 246. ante. [36] Froissart, c. 103. Le Comte D'Erby dit, Qui merci prie merci doit avoir. This sentence, I suppose has escaped the notice of writers who have represented the sole amusement of knights to have consisted in cutting the throats of common people. [37] Froissart, c. 107. [38] This is Lord Berners' rendering of the passage. The phrase "par un sien clerc" had crept into some editions of Froissart; and Mr. Johnes's translation is, "Sir Walter caused the inscription to be read to him by a clerk." This, perhaps, was necessary, as the inscription was in Latin, for heroes have not been famous for their clerkship. But the inference which some writers have drawn, that he could not read at all, is perfectly unwarrantable. [39] Froissart, c. 110. [40] Froissart, c. 135 [41] Froissart, c. 146. [42] She was the Lady Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Plantagenet, surnamed of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, and uncle to Edward III. [43] Dugdale. [44] The reader may, reasonably enough, enquire who could have been the vendor? I cannot tell him: I can only copy Stow in these matters. [45] Stow's London, book 4. c. 3. Maitland's History of London, p. 661. This was the state of the Charter House till the suppression of the monasteries, in the reign of Henry VIII. Its annual value was 642_l._ It was given to Sir Thomas Audley, speaker of the House of Commons, with whose only daughter it went, by marriage, to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and from him, by descent, to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk. In the time of James I. it was purchased by that "right phoenix of charity," Thomas Sutton, citizen and girdler, for the large sum of 13,000_l._; and he converted the buildings and gardens into an hospital for the relief of aged men, education of youth, and maintaining the service of God. [46] Froissart, 286. [47] See vol. i. p. 204. [48] Ashmole's History of the Garter, c. 26. s. 3. Froissart, cc. 142. 147. [49] Dugdale, Baronage, i. 503. [50] Authorities in Ashmole, p. 702. [51] Froissart, c. 125. See the first volume of this work, page 228. [52] Froissart, c. 161. Monseigneur Jehan de Clermont dit, Chandos, ce sont bien les parolles de vos Anglois, qui ne savent adviser riens de nouvel; mais quant, qu'ils voyent, leur est bel. This is a very curious proof of the antiquity of the common remark that Englishmen are a borrowing and improving people, and not famous for originality of invention. It might be contended, but not in this place, that we are both. And here I will transcribe another sentence of Froissart, more characteristic and true. "Les Anglois, selon leur coutume se divertirent moult tristement." [53] Froissart, c. 226. [54] Froissart, c. 237.