[107] These curious particulars are to be gathered, as Dr. Nott remarks, from the following passage in Hardynge's Chronicle. "And as lords' sons been set, at four year age, At school to learn the doctrine of letture; And after six to have them in language And sit at meet, seemly in all nurture: At ten and twelve to revel is their cure, To dance and sing, and speak of gentleness: At fourteen year they shall to field I sure, At hunt the deer, and catch at hardiness. "For deer to hunt and slay, and see them bleed An hardiment giveth to his courage. And also in his wit he giveth heed, Imagining to take them at advantage. At sixteen year to warry and to wage, To joust and ride and castles to assail, To skirmish als, and make sicker scurage, And set his watch for peril nocturnal. "And every day his armour to essay, In feats of arms with some of his meynie; His might to prove, and what that he do may If that he were in such a jeopardy Of war befall, that by necessity He might algates with weapons him defend. Thus should he learn in his priority His weapons all, in armes to dispend." See to the same effect, the Paston letters, vol. iii. 34, 35, &c. [108] This curious circumstance is mentioned in a journal of Sir John Wallop's expedition, which Dr. Nott dug out of the State-Paper Office. The whole passage is amusing. "July 31. Wallop advances to Bettune. Passing by Terouenne, he attempts to draw out the garrison of that place, but fails. The French defeated in a skirmish. Wallop says, that he sent a letter to the commandant of Terouenne, an old acquaintance, that if he had any gentlemen under his charge, who would break a staff for their ladies' sake, he would appoint six gentlemen to meet them. The challenge is accepted, and the conditions are fixed. Mr. Howard, Peter Carew, Markham, Shelly of Calais, with his own two men, Cawverly and Hall, are the English appellants. They all acquit themselves gallantly at the jousts. Hall, at his first course, did break his staff galliardly, in the midst of the Frenchman's cuirass. Markham stroke another on his head-piece, and had like to have overthrown him. Peter Carew stroke his very well, and had one broken on him. Cawverly was reported to have made the fairest course; but by the evil running of the Frenchman's horse, which fled out of the course, he was struck under the arm, and run through the body into the back, and taken into the town where he was well treated. I wish to God, said Wallop, the next kinsman I had, not being my brother, had excused him." [109] Pinkerton's History of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 85, &c. [110] Drummond, 140, &c. Buchanan, xiii. 25.