I. noire appointements "our arrangement

1. 17. pas de jeune clercy "a gross blunder." The term vice de clerc was used for a clérical error, a slip in a document. Pas de clerc is a popular version of this.

1. 91. Patelin. The Farce of Patelin, one of the most witty of the mediaeval farces or broad comédies, was written about 1460, and hâs been ascribed to Antoine de Sale, author of the taie of Petit Jehan de Saintré. Patelin is a needy lawyer, who contrives to cheat a rich neighbour out of a pièce of cloth. He then défends this neighbour's shepherd against a charge of making away with his sheep. The plaintiff, seeing his two defrauders together, mixes up the sheep and the cloth hopelessly, in spite of the judge*s appeals to " revenir à nos moutons/* a phrase which has become proverbial. Patelin instructs his client to feign idiocy, and thus gets him off. But when the lawyer claims his fées, the client continues tbe pretence, and thus cheats the cheater.

1. 32. Agnelet, or Lambkîn, is the name of the shepherd in the farce.

1. 16. par la main même de ce Warwtck* Warwick landed in September, 1470, in England, and forced Edward IV. to fly, proclaiming Henry VI. King. Edward returned however in 1471, overthrew and killed Warwick at Bamet, and finally crushed the Lançastrians at Tewkesbury.

1. 34. la maison et Anjou et Sicile, René of Anjou was titolar king of Sidly.

1. 95. sa sœur^ princesse de Savoie^ Yolande, Duchess of Savoy.

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