142-4.
Footnote 232: Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. iii. p. 214.
Footnote 233: Ibid., 1st Series, vol. iii. pp. 138-9.
Footnote 234: A Method jor Travell, fol. B 4, verso.
Footnote 235: Historiettes, ed. Paris, 1834, tome 1er, p. 72.
Footnote 236: So counted the Pope's Legate in 1596. Cited by Jusserand,
in Sports et Jeux D'Exercise dans L'ancienne France, p. 252.
Footnote 237: A View of France, fol. V, verso.
Footnote 238: Jusserand, op. cit., p. 241. Cited from Thomassin's
Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'Eglise, 1725, tome iii. col.
1355.
Footnote 239: The View of France, T 4, verso, V, verso.
Footnote 240: Fol. C.
Footnote 241: Every Man in his Humour, Act IV. Sc. v.
Footnote 242: Touchant les Duels, ed. 1722, p. 79.
Footnote 243: "If in the Court they spie one in a sute of the last yeres
making, they scoffingly say, 'Nous le cognoissons bien, il ne nous
mordra pas, c'est un fruit suranne.' We know him well enough, he will
not hurt us, hee's an Apple of the last yeere" (The View of France,
fol. T 4).
Footnote 244: Instructions for Forreine Travell, 1642.
Footnote 245: Op. cit., pp. 65-70.
Footnote 246: Ibid., pp. 181, 188.
Footnote 247: Op. cit., pp. 193-5.
Footnote 248: Ibid., p. 51.
Footnote 249: "The Great Horse" is the term used of animals for war or
tournaments, in contradistinction to Palfreys, Coursers, Nags, and other
common horses. These animals of "prodigious weight" had to be taught to
perform manoeuvres, and their riders, the art of managing them according
to certain rules and principles. See A New Method ... to Dress Horses,
by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, London, 1667.
Footnote 250: Histoire et Recherches des Antiquites de la Ville de
Paris, par H. Sauval, Paris, 1724, tome ii. p. 498.
Footnote 251: Les Antiquitez de la Ville de Paris. Paris 1640, Livre
second, p. 403.
Footnote 252: Probably the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper in
1592-1596.
Footnote 253: Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. iii. pp.
220-1.
Footnote 254: Archeologia, vol. xxxvi. pp. 343-4.
Footnote 255: Collectania, First Series, ed. for the Oxford Historical
Society (vol. v.) by C.R.L. Fletcher, p. 213.
Footnote 256: See Archeologia, xxi. p. 506. Gilbert's and La Noue's
dreams were of academies like Vittorino da Feltre's - not Pluvinel's.
Footnote 257: Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 276.
Footnote 258: Ibid., pp. 280-2.
Footnote 259: The Interpreter of the Academic for Forrain Languages,
and all Noble Sciences, and Exercises, London, 1648.
Footnote 260: Evelyn's Diary, 9th August 1682.
Footnote 261: Ibid., 18th December 1684.
Footnote 262: Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. pp. 309-13.
Footnote 263: Ibid., p. 319.
Footnote 264: Le Maneige Royal, ou l'on peut remarquer le defaut et la
perfection du chevalier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne de
Princes, fait et pratique en l'instruction du Roy par Antoine Pluvinel
son Escuyer principal, Conseiller en son Conseil d'Estat, son Chambellan
ordinaire, et Sous-Gouverneur de sa Majeste.
