in'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