^{page 297 note a} Three of these Knights, namely, the Earl of Gloucester, the Earl of Lincoln, and William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in conjunction with the King's eldest son, Prince Edward, and his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaster, appear to have had a few years afterwards the chief superintendance of Tournaments. For in the Statuta de Armis, sometimes intitled Statutum armorum in Tornranaentis, which must have teen made about the year 1295; it is said, that if any earl, or baron, or other knight, should go against that statute, such knight, by assent of all the baronage, should lose horse and harness, and abide in prison at the pleasure of our Lord Sir Edward, the King's son, and Sir Edmund, the King's brother, Sir William de Valence, Sir Gilbert de Clare, and the Earl of Lincoln.

The late Mr. Daines Barrington, in his Observations on the more ancient Statutes, observes, that this statute “may very well merit the attention of the herald or the reader of ancient romances, as there are a great many terms used in it, which relate to chivalry and armour.” It will be found in the Statutes of the Realm lately published by order of his Majesty's Commissioners on the public Records, printed from a manuscript in the Bodleian library, with various readings from the printed copies. The date of it has been considered as wholly uncertain; yet it appears to me that it could not have been far distant from that which I have ventured to assign it, on the following grounds. The names mentioned in it of Edward the King's son and Edmund his brother, might have served for the reign of King Edward the third, and so might those of Gilbert de Clare, and the Earl of Lincoln; but William de Valence, the Earl of Pembroke, who died in 1296, was the last of his family of that name: and as the Earl of Gloucester died in 1295, and Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, in 1296, the statute could not have been of a later date than 1295.

By the above mentioned statute it is provided that no knight or esquire, serving at the tournament, should bear a sword pointed, or dagger pointed, or staff, or mace, but only a broad sword for turneying: and all that bear banners should, be armed with mufflers, and cuishes, and, shoulder-plates, and, a scull-cap, without more.

^{page 299 note b} In the various royal grants to him, entered on the patent and other rolls, he is sometimes styled Johannes de Britannia, Comes Richemundiæ, sometimes Dux Britanniæ and Comes Richmundiæ; and sometimes simply, as on this roll, Johannes de Britannia.

^{page 300 note c} ‘Par allet’, from aillette, a little wing: these, no doubt, are the singular appendages to the shoulders, which appear on the monumental effigies and other representations of the knights of this period, and are to be seen on that of Roger de Trumpington, whose name occurs in this roll.

^{page 300 note d} Probably a sword wrapped round with woollen list or cloth, for the purpose of blunting its edge. Ducange voce Baleuja, says, “Armoricis hodie Balen veil Ballen, lecti operimentum lanejim.” J. B.

^{page 301 note e} Alphonso was the King's eldest son, who died soon afterwards.

^{page 301 note f} We read in Stowe's Chronicle, A.D. 1278, sixth of Edward I. “In the month of April the King, the Queen, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, with their traines, took their journey toward Glastonbury, and there sojourned, where the King caused the tomb of Artour to be opened, whose bones he caused to be removed out of the said tomb, to behold the length and bignes of them, and then returned to London.” p. 200. J. B.