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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na S. No 52., Dec. 27. '56. 



Mallapides plat and peion 



And the booke of turba philosephorum 

 Both Aristotle Geber and Hermes 



Also Lully Morien and Rosaries 

 Bonelles Raymondus and Albert 



Arnold and Percy the Muncke soe blacks 

 Aros and Rasces and allso Dessrima 



The sister of Moises Mary prophitis 

 Baken also the Grate Clarke 



Firmith I wisse all this worke 

 All these accordeth now in one 



That here is the philosephers stone 

 Otherwise it may not bee 



Vnderstand this I counsell the 

 And praye thou God of his grace 



That thou maest haue tj'me and space 

 Too haue the troth of this parrable 



Thancke thou God that is so stable 

 For many a man desireth this 



* * Pope Empror * * I wisse 

 Prest and Clarke and alsoe frier 



And not so * but the very begger 

 Now Jesus * it be thy will 



Kepe vs from the paine of hell 

 And as thou madest daies 



Bring vs to the blese of heauen 

 All maner good men in his degree- 



Amen amen for Charitie." 



(Towards the end of these lines are a few words 

 that are partially obliterated by the rolling and 

 unrolling of the manuscript.) 



The scroll on which these lines are written is 

 held by two figures (eight inches in height), a 

 king and a beggar. The king has a scarlet robe 

 over a blue one, white hair and long beard, a 

 crown, and a golden staff. The beggar is in 

 ragged grey and blue clothes, with a hood ; a 

 small bag (or purse) on his right side, a scarlet 

 belt slung over his right shoulder, supporting a 

 bag on his left side. His legs are half naked, he 

 has loose stockings, and black boots. Under his 

 right arm is a long staff terminating in a horse's 

 hoof, and having a scroll folded round its upper 

 part. Below these figures is the following line, 

 which would appear to be the moral of the whole, 

 " Si Queras In Merdis Secreta Philosophorum 

 Expensum Perdis Opera Tempus Que Laborem." 



CUTHBEBT BeDE, B.A. 



EDWARD II. S RETREAT INTO GLAMORGANSHIRE. 



In the first volume of The Lives of the Lord 

 Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of 

 England, by Lord Crtuipbell, tiiere are errors of 

 some importance, which .should be rectified in the 

 new edition now preparing for publicHtion. These 

 errors are contained in the following extracts 

 from the work*, and relate to some of the last 

 events in the life of Edward II. 



"On the 2nth of October 1326, the King having gone 

 away with Hugh le Despencer to Ireland and left the 

 realm without any government, the prelates, earls, barons, 



* Pages 204. and 205. of the second edition. 



and knights assembled at Bristol and chose Edward the 

 King's son, Custos of the kingdom whilst his father con- 

 tinued absent. On the same day the Prince assumed the 

 government and issued the necessary legal proceedings 

 under his privy seal, ' because he had no other for the 

 purpose.' 



" When the King returned from Ireland he found him- 

 self already dethroned. The Queen was now in the en- 

 joyment of supreme power. She kept her husband in 

 close confinement, hypocritically pretending to lament his 

 misfortunes. She pretended to associate the Prince her 

 sou with herself in the government ; and she contrived 

 to get the Great Seal into her possession, which consider- 

 ably facilitated her proceedings, for less respect was paid 

 by the multitude to the privy seal which she had hitherto 

 used. 



"The Bishop of Hereford was sent to the King at 

 Kenilworth, with a deceitful message, to request that he 

 would give such directions respecting the Great Seal as 

 were necessary for the conservation of the peace, and the 

 due administration of justice. The King, without friend 

 or adviser, said he would send the Seal to his Queen and 

 son, not only for these purposes, but likewise for matters 

 of grace. He then handed the Great Seal to Sir William 

 le Blount, who on the 30th of November delivered it to 

 the Queen and the Prince ; but the Queen had the un- 

 controlled dominion over it. She pretended to hand it 

 over to Ayremyne, the Master of the Rolls, as Keeper, 

 and she employed it to summon a parliament at West- 

 minster, in her husband's name, for the purpose of de- 

 posing him. According to the tenour of the writs under 

 the Great Seal, the parliament was to be held before the 

 King, if he should be present ; and if not before Isabel, 

 the Queen-consort, and Edward, the King's son." 



The errors referred to are contained in the pre- 

 ceding extracts, and a brief notice of" the military- 

 writs issued by Edward after the hostile landing 

 of Isabella will prove that he did not go to Ire- 

 land, but that his flight was into Glamorganshire 

 in South Wales. 



Isabella landed near Harwich on September 

 25, 1326, and on October 10, military writs were 

 tested by Edward at Gloucester, calling out with 

 the utmost expedition levies from the Marches 

 and Borders of Wales. (Rot. Pat. 20 Edw. II. 

 M. 12.) On October 12, theKing was atWestbury, 

 near Newnham. (See Patent Rolls, M. 12. of that 

 date.) On the 14th and 15th he was at Tintern, 

 where he appointed Thomas de Bradeston to the 

 custody of Berkeley Castle. On October 16, the 

 King was at Striguil Castle, where he remained a 

 few days. On Monday the 20th he empowered 

 Hugh le Despenser, Edmond Hacluit, and Bogo 

 de Knoyville, to seize the castles of Grosmont, 

 Skeufreth, and Whitcastle, whilst John Bennet 

 was directed to seize the castle of Monnumth. 

 On Monday, October 27, the King was at Cardiff, 

 still taking measures to cover his retreat. At 

 Cardiff the King appointed Howell ap Yorwerth 

 ap Griffith and Howell ap David to raise the 

 whole population of Maghay [Magor] and Went- 

 Iwg. Writs, of the same date, were addressed to 

 Evan ap Meuric and Evan ap Morgan for Nethes- 

 land and Kilvey, and various other individuals 

 received similar appointments for the difierent 



