Grete See 233 



And also beyond the Great Sea he saw Sir William Scrope so 

 armed, with a label, in the company of the Earl of Hereford at 

 Satalia in Turkey, at a treaty which was concluded between the 

 King of Cyprus and 'le Takka,' Lord of Satalia, when the King 

 of Cyprus became Lord of Satalia. 



This earl was Humphrey X, Earl of Hereford from 1361 to 

 1372,^ the father-in-law of Henry, Earl of Derby. He was also 

 present at Ayas.^ Sir Wilham Scrope, who, according to Nico- 

 las, almost realized Chaucer's beau ideal of a knight,^ was prob- 

 ably the same who, according to the testimony of Sir Alexander 

 Goldingham,* was with Hereford in Lombardy previous to this. 



Grete See. Though Yule^ thinks the Black Sea is here meant, 

 the term is usually understood of the Mediterranean.® 



Tramissene. Froissart's Traniessaines, Tremessaines."^ In 

 Arabic it is known as Talimsdn, and otherwise generally as 

 Tlemgen. The kingdom of Tlem(;en included a considerable 

 territory in what is now western Algeria, including Oran.^ The 

 city has some remarkable remains of Moorish architecture.® Of 

 the period between 1282 and 1337 we are told (Encyc. Brit. 26. 

 1035) • 'Under their sway [that of the Abd-el-Wahid] Tlem- 

 gen flourished exceedingly. The presence of Jews and Chris- 

 tians was encouraged, and the Christians possessed a church. 

 The bazaar of the Franks was a large walled enclosure, the gates 

 of which were closed at sunset. As many as 5000 Christians 

 lived peaceably in Tlemqen, and the Sultan included in his army 

 a Christian bodyguard.' 



^Dict. Nat. Biog. 



^ See above, p. 230. 



'Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy 2. 105 (cf. 2, 106). 



* Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy 2. 228 (cf. 2. 107) ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 51. 138. For Satalia in relation to Amurath I (1386), see Hammer- 

 Purgstall I. 200. 



** Marco Polo i. 3. 



"Gower, Conf. Am. 3. 2487-90; 4. 1620-37; Mandeville, ed. Halliwell, 

 p. 259; Hertzberg, p. 579. 

 ^ Still Treniesin as late as 1517 (Brewer, Reign of Henry VIII i. 277). 



* See the map in Meakin, opp. p. 80. 

 'See Encyc. Brit., nth ed., 26. 1034. 



