I02 Lionel's Will 



To Thomas Waleys, the golden circlet with which his brother^ 

 was created prince. 



To Edmund Mone, the circlet with which he himself was made 

 duke.® 



To Nicholas Beaconsfield,® a gold necklace, enclosing two 

 hands, and ten marks annual pension for life on the manor of 

 Brimpsfield [Gloucester].^** 



To Robert Bardulf, a gold necklace in the shape of a heart. 



To the valets of his chamber, all his rings, distributed as to 

 his executors shall seem good. 



All other property, real or. personal, to be kept for the pay- 

 ment of his debts.^^ Whatever then remains to be apportioned 



1383, March i, Amedeo VI dies, and his body is transported to the 

 seashore near Naples by Musard and others, who embark with it for 

 the Ligurian coast. On April 23, Musard dies at Savona (Claretta, p. 

 967; cf. Cordey, p. 242, note 6; M. H. P., p. 1029), and is buried in the 

 church of St. John of Jerusalem (Claretta, ib.). In general, cf. Mugnier, 

 Lettres des Visconti, pp. 20-23. 



Gabotto (pp. 226-7) is tempted to identify him with Richard de la 

 Vache, knight and chamberlain of Edward III, but this seems impossible 

 (cf. Edith Rickert, in Modern Philology 11. 210 ff.). 



" Can this have any relation to Gingelein, the 'fair unknown' of the 

 Middle English Libeaus Desconus (ed. Kaluza, 11. 7, 13), referred to in 

 Chaucer's Sir Thopas (189)? In that romance the prize of a contest is 

 a gerfalcon (11. 773, 787, 1023, 1030, etc.), and the hero is said (1. 1302) 

 to have had adventures in Ireland (where Lionel had been viceroy). 



*'Cf. Racinet, Vol. 4: 'Les seigneurs, les damoiseaux prirent I'habitude 

 [from about 1340] d'habiller leurs jambes-de deux couleurs differentes : 

 Tune etait blanche, jaune, verte, I'autre noire, bleue, ou rouge; on portait 

 meme des souliers de couleurs differentes.' Cf. p. 49, note 59. 



^The Black Prince (1330-1376). This was on May 12, 1343 (Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 17. 91). 



*0n Nov. 13, 1362. 



* Beaconsfield was summoned to proceed to his estates in Ireland on July 

 28, 1368 (Rymer), along with Bromwych and John Comyn (see p. 99). 



'" Cf. CaL Close Rolls for Sept. i, 1374. 



" Lionel must have been deeply in debt, perhaps because of the expenses 

 incurred in Ireland. Already on Feb. 10, 1362 (Rymer), Edward III 

 speaks of Lionel's remaining in Ireland at great charges (ad sumptus 

 excessivos), when he had been there less than five months. On April 

 24, 1364, Lionel, who had had his salary advanced to 13s. 4d. ($50) a 

 day on Nov. 12, 1362, when he was made duke, accepted a bond (but 

 perhaps this is to be understood rather as an order on the treasurer) 

 from Edward III for the whole of his stay in Ireland from the date 



