" On the outside of the wall of the churchyard, on a stone tablet, is the following curious inscription:"This wall was made at ye charges of ye right honourable and trulie pious Lorde Francis Russel, Duke of Bedford, out of true zeal and care for ye keeping of this churchyard, and ye wardrobe of God's saints, whose bodies lay therein buried, from violating by swine and other profanation, so witnessed!

And uppon the thirtie and two psalme, he condemneth also, or lykewyse the daunces which be had or used on the Sondaies or Lordes dayes.

Through grefe wherin the lordes of Salerne be The buriall pompe is not prepared yet:

The Lordes are come.

And whan he herethe hem, he commaundethe to his lordes to ryde besyde him, that the religiouse men may come to him.

And he takethe on; and than men zeven to the othere lordes, that ben aboute him.

And thei eten but litille bred, but zif it be in courtes of grete lordes.

And whan thei han eten, thei wypen hire hondes upon hire skirtes: for thei use non naperye, ne towaylles, but zif it be before grete lordes: but the common peple hathe none.

And aftre that thei ben zolden, anon thei sleen hem alle, and kutten of hire eres, and sowcen hem in vynegre, and there of thei maken gret servyse for lordes.

And thanne alle the cytees and gode townes senden hym ryche presentes; so that at that iourneye, he schalle have more than 60 chariottes charged with gold and sylver, with outen jewelles of gold and precyouse stones, that lordes zeven hym, that ben withouten estymacioun: and with outen hors and clothes of gold and of Camakaas and Tartarynes, that ben with outen nombre.

For with outen ony drede, ne were cursednesse and synne of Cristene men, thei scholden be lordes of alle the world.

For theise 2 ben the grettest lordes undir the firmament.

And everyche of theise grete lordes knowen wel y

drops of our lordes blood on it (as they say) and there is in the midst of the great crosse, a little crosse made of the crosse of Christ; but it is closed in the siluer, you must (if you will) beleeue it is so, for see it you cannot.

This realme hath of reuenues royall, euery yeere halfe a million of golde, or litle more: and all such as are of the prophets kinred, or descended of that blood (which are almost innumerable) are called Emyri, that is to say, lordes.

And here, noble lordes, is ended the song Of one that once to your owne ranke did belong: And thus have you learned a secrette from mee, That ne'er had beene knowne but for prettye Bessee.

The Duke of Padua hunting in the wood, Accompanied with Lordes and Gentlemen Fal.

The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevillethe forerunner of that great library of oriental travel which has enriched our modern literaturewas written, according to its author, first in Latin, then in French, and, lastly, in the year 1356, translated into English for the behoof of "lordes and knyghtes and othere noble and worthi men, that conne not Latyn but litylle."

SEE Lorde, Andre de. SONEY & SAGE CO.

Then was the lady of the house A proud dame, and malicious, Hoker-full, iche mis-segging, Squeamous, and eke scorning; To iche woman she had envie; She spake these words of felonie: "Ich have wonder, thou messenger, Who was thy lordes conseillor, To teach him about to send, And tell shame in iche an end!"

With the exception of one relating to the Sacraments, by John Prime (Lond. 1582), the most curious treatise is that entitled "The Supper of the Lorde, after the true meanyng of the sixte of John, &c.... wherunto is added, an Epystle to the reader, And incidentally in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the letter of master More against John Fryth."

This Tract was promptly answered by Sir Thomas More (A.D. 1533, "after he had geuen ouer the offyce of Lorde Chauncellour of Englande"), and is described by him as "the poysoned booke whych a nameles heretike hath named the Supper of the Lorde" (Works, pp. 1035, seqq., ed. Rastell).

This Tract was promptly answered by Sir Thomas More (A.D. 1533, "after he had geuen ouer the offyce of Lorde Chauncellour of Englande"), and is described by him as "the poysoned booke whych a nameles heretike hath named the Supper of the Lorde" (Works, pp. 1035, seqq., ed. Rastell).

He places the Supper of the Lorde at the head of the numerous productions of Robert Crowley, as if its authorship was perfectly ascertained.

And he arose and went to Nineve at the lordes commandment.