"chivalry, in Edward, must be extremely pleafing to every one, as it makes that Monarch appear in his true character. If rage and indignation at the delay of the furrender of "Calais to him, had not for a moment put a "violence upon his difpofition, his crown of pearls would have been for Eustache de St. "Pierre, or Jean de Vienne." tr EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE. "EDWARD, Prince of Wales," fays Montagne," that English Prince who governed "Guienne for fo long a time, a perfonage whose "condition and whose fortune had always fome distinguished points of grandeur, had been 66 very much offended by the inhabitants of the city of Limoges; and, taking the town by "ftorm, could not be wrought upon by the "cries of the people, of the women and of the "children, who were given up to flaughter, im"ploring his mercy, and throwing themselves "at his feet, till proceeding farther in the town, "he perceived three French Gentlemen, who "with an incredible degree of courage were "alone fuftaining the fhock of his victorious. army. His confideration and respect of fuch distinguished valour, immediately blunted the edge of his refentment, and he began, by "granting 66 66 B 4 "granting the lives of those three persons, to "fpare the lives of all that were in the town." Froiffart has preserved the names of these three brave men: "They were," says he, "Meffieurs Jehan de Villemur, Hugues de la "Roche, and Roger de Beaufort, fon of the "Count de Beaufort, Captains of the town. "When they faw," adds the Chronicler," the "misery and the destruction that was preffing 66 upon themselves and their people, they said, "We fhall be all dead men, if we do not defend "ourfelves: let us then fell our lives dearly, as "true Chevaliers ought to do: and these three "French Gentlemen did many feats at arms. "When the Prince in his car came to the spot where they were, he obferved them with great "pleasure, and became foftened and appeased by "their extraordinary acts of valour. The "three Gentlemen, after having fought thus valiantly, fixing their eyes upon their swords, faid with one voice to the Prince and the "Duke of Lancafter," My Lords, we are yours; • you have conquered us; difpofe of us according "to the law of arms."-" By Heaven," replied "the Duke of Lancaster, "we have no other in"tention, Meffire Jehan, and we take you as our "prisoners."-And fo," adds Froiffart, "these "noble Chevaliers were taken, as I have been « informed." Livre 1. c. 289. "The "The most common method," fays Montagne," to foften the hearts of those whom we "have offended, is,. when they have the power "to revenge themselves in their hands, by seeing 66 us at their mercy, to move them by our sub"miffion to pity and commiferation. Some"times, however, bravery, conftancy, and refo"lution, though directly contrary methods, have "produced the fame effect." RICHARD THE SECOND. JOHN WICKLIFFE. WICKLIFFE," faid Luther, " attacked the "morals and the rites of the Church of Rome. "The Monks, particularly thofe of the Mendi"cant Order, feem to be the great objects of his "fatire. He charges, in one of his Tracts, the "Freres, that is, the Fryars, with holding fifty "herefies, and many more, if men would feek "them well out. He oppofed very much the "giving tithes, unless to those who officiated at "the Altar. He attacked the Pope's fupremacy, " and the doctrine of transubstantiation. In his "MS. Treatife, Why Poor Priests have no "Benefices,' "Benefices," he fays, And if Lords fhallen 66 present Clerks to Benefices, they wolen have "commonly gold in great quantity; and holden "their curates in their worldly office, and fuffren "the wolves of Hell to ftrangle men's fouls; fo "that they have much gold, and their office don "for nought, and their chapels holden up for vain "glory and hypocrify; and yet they wolen not "present a clerk able of kunning of God's laws, "and good life and holy enfample to the people, "but a kitchen-clerk, or a penny-clerk, or wife "in building castles, or worldly doing, tho he "kanne not read well his Sauter, (Pfalter,) and "knoweth not the Commandments of God, ne "Sacraments of the Church. And yet fome "Lords, to colouren their fimony, wole not take "for themselves, but kerchiefs for the lady, or a tun of wine. And when fome Lords wolden prefent a good man, and able for love of God "and Christian fouls, then fome Ladies ben means "to have a dancer, a tripper or tapits, or hun"ter or hawker, or a wild player of fummer's દ gamenes, for flattering and gifts going betwixte; "and if it be for dancing in bed so much the "worse." Wickliffe tranflated the Bible into English, and was fo voluminous a writer, that Lubinio Lepus, Bifhop of Prague, burnt two hundred volumes volumes written by this extraordinary perfon, which belonged to fome of the heretical Noblemen of Bohemia. Courtenay, Bishop of London, cited Wickliffe to appear before him at Paul's, to give fome account of the new opinions which he held. Wickliffe came attended by the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl Marshall. The crowd was fo great, that the Lord Marshall was obliged to make use of his authority to get Wickliffe through it. The Bishop, displeased at seeing him fo honourably attended, told the Lord Marshall," that if he "had known beforehand what maestries he would "have kept in the church, he would have stopped "him out from coming there." The Duke of Lancaster, indignant at this threatening language, told the Bishop, "that he would keep fuch "maestries there, though he faid nay." Wickliffe, as ufual, was standing before the Bishop and the rest of the Commiffioners, to hear what things were laid to his charge, when the Lord Marshall defired him to fit down; telling him, that as he had many things to answer to, he had need of a foft feat to be at his eafe. The Bifhop replied, "that he should not fit there; for," added he," it is neither according to law nor "reason, that he who was cited to answer before "his Ordinary (the Lord Pope) fhould fit down during |