e juice of mulberries;
Pigment was a sweet and rich liquor, composed of wine highly spiced, and
sweetened also with honey; the other liquors need no explanation. L. T.]

[Footnote 14: There was no language which the Normans more formally separated
from that of common life than the terms of the chase. The objects of
their pursuit, whether bird or animal, changed their name each year, and
there were a hundred conventional terms, to be ignorant of which was to
be without one of the distinguishing marks of a gentleman. The reader
may consult Dame Juliana Berners' book on the subject. The origin of
this science was imputed to the celebrated Sir Tristrem, famous for his
tragic intrigue with the beautiful Ysolte. As the Normans reserved the
amusement of hunting strictly to themselves, the terms of this formal
jargon were all taken from the French language.]

[Footnote 15: In those days the Jews were subjected to an Exchequer, specially
dedicated to that purpose, and which laid them under the most exorbitant
impositions.--L. T.]

[Footnote 16: This sort of masquerade is supposed to have occasioned the
introduction of supporters into the science of heraldry.]

[Footnote 17: These lines are part of an unpublished poem, by Coleridge, whose
Muse so often tantalizes with fragments which indicate her powers, while
the manner in which she flings them from her betrays her caprice,
yet whose unfinished sketches display more talent than the laboured
masterpieces of others.]

[Footnote 18: This term of chivalry, transferred to the law, gives the phrase of
being attainted of treason.]

[Footnote 19: Presumption, insolence.]

[Footnote 20: "Beau-seant" was the name of the Templars' banner, which was half
black, half white, to intimate, it is said, that they were candid and
fair towards Christians, but black and terrible towards infidels.]

[Footnote 21: There was nothing accounted so ignominious among the Saxons as to
merit this disgraceful epithet. Even William the Conqueror, hated as he
was by them, continued to draw a considerable army of Anglo-Saxons to
his standard, by threatening to stigmatize those who staid at home, as
nidering. Bartholinus, I think, mentions a similar phrase which had like
influence on the Danes. L. T.]

[Footnote 22: The Jolly Hermit.--All readers, however slightly acquainted with
black letter, must recognise in the Clerk of Copmanhurst, Friar Tuck,
the buxom Confessor of Robin Hood's gang, the Curtal Fri