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 us. HI. JAN. 28, MIL] NOTES AND QUERIES.

GTJICHARD D' ANGLE (US. ii. 427, 472, 493). In the ' Vie et Gestes du Prince Noir ' he is mentioned at least five times. I refer to " Le Prince Noir Poeme du Heraufc

d'armes Chandos The Life & Feats of

Arms of Edward the Black Prince by Chandos Herald a Metrical Chronicle with English Translation and Notes by Fran- cisque-Michel. London & Paris 1883."

In the description of the army of the King of France before the battle of Poitiers, Chandos the Herald speaks of " a body of four hundred armed horses, with four hundred knights upon them, all of the noblest escutcheon."

Guychard d'Angle les conduisoit,

Qui noble chivaler estoit. Line 1040.

He appears to have been associated in his command with le Sieur d'Augebugny and Eustace de Ribemont.

In the early part of the battle

Atant veissez venir poignant

Un chivaler preu et vaillant

Qui appelez fut Guychard d'Angle.

Cil ne se boutoit pas en Tangle,

Ains feroit parmy le mestee,

Sachez, de lance et de esp^e.

Line 1192.

(In other instances " veissez " is " veissez," with an accent.)

" Then might you see coming spurring on a preux and valiant knight,"Guichard d'Angle by name, who did not put himself in a corner, but struck with lance and sword, know you, amidst the metee."

Later Guichard d'Angle, having joined the English, appears in the vanguard led by the Duke of Lancaster, when the army was marching into Navarre on its way to Spain :

Et 1'autre le bon Guychard d'Angle,

Qui ne doit estre mis en Tangle,

Ainz est bien droit que horn s'en remorge.

Line 2283.

" The other the good Guichard d'Angle, who must not be put in a corner, but is it right that men should remember him."

Probably "is it " means " it is." " The other " means the other of the two marshals, the first mentioned being Stephen de Cosinton.

The next extract comes from the descrip- tion of the battle of Najera. Speaking of those who were on the right of the Duke of Lancaster, Chandos Herald says : Et la fut le bon Guychard d'Angle, Qui ne se tenoit pas en Tangle. Ovesque li ot ses deux filtz.

Line 3233.

" And there was the good Guichard d'Angle, who kept not in the background. His two sons he had with him."

He is mentioned again, among the chief officers of the " right noble Prince, whilst he held the province of Aquitaine " :

Monsieur Gwichard d'Angle fut mareschal.

Line 4193.

Estephen (sic) de Cosinton apparently wa& co -marshal.

I have given the true numbers of the lines. In the Errata is the following : " In the numeration of the marginal figures for 1. 2890 read 2860, and so on till the end." There is, p. 332, a note as to line 1040 : " Guichard d'Angle, sire de Pleumartin, and in 1350, seneschal of Saintonge. He was present at the engagement with the English at Saint-Jean- d'Angely in 1346, and was taken before the same town in 1351, and carried to England. After his release at the end of the following year, he was constantly engaged against the English, until his capture at Poitiers. After this he joined the side of England, in 1363 was appointed by the Black Prince marshal of Aquitaine, and in such capacity ordered the following year to levy the revenues in the dukedom. (Rot. Vase., 38 Ed. III., membr. 4 : Rymer, vol. iii. p. 726, cf. p. 801.) He fought gallantly at Najera 1367. By an entry dated February 19, 1341 (n. st.), Charles V. gave to Geoffroy de la Celle, knight, 60 pounds torneses of land in Touraine on the estates forfeited of Guichard d'Angle, ' chevalier rebelle.' (Archives Nat., JJ. 102, no. 182.) In 1372.be was elected into the order of the Garter, and at the coronation of Richard II. was rewarded with the earldom of Huntingdon and 100 marks per annum for the support of the dignity. He died in the spring of 1380."

According to the preface (p. xvi), Chandos probably wrote his poem in 13 86, or perhaps a year or two earlier.

Francisque-Michel in his preface (p. vi) quotes from an " account drawn up by indefatigable John Anstis, Garter King at Arms," among his papers deposited in the Heralds' College :

" Chandos was the herald of the famous Sir John Chandos, constable of Aquitaine."

ROBERT PIERPOINT. [See the note on Sir John Chandos, ante, p. 25.]

ISAAC JAMINEAU (11 S. ii. 509). He was appointed Consul at Naples at the date given by G. F. R. B. (2 July, 1753), and apparently held that office till August, 1779, when he was succeeded by James Douglas. He died 3 November, 1789. I have been unable to find his name among the officials of the Post Office in the various issues of the ' Royal Kalendar ' between 1779 and his death. ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Jamineau wrote a paper * On the late Eruption of Mount Vesuvius,' which appeared in The Transactions of the Philo- sophical Society, x. 563, 1755. W. S. S.