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than I can pretend to be several problem,, relative to the episodes dealt with between lines 2390 and 3090, including specially the personalities and exploits of Sir Florent anc Sir Priamus, and the determination of the bearer of the arms described in lines 2521-4 : He bare gessenande in golde thre grayhondes of sable, With chapes a cheynes of chalke whyte sylver, A charebocle in the cheefe chawngande of hewes, And a cheefe anterous ; chalange who lykes.

The adventure described in 11. 2464-77, where the drawbridge falls, suggests, however in- distinctly, the risky encounter of Edward III. with Geoffrey de Charnai near Calais in 1349, but the elements recognizable, scarcely estab- lish the identification. All tuat is claimed so far is that so many and so pointedly appli- cable to Jeanne de Montfort and Charles of Blois are the allusions of which historical interpretations are given above, that they not only exclude the possibility of accidental coincidence, but can be accounted for on no other basis than mine. And if doubt re- mained it would be enough to urge that where Crecy is, and Wiuchelsea, and the arraignment of Mortimer, there can be no difficulty whatever in welcoming Jeanne de Montfort as a heroic figure in a neroic poem written not without a distinct political pur- pose of glorification of her "cousin" King Edward III. and his Table Round. Oppor- tunely we may call to mind that this valiant countess had her feats celebrated in song of her own time. Jehan le Bel (ii. 11, 18) falls foul of one of these works, " ung livre rime que ung jongleur a fait," which was too imaginative to serve as a safe guide to history. Jeanne de Montfort, indeed, has, both in our island and in France, been an inspiration of history, of art, and of romance.

GEO. NEILSON.

DR. JOHN BOND.

UNDER the heading 'Bond, John, LL.D. (1612-1676), Puritan Divine,' in the 'D.N.B.,' v. 340, two distinct persons are confused viz.,

1. John Bond, LL.D., Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

2. John Bond, Puritan divine, Master of the Savoy Hospital.

This is a time-honoured confusion, coun- tenanced by Wood's ' Athenae Oxon.,' ii. 115-18 (Bliss), by Ward's ' Lives of Gresham Pro- fessors ' (1740), p. 247, and by Hutchins's Hist, of Dorset,' i. 603 (ed. 1861). The ' D N.B.' followed these authorities. But the House of Commons' ' Journals ' show that a mistake has been made.

" John Bond, LL.D.," 'sat in the Long Par- liament, as a member for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis borough (' Return of Mem bers,' i. 488), being elected under the writ issued upon the order made by the House on 25 Sept., 1645 ('Journals,' iv. 286). On

26 March, 1646, the House resolved (ibid., 489), "That this House doth approve of the election

of John Bond, Doctor of the Civil Law, a member of this House, to be Master of Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge."

"Dr. John Bond," the member, was on the " Committee of Lords and Commons to ad- judge and determine scandalous offences," appointed by an ordinance, dated 5 June, 1646, for the settling "of the Presbyteriall Government in the Church of England " (printed London, 1646); see ' Journals,' iv. 562. He was, presumably, the "Dr. John Bond who was recorder of Weymouth, his Parlia- mentary constituency, in Sept., 1646 (Hist. MSS. Com., Rep. V., App., pp 587-8 ; see also Hutchins's ' Dorset,' ii. 440).

John Bond, the Puritan divine, preached before the House of Commons at church on

27 March, 1644 ; 22 Aug., 1645 ; 19 July and 7 Sept., 1648; 11 July and 5 Nov., 1649; 26 July, 1650; and 26 Aug., 1651. On each occasion the House ordered one or two members* to give thanks from the House to "Mr. Bond" for his sermon, and usually requested that the sermon should be printed ('Journals,' iii. 439; iv. 252; v. 640; vi. 10, 261, 318, 447 ; vii. 6). The preacher evidently was not a member of the House, and he seems to be distinguished in the 'Journals' from John Bond, LL.D., by his plainer title of " Mr." In one place ('Journals,' v. 633) he is styled "Mr. Bond, Master of the Savoye." As to the appointment of "Mr. Bond" to the Savoy for his life in December, 1645, see 'Journals,' iv. 167, 372, 385, 389.

While he was Master of the Savoy the preacher made a lease, "in trust for his wife," of the .manors of Dengie, Essex, and

arstang, Lancashire, which belonged to the nospital. In 1660 Parliament apparently refused to confirm this lease, and " Mr. Bond " was referred to as " the late pretended Master of the Savoy" (Hist. MSS. Com., Rep. VII., App., p. 131). No marriage by " John Bond, LL.D.," is mentioned in the pedigree of Bond 'ri Hutchins's 'Dorset,' i. 603.

According to that pedigree, "John Bond, LL.D.," died in 1676. Possibly "the late Dretended Master of the Savoy" was dead n 1660. At any rate, it is clear that before

The "Mr. Bond" who was sometimes ordered M give the thanks was, presumably, Dennis Bond, M.P. for Dorchester (' D.N.J3.,' v. 337).