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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
There exists in France a Monument which tradition ascribes to the “Flower of English Chivalry,” Sir John Chandos, who fell in a skirmish near the bridge of Lusac in the year 1370. A friend of mine, Major Smith, has lately visited this spot, and from his letter, and some other sources, I have drawn up the following, which through your means I beg leave to submit to the notice of the Society of Antiquaries. The subject seems to me interesting on two accounts; first, from the great celebrity and renown of the hero intended to be commemorated, and next for the peculiarity of the monument itself.
page 486 note a It was usual at this time to make the monument contain the coffin.
page 488 note a It seems to be a canton.
page 488 note b It is also worthy of remark, that in a sculpture over the western door of the ancient church of St. Saturin at Bourdeaux, intended to represent the Day of Judgment, there are coffins carved in a similar form.
page 489 note c Vincent's Chaos. 21.
page 492 note d In all probability Myg, or “the glorious,” some Welshman.
page 493 note e Vol. I. p. 578.
page 494 note f Hence our word Battalion.
page 494 note g Froissart.