Alanus Rebrit is Alan the Great, Rébras or Rébres, 877-907.

Remelinus may be Rivallonus. Two of this name occur: one the brother of Erispoë and father of Salomon, the other the son of Salomon.

Wiganus may be Guego or Wegonus, son of Salomon.

Ilispon is Erispoë, son of Nominoë, killed by Salomon in a church (as Alanus by Wiganus in our story) in 857.

Salomon himself succeeded Erispoë as king of Brittany and was killed in 874. was canonized.

Hoel of Nantes is also historical.

It will be seen that here Alan Rebrit is made to precede Salomon in defiance of history.

197. De Sceua et Ollone. Liebrecht compares a play of Hieronymus Justesen (1476-1577) called Karrig Niding, edited by S. Birket Smith, Copenhagen, 1876. 19724. collarius = a packman, bigarius, a pedlar with a cart.

2001. I take commenta to be accusative after instruere, which also governs

omnes.

20018. Te scio seruum, etc., 'I know you are a slave: possession is a monomania with you', or 'as to owning me, that is sheer madness'.

20410. Menestratem. I cannot see who is meant. There is a Menecrates in Livy, xliv. 24 (and Florus), but he is not a distinguished character.

20425. Usula. Perhaps the alosa which Gesner says is susceptible to music. 205. Appollonides. Possibly Henry II: at any rate a king (of England or France) contemporary with Map. The name illustrates the author's penchant for substituting classical for modern names; cf. Valerius, Ruffinus.

20613,21. The mistakes ante for post and Sarracenis for Francis are very curious, but I do not see that they can be denied.

20710. consilium. . . quia nullius erat negocii. I suppose 'consilium' is here sharply opposed to 'negotium': he was always deliberating and never acted.

21210. cum breui cognicionis: 'breue' is here a brief, a letter or statement; as also in 2177,25.

2135. que tristes alterutrum timores, etc. I now believe that for 'alterutrum ' (which is certainly the text of the MS.) we should read 'alternatim'.

21430. quos inuidia. Read 'quos non inuidia' with the MS.

2211,2. Gurmundi cum Ysembardo. The story of the battle is told by Geoffrey of Monmouth (xi. 8): I owe the reference to M. G. H.

2236,7. Gallerus camerarius is Gautier de Nemours: Bucardus Molosus is Buchard le veautre (1165–79).

225 9 8q4. The story is also told by Giraldus Camb. (de princ. instr. iii. 30, Rolls viii. 317) in these terms: 'In eius namque praesentia de variis regum et imperatorum diuitiis factus sermo quandoque fuit, nulla prorsus de Francorum regno mentione facta.' Greece, Sicily, Spain, Germany, England were discussed... 'Rex ... prorupit "Inter caetera uero regna de Francia quoque nil dicetur?" Statimque subiungens ... "Et nos certe panem" inquit “habemus et vinum et gaudium.”’ Giraldus must have heard it from Map.

2284 899. The accident happened in 1131.

2314 sqq. This story is told rather differently by Giraldus Cambr. (de princ. instr. i. 20,Rolls, viii. 135).

23221. penetrans: read 'pertransiens' or 'preteriens'.

232 22 899. Giraldus (1.c. iii. 30, Rolls viii. 322 sqq.) tells this and also

another vision.

23730. preferens: read 'perferens' with the MS.

23731. quasi duplomate (utens). I add 'utens' on the strength of two passages in Peter of Blois, viz. Ep. 52 'Dominus Rex in Guasconiam tendit, ego autem diplomate utens eum e uestigio sequor'; Ep. 59 'ad nos in eadem tempestatis insania diplomate utens remeauit.' Budaeus's note explains the phrase: Unde fit ut diplomata vocati sint illi codicilli qui dabantur cursoribus ut liceret eis uti equis et vehiculis publicis. Nostrates vocant postes,' etc.

23830. regem ytalie, i. e. Conrad, son of the emperor Henry IV, d. July 27, 1101. 2391. paupera communia. Read ' pauper a'.

2419 894. The murder took place in 1192: but the victim was not Boniface but Conrad. Boniface succeeded, and lived till 1207.

24216. Turstinus filius. Dr. J. H. Round, in The King's Serjeants, &c., 1911, p. 192, supplies the word 'Simonis' after filius, giving evidence which completely proves the addition to be right. In 1. 23 he prefers 'ad scannum': this also is very likely right; though I think 'stancium' is the reading of the MS. Dr. Round also points out that Adam of Yarmouth was a justice in eyre in 1169 and 1173 and that Thurstan fil. Simonis was similarly employed in 1173 and had for a colleague Walter Map himself.

24312 sqq. The date was 1182. Cf. Gesta Henrici II, ed. Stubbs, i. 291. The text there says 1183: the year presumably began at Christmas.

2479. Eswaella. Most likely Ashwell in Herts., which was then in the Lincoln diocese.

24816,17. sue quondam prebende canonicus... Lundoniis. The words 'sue quondam preb.' mean of the prebend once held by Geoffrey'. It was the prebend of Mapesbury in the cathedral church of St. Paul. The printed authorities differ

somewhat as to the date at which Map acquired it. Dugdale's Hist. of St. Paul's (ed. 1818, p. 259) says that Walter Map occurs' as a prebendary about 1150 ' The Dict. Nat. Biog. gives 1176 as the date, referring to Le Neve's Fasti, ii. 82, 406. Le Neve, however, only refers to Liber L. f. 57' (a register now at St. Paul's).

It is, I suppose, the fact that Map gave his name to the prebend: the alternative form Maplebury does not seem to have much authority. The 'corps' of the prebend is in the parish of Willesden: the manor house was near Kilburn.

Causa excidii Cartaginensium.

2511819. As is noted on p. 5 the paragraphs dealing with Tityus, the Danaids, Cerberus, and Charon doubtless contain portions of the lost text of Dist. I. vi-ix. 25320. The Spanish dispute was in 1177. Cf. Gir. Cambr. de princ. instr. (Rolls, viii. 159, 218). Appendix, p. 260. This story is in the same hand as the de Nugis. Another copy is in a Cotton MS., Vespasian E. xii. I do not know what is intended by the name of the supposed writer Flaccensius. The matter of the story reminds one of that told of the Venerable Bede interpreting certain letters, P. P. P. S. S. S. &c., inscribed on a monument, when he visited Rome. In recognition of his acumen the Pope (or the Roman people) conferred the title of Venerable upon him. The story is told e.g. from Radulphus Remington by John Caius, de antiq. Cantebr. acad. lib. i, p. 104.

The Cotton MS. is of the fifteenth century, early. Mr. J. A. Herbert, of the department of Manuscripts, has kindly examined it for me. The variants are slight and unimportant.