^{page vii note 1} See Davies, J. Conway, The baronial opposition to Edward II (Cambridge, 1918), pp. 336–41Google Scholar.

^{page vii note 2} Cal. Close Rolls 1323–7, p. 629 ; Exchequer K.R., Accounts Various 332/27 : ‘ Ceste endenture tesmoigne qe le xxv jour de Marcz, Ian du regne le roy Edward tierz apres le conqueste primier Johan de Wymondeswold, clerk' nostre dit seignur le roy ad livere al honurable piere en Dieu H. par la grace de Dieu evesqe de Nicole, tresorer nostre dit seignur le roy del escheker et as chaumberleyns de meisme lescheker' les parceles desouz escrites en xvj roules endentez par bref nostre dit seignur le roy attache a ceste endenture, les queux feurent a sire Hugh' le Despenser le fuiz … (last membrane) … Item, une bage de canevas contenaunte diverses remembraunces tuchauntz nostre seignur le roy des auns xv^me, xvj^me, xvij^me et xviij^me ensele du seal mons' Johan de Beek’. Item, une bage de canevas contenaunte diverses remembraunces tuchauntz la guerre de Gascoigne lan xviij^me ensele du seal Hugh' le Despenser le fuiz. Item, une bage de canevas en la quele sount xj roules des countresummes del hostel le roy lan xviij^me et iij roulles et iij escrouetz tuchauntz Gascoigne … ’

^{page vii note 3} Most of these letters are found in Anc. Corr. XLVIII-LI and LVIII.

^{page vii note 4} Cotton MS., Caligula D III ; Cotton. Ch. xvi, 59.

^{page viii note 1} Below, nos, 119, 138, 147 etc.

^{page viii note 2} J. Conway Davies, op. cit., p. 339.

^{page viii note 3} Below, no. 147.

^{page viii note 4} Below, nos. 52, 122, 126, etc.

^{page viii note 5} Insertions of names by the recipient have been italicized in the text.

^{page viii note 6} British Museum, Add. MS. 7967 ; Add. MS. 17363 is the controller's book of the same; see also Add. MS. 26891.

^{page ix note 1} The purpose of this note is not to supersede but supplement on a few vital points various excellent monographs printed in the course of the last 200 years : L.G.O. de Bréquigny, F., Mémoire sur les différends entre la France et l'Angleterre sous Charles-le-Bel, in Mémoires de l' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, xli (1780), 641–92Google Scholar, and reprinted in Leber, C., Collection des meilleures dissertations … relatifs à l' histoire de France, xviii (Paris, 1830), 366–442Google Scholar ; Devic, C. and Vaissete, J. J., Histoire générale de Languedoc, ix (Toulouse, 1885), 432–6Google Scholar ; Petit, J., Charles de Valois (Paris, 1900), pp. 207–17Google Scholar ; de la Ronciére, C., Histoire de la marine française, i (Paris, 1899), p. 382Google Scholar.

^{page ix note 2} See Déprez, E., Les préliminaires de la guerre de Cent Ans (Paris, 1902), p. 14Google Scholar.

^{page ix note 3} See English Historical Review, xli. 414–5.

^{page ix note 4} Below, p. 176.

^{page ix note 5} Below, pp. 176–7.

^{page ix note 6} Below, pp. 179–80.

^{page ix note 7} Below, p. 183.

^{page ix note 8} Petit, Charles de Valois, p. 209 ; Guérard, Louis, Documents pontificaux sur la Gascogne, ii (Paris, 1903), nos. 196–203 and notesGoogle Scholar ; Pipe Roll 183, m. 58 ; Anc. Corr. XLII, no. 10, etc.

^{page ix note 9} Chancery Diplomatic Documents 29/9/6.

^{page x note 1} G. P. Cuttino, The Gascon Calendar of 1322 (Camden Third Series, lxx), no. 1893.

^{page x note 2} Rymer, Foedera, i(ii), 571.

^{page x note 3} This argument was used by the French commissioners at Périgueux on 19 June 1311 (Exchequer Diplomatic Documents 1306 ; Cotton. MS., Julius E. I, fo. 318d).

^{page x note 4} Chancery Diplomatic Documents 29/9/20, partly printed in Langlois, C. V., Rouleaux d'arréts de la cour du roi au XIII^e siécle (Paris, 1889), p. 56Google Scholar.

^{page x note 5} Chancery Diplomatic Documents 29/9/20 : ‘ … In arrestis vero curia dicit per arrestum et non unus ex presidentibus secundum solitum modum curie supradicte … ’

^{page xi note 1} Above, p. x, n. 3; Chancery Diplomatic Documents 29/9/17.

^{page xi note 2} Boutaric, , Actes du Parlement de Paris, ii (Paris, 1867), nos. 5466, 6498, 6980Google Scholar.

^{page xi note 3} Ancient Petitions 13303 : ‘ … Item, significant quod gentes domini regis Francie nituntur facere novam pupulacionem in loco Sancti Sacerdotis posito in medio terre Agennesii, qui locus, quamquam dicatur habere juridiccionem, tamen subest racione ressorti cohercioni et juridiccioni senescalli Agennesii et in ipso loco senescallus ipse ressortitur. Quare, si hec pupulacio fieri paciatur in loco predicto, terra Agennesii amittitur, quia omnes aut quasi ipsius terre ad ipsum locum confluent propter privilegia que habitantibus per dominum regem Francie in ipso loco concedentur et officialibus terre Agennesii et subjectis hobedientibus eisdem quamplurima gravamina et vituperia inferentur. Super quibus provideat magestas regia de remedio competenti… ’

^{page xi note 4} See below, no. 26.

^{page xi note 5} Below, p. 186.

^{page xi note 6} Below, Appendix II, no. 2.

^{page xi note 7} Below, no. 9 and p. 186.

^{page xi note 8} Below, p. 8, n. 2.

^{page xii note 1} Below, p. 8, n. 2.

^{page xii note 2} Below, no. 1 ; Gascon Roll 35, m. 8.

^{page xii note 3} Gascon Roll 35, m. 8.

^{page xii note 4} Below, p. 179.

^{page xii note 5} Below, no. 6.

^{page xii note 6} Below, pp. 180–1.

^{page xii note 7} Below, nos. 4, 5, 9.

^{page xii note 8} Below, no. 7.

^{page xii note 9} Below, no. 10.

^{page xii note 10} Below, no. 14.

^{page xii note 11} Below, no. 28.

^{page xiii note 1} Below, nos. 22, 25.

^{page xiii note 2} Below, p. 187.

^{page xiii note 3} Below, pp. 182–4.