and bondsman.
 
41 A lawful freeman.
 
42 The notes upon the bugles were anciently called mots, and are distinguished
in the old treatises on hunting, not by musical characters, but by written
words.
 
43 The interchange of a cuff with the jolly priest is not entirely out of
character with Richard I., if romances read him aright. In the very curious
romance on the subject of his adventures in the Holy Land, and his return from
thence, it is recorded how he exchanged a pugilistic favour of this nature,
while a prisoner in Germany. His opponent was the son of his principal warder,
and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. The
King stood forth like a true man, and received a blow which staggered him. In
requital, having previously waxed his hand, a practice unknown, I believe, to
the gentlemen of the modern fancy, he returned the box on the ear with such
interest as to kill his antagonist on the spot. - See, in Ellis's Specimens of
English Romance, that of Coeur-de-Lion.
 
44 A commissary is said to have received similar consolation from a certain
commander-in-chief, to whom he complained that a general officer had used some
such threat towards him as that in the text.
 
45 Borghs, or borrows, signifies pledges. Hence our word to borrow because we
pledge ourselves to restore what is lent.
 
46 Dortour, or dormitory.
 
47 It is curious to observe, that in every state of society, some sort of
ghostly consolation is provided for the members of the community, though
assembled for purposes diametrically opposite to religion. A gang of beggars
have their Patrico, and the banditti of the Apennines have among them persons
acting as monks and priests, by whom they are confessed, and who perform mass
before them. Unquestionably, such reverend persons, in such a society, must
accommodate their manners and their morals to the community in which they live;
and if they can occasionally obtain a degree of reverence for their supposed
spiritual gifts, are, on most occasions, loaded with unmerciful ridicule, as
possessing a character inconsistent with all around them.
Hence the fighting parson in the old play of Sir John Oldcastle, and the famous
friar of Robin Hood's band. Nor were such characters ideal. There exists a
monition of the Bishop of Durham against irregular churchmen of this class, who
associated themselves with Border robbers, and desecrated the holiest offices of
the priestly function, by celebrating them for the benefit of thieves, robbers,
and murderers, amongst ruins and in