^{page 19 note a} The name of the town in the MS. is written Mewes, but, as there is no town of that name on the Loire, and that there is a town “beside Beaujeney” called Meun, which is not unfrequently written in English as Mewen, I have corrected the text. Meun, Mehun, or Meung-sur-Loire, is a small town not far from Orleans, the birth-place of Jean de Meun, surnamed Clopiuel, “parcesqu'il était boiteux,” a poet, who, in the 13th century, completed the Roman de la Rose. (Biog. Univ.) He is also known as the earliest translator into French verse of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophise. (Littéraire, Panthéon, Philosophie Chrétienne, Paris, 1835Google Scholar; and the notice of the author, by Buchon, prefixed.) Both Thomas de Montacute, the brave Earl of Salisbury, who was mortally wounded at the siege of Orleans in 1428, and Charles VII. of France, died at Meun.