_Meaning of Bacon_ (Vol. ii., pp. 138. 247.).--As, on reconsideration, I
perceive there is some doubt as to the meaning of the word _bacons_ in
Foulques Fitzwarin, I send you the passage in which it occurs, that your
readers may form their own opinion concerning it:--
"Pus après, furent les portes de le chastel, qe treblées erent, ars e
espris par feu que fust illumée de bacons e de grece."
I must in addition add, that I was mistaken as to the meaning of
_hosebaunde_, which was possibly only the French mode of writing husband.