Note 5 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
These petitions are taken from a large and valuable collection translated by Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith and contributed to the Collectanea (Third Series) of the Oxford Historical Society. They are copied substantially as she gives them; but curiously enough the accomplished lady stumbles over the word "brais," for which she proposes "arms" as the translation, evidently thinking of bras and quite forgetting that braies is the French for "breeches."