15.
******* Rymer, vol.vii.p.

526.

This paper, by the style, seems to have been drawn by the Scots, and was signed by the wardens of the marches only.
There are Spanish papers in that collection of more ancient date:[*] and the use of the Latin and French still continued.

We may judge of the ignorance of this age in geography, from a story told by Robert of Avesbury.

Pope Clement VI having, in 1344, created Lewis of Spain prince of the Fortunate Islands, meaning the Canaries, then newly discovered, the English ambassador at Rome and his retinue were seized with an alarm, that Lewis had been created king of England; and they immediately hurried home, in order to convey this important intelligence.