News, Noise

I think it will be found that MR. HICKSON is misinformed as to the fact of the employment of the Norman French word *noise*, in the French sense, in England. *Noyse*, *noixe*, *noas*, or *noase*, (for I have met with each form), meant then quarrel, dispute, or, as a school-boy would say, a row. It was derived from *noxia*. Several authorities agree in these points. In the *Histoire de Foulques Fitz-warin*, Fouque asks "Quei fust *la noyse* qe fust devaunt le roi en la sale?" which with regard to the context can only be fairly translated by "What is going on in the King's hall?" For his respond…