feux, hearths, i.e. families

5. Ostende, Ostend, now a noted port and watering-place about 40 miles S.W. of Middelbourg.

6. fourches patibulaires, forked gibbets, used in exécutions.

Page 177. — i. romanesque, romantic in the literary sensé. 2. donna du cor, sounded his horn.

Page 178. — i. faucon sur son poing. Falcons were trained to perch on the wrist till loosed to catch birds or small ground game.

2. Louvain, in the Middle Ages capital of Brabant. Its university was founded in 1426.

Page 180. — 1. Pater . . . Ave (Latin), first words of the Lord's Prayer and of the Angelic Salutation (St. Luke i, 28).