où vous puissiez donner, in which you can be caught

1. 38. tailles ; the name taille was applied since the thirteenth century to the dues paid either in money or in kind by the vassal to the lord ; it arose from the circumstance that the collectors used to eut {tailler) notches on pièces of wood (comp. the Eng. tally) as memoranda of the sums received.

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1. I. la pi'cscance: a dispute about precedence took place between the French and Spanish ambassadors at the English court, in i66r, in which the Spaniards had to give way : see above, vol. i. p. 88.

le pape : the attendants of the Duc de Créqui, ambassador at the Papal court, had engaged in a quarrel with the Papal guard, in which some of them had been killed. The Pope was forced to make réparation : see above, vol. I. p. 89.

faire satisfaction, in 1664.

Dunkerqne: Dunkirk, taken by the English in 1657 during the war between England and Spain, was sold by Charles II to Louis XIV in 1662 ; see above, vol. i. p. 91.

1. 3. pour le vendeur^ Charles II, King of England. The sale of Dunkirk (1662) has been considered, says Hume, one of the greatest blemishes and mistakes of the reign of Charles II.

1. 7. légat a latere, a legate sent specially " from the side " of the Pope : see above, vol. i. p. 90.

1. 20. Oîi traita ôr'c.: the Genoese had ventured to sell powder and shot to the Algerians when the latter were at war with France. Genoa was at once bombarded, and the Doge compelled to come in person to ask pardon of the King : see above, vol. ii. p. 7.

1. 29. monsieur le Prince, i, e. the Prince de Condé, enjoying the title as being of the royal family, descended from the brother of Henry IV.

1. 30. les pairs: the " peers " of France, originally the six or seven greater feudal nobles of France, had become much more numerous in later times. AU the princes of the blood royal, and a good many others were peers. They sat in the royal council with the présidents of the différent divisions of the Parlement of Paris, and claimed precedence in giving their verdicts, when a case came before them.

1. 34. lits de justice. On ail this litigation, see Saint-Simon's memoirs, X. 412 and foll. The name lit de justice was given to the assemblies of the Parliament presided over by the King in person for the purpose of co7npelling the registration of certain edicts.

1. 39. des casaques bleîies, bi'odées d'' or et d'' argent. Thèse were called justaucorps à brevet ; they conferred the privilège of free access to the king's présence.

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1. 2. le collier de r ordre, the collar of the order of the Holy Ghost.