I . impo88iUe à conduire, * anmanageable

7. sergents, -'bailiffs,' used for those officiais who exécute seizures for debt, &c. The term now used in French is huissiers.

8. nn ronge denier. The denier (denarius) was a small copper coin, hence called 'red* from the colour of the métal, to distinguish it from the old silver penny (denarius). The English phrase 'a brass farthing* or the American *a red cent* imply extrême povertyin the same way.

II. j'en trouverai, 'l'U find something.' En hère refers to property generally.

18. estaflers, 'underlîngs'; from the Italian j/a^, *astirrup.' It was used of the servants who ran beside the horse of their master; hence for any attendant, and generally with a contemptuous meaning.

i*j, les routiers. A name given to the bands of mercenaries and plunderers who infested the high roads, espedally after a war. They were very numerous in the i5th century.

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