Impossible à conduire, *unmanageable

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

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

Ti. J'en trouverai, <I'll find something.' En hère refers to property generally.

18. estafiem, *underlings'; from the Italian staffa^ *a stirrup.' It was used of the servants who ran beside the horse of their master; hence for any attendant, and generally with a contemptuous meaning.

37. les routiem. A name given to the bands of mercenaries and plunderers who infested the hîgh roads, especially afler a war. They were very nunierous in the i5th century.

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