n en Ait de même dn, ' it was the same with

prévôt. This was a name given to magistrates of many ktnds. Hère it would mean the local judge, appointed by royal authority, but under the influence of the lord of the manor.

31. notaire. The notary in France had to draw up and register certain légal documenfs, and would thus be charged with looking after the family papers of the castle.

lui fiaixe retirer, 'have...taken away from him.' Hère lui is the indirect object after retirer, not ^J^ex faire. See Eve § 115 Obs. 4.

33. 8*en reyenait. Hère en, though not translatée!, has its natural meaning of ' from it,' i.e. from the place where the person spoken of had been. Eve § 14a (4).

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3. moine de Baint-FtançciB, *Franciscan monk.' The Friars Minor, or Franciscans, are an order established in 1208 by Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 — 1126), which aflerwards spread over ail Western Europe.

9. missel, *a missaP or mass-book, from the Latin missa. The monk*s water bottle was apparently shaped like a book.

10. d'où yenez-yous donc ainsi 7 * what brings you hère ? ' literally, 'whence do you then come thus?*

15. Auriez-yons. The conditional is hère used in a polite question. See Eve § 178 (i).

1 7. mais Uen pour mon ooosta Jehan, ' but for my cousin Jehan, yes,* literally, *but indeed for my cousin Jehan.'

23. l'on eût dit, *you would hâve said it was.' This is the apodosis of a conditional sentence, of which the protasis is understood, * if one had called it anything.' The pluperfect subjunctive is used hère instead of the past conditional, See Eve § 278 Obs. i.

24. désarçonné, 'unhorsed,' literally, *unsaddled,' arçon being the saddle-bow. In a toumament it was the greatest possible defeat for a knight to be borne out of the saddle by his opponent's lance.

25. Angers, the chief town of Anjou, and an important dty of France in the Middle Ages.

il en ayait la rage au cœur, ' he was maddened by it,' literally, * he had madness at the heart with regard to it.'

29. fonrdies, ' gallows,' from the Latin furcae, the gallows being shaped like a fork.

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1. le cœnr Ini point, literally, ' his heart pricks,' and thus, * he is enraged.' Note the dative to dénote the person, when speaking of a part of the body. Eve § 145 a.

2. à la longueur, *within reach.' The dative hère is used for distance. Eve § 152 Obs. 2.