le colportage, *peddling, hawking

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9. courenrB de poTile, * chicken-hunters,' so called from their plundering peasants of their poultry.

14. Arras, the capital of Artois ; celebrated for its tapestries, which were called * arras * from its name.

Sedan. Sedan is still famous for its cloth. It first rose into note in the fifteenth century.

15. Verdun. Verdun, in Lorraine, is still famous for its confectionery.

confisant an miel, *preserving in honey,' or 'making their confectionery with honey.* The dative is used to imply the seasoning in cookery. Eve § 157. Sugar wstô still very dear (see lines 32, 23), and ordinary persons could only afford confectionery made with the cheaper honey.

16. Orléans, one of the chief cities of Central France, on the Loire, Êuxious for its si^e by the English, 1428-9, and relief by Jeanne d'Arc.

17. gants de moufle, *mittens' — really, gloves with a division for the thumb, but none for the fingers.

19. setlers. The seUer (Latin sexiarius) was a measure of capacity, varying with the locality. At Paris it was 12 bushels.

21. de KUan. Plate armour had now replaced the old chainarmour, and the best was manufactured at Milan.

les mauvaises armures, * the inferior armour.' The German armourers never equalled the Milanese.

24. Montpellier, an important city of Southern France, near the Mediterranean. It had belonged to the King of Navarre, but was recovered by the kings of France in the fifteenth century.