PREMIÈRE PARTIE. NOTES

1. 13. à celles, The guilds are referred to. So the English government to assemble a fleet had to appeal to the Cinque Ports.

1. 19. droit if aubaine t a barbarous mediaeval custom by which the sovereign took the goods of any stranger dying in his dominions.

1. 23. basoche t or bazocAe, an organisation of the lawyers* clerks of Paris and other towns, which acquired some importance. The dérivation of the Word is obscuret and is generally referred to the Greek, paffiXiK'^i, a court of justice.

de la gabelle^ **from among the collectors of the salt-tax.** The Word gabelle hère dénotes the officiais who managed the gabelle,