le petit peuple^ "the mob

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1. 3. muidsy from the Lat. modiusy a measore of varyîng capacity. The mùid of corn was about 50 bushels.

l. 6» charges de marée^ "caigoes of fresh fish." Fi«sh sea-fish is cailed marée or' ^*tide^^* to distingulsh it from rîver-fish and dried or salted fish.

1. 8. à la criée du Châtelet: "at the Châtelet auction." There was a market round the Châtelet, a building where law-courts sat.

1. 22. r oriflamme. The oriflamme was the banner of the Abbey of

St Denis. It was originally carried by the Counts of the Vexin as protectors of the Abbey, and passed to the French^crown with the Vexin. The oriflamme thus became the royal banner. The inglorîous mention of it heFe is the last time it appeacs in history* L 26. son autnânier^ Balue, afterwards Cardinal*

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1. 24. Us Liégeois, Liège was under a Prince-Bishop, but surrounded by the Buigundian territory, and had often been subdued by the Dukes of Burgundy. The inhabrtants, numerous and turbulent, were constantly strivin^ to shake off the Burgundian supremacy.

1. 30. V ancien royaume d^ Aquitaine* Under the Franks, Aquitaine stretched from the Pyrénées almost to the Loire.

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