corps de logis . The principal part of the building

1. 11. Barbares. The word was used by the Gallo-Romans, as formerly by the Greeks, to dénoté those of non-Roman origin and speech. Hence it was applied to the Franks and other German invaders of Gaul.

Romains. Gallo-Romans, or Romanized Gauls, the inhabitants of Gaul before the Barbarian invasions.

1. 13. truste. Those who formed the band of personal retainers attached to the King (what Tacitus calls comitatus ) were styled antruslions, and trustis was the Latin form of the word denoting their relation to the King. This relation was one of personal fealty and service from the dépendant, of protection and support from the King. In the time of Tacitus ( Germania , c. 14) the kings and principes (elected magistrates) alone had the right of a comitatus. As the kings grew in importance, their dépendants acquired an official position, and replaced the old nobility of blood. For the corresponding development in England see Stubbs, Const. Hist. I., pp. 149 — 158.

Ducange (Glossary, s. v.) and most French writers take trustis to mean fealty, trust, as derived from tratcen to trust. Waitz however

( Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte vol. II. part I. p. 336) says that trustis, though connected with trauen, seems to mean first the united host or armed band (verbundene Schaar), and especially the band of the King’s folio wers.

1. 15. d'autres maisons, &c. It was in the same way that towns often grew up afterwards round feudal castles.

1. 17. métiers , trades; from the L. L. ministerium . Comp. the English mystery, better spelt mistery , in the sense of craft or guild of working men. Thus Spenser:

“And that, which is the noblest mysterie (the profession of a soldier),

Brings to reproach and common infamie”. (Mother Hubbard, 221, 22.)

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