taille * * vingtieme. Names of various taxes

taille, villain-tax, poll-tax.

taillon, tallage.

aides, aids.

sou pour livre, additional (ax.

Capitation, capitation.

Tingtiemes, laud-tax of the twentieth.

Cf. for a similar enumeration Scott's Heart of Midlothian, • hap. VIII: "This was a tough true blue Presbyterian called Deans, who, though most obnoxious to the Laird on account of principles in church and state, contrived to maintain his ground upon the estate by regular payment of mail-duties, kain, arriage, carriage, dry multure, lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and all the various exactions now commuted for money and summed up in the emphatic word RENT."

Pag*4 137. — 1. bel air, fashionable.

Page L5*>. 1. fetes mobiles, moveable feasts. 2. un de nos beaux-esprits, the reference is to Fontenelle; see (5, note 2.

Page 139. — 1. begue; Louis le Begue ("Stammerer"), a son of ( harks the Bald and fifth successor of Charlemagne; born 846, King 877 S79.

Page 140. 1. Clodion le Chevelu, Clodion Longhair, King of the Franks about 430 A. 1).

Page 141. 1. vaudevilles, here comic son,

2. Ann£e litt£raire, a journal edited by Voltain 'a • Demy Freron (1719 '776).

3. La Fare (1614 1 71 2) ; Chaulieu ( 1639-1 720) ; Comte d'Hamilton (1646 1720; I. P. Sarrasin (1005-1654); Voiture ( 1 59S 1648); all celebrated wits and authors of light bo< Lety verse, etc.

Page 11-. I. aux genoux, ,// the feet of.

I'aj.r<' WW. 1. un theatin, theatin, one of a monastic order of regular clerlu founded at Rome in 1524, with the purpose of combating the Reformation.

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