taille * * yinsti^in^. Names of various taxes

taill«, villain-tax, poll-tax,

taillon, tallage.

aides, aids,

sou pour lirre, additional tax,

capitation, capitation,

Tingti^mes, land-tax of the twentieth,

Cf. for a similar enumeration Scott*s Heart of Midlothian, Chap. 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."

Pagre 187. — I. bel ^vl^ fashionable,

Pagre 188.— I. fStes mobiles, moveable feasts. 2. un de nos beauz-esprits, the reference is to Fontenelle; see page 95, note 2.

Pagre 189. — i. bfegue; Louis le B^gue ("Stammerer"), a son of Charles the Bald and fifth successor of Charlemagne ; born 846, King 877-879.

Pagre 140. — i. Clodion le Chevelu, Clodion Longhair, King of the Franks about 430 A. D.

Page 141. — I. vaudevilles, here comic songs,

2. Ann^ litt^raire, a journal edited by Voltaire's enemy Fr^ron (1719-1776).

3. La Fare (161 4-1 7 12); Chaulieu (1639-1720); Comte d'Hamilton(i 646-1 720); J. — P. Sarrasin (1605-1654); Voiture (1598-1648); all celebrated wits and authors of light society verse, etc.

Page 142. — i. auz genouz, at the feet of.

Page 143. — i. un thdatin, theatin, one of a monastic order of regular clerks founded at Rome in 1524, with the purpose of combating the Reformation.