[23] Comptes des Frères Bonis, Marchands de Montauban, publié par M. Edouard M. Forestier, 1890, p. ccx.
[24] Châtelet, ii. 509: “They took the bed, pulled the straw out of it, threw it in the chimney, and set fire to it.”
[25] Thorold Rogers, History, i. 13.
[26] See Vaissière, Gentilshommes Campagnards de l’Ancienne France; see also Thorold Rogers, History of Prices, i. 13. See ibid., inventory of John Senekworth’s effects, for the furniture of a Cambridgeshire manor in 1314. We notice six sheets, a mattress, a coverlet, a counterpane, a “banker” or stuffed cushion for a bench, three cushions, three table-cloths and two napkins, two drinking glasses, four silver spoons, basin and ewer, two silver seals, and three books of romance!
[27] Douët d’Arcq, ii. 139. 6.
[28] Joubert, La Vie Privée en Anjou.
[29] Léopold Delisle, L’Agriculture Normande, p. 189.
[30] Régistres du Châtelet for 1392, i. 174.
[31] Ibid., 427.
[32] Ibid., 526.