[43] Bonis.
[44] Joubert, p. 60. But see especially for this subject the masterly passage of M. Léopold Delisle, L’Agriculture Normande au Moyen Age, p. 175, et seq.
[45] It will be remembered that in the Third Order of St. Francis special provision is made for laymen who can read, evidently a considerable class.
[46] Registres du Châtelet, ii. 103.
[47] See D. Bessin, Concilia, part i., p. 78, quoted by Delisle, p. 116.
[48] Eustache Deschamps, Ballades, édition du Marquis de Queux de St. Hilaire. Ballade 835.
[49] In the disastrous years immediately preceding the accession of Charles V., the price of corn doubled.
[50] Eustache Deschamps, ii.
[51] Voyage du Seigneur de Caumont, quoted by Viollet-le-Duc, op. cit., v. p. 83.
[52] See, for instance, Douët d’Arcq, Comptes de l’Hotel des Rois de France.