P. 118.—“La Brayes,” lă brwa; “Reynault,” ráˈnōlˌ.
P. 119.—“Entrepot,” ŏng-tr-pō. A free port where goods are received and deposited.
“Vienne,” ve-enˈ.
P. 121.—“Gossip.” This word was formerly used in the sense of comrade, friend.
“Jehan d’Airs,” jāˈänˌdăr; “Jacques de Wisant,” zhäk deh veˈsŏnˌ.
P. 124.—“John Ball.” An English fanatical preacher in the reign of Richard II. executed at Coventry in 1381. He had been repeatedly excommunicated for preaching ‘errors and schisms and scandals against the pope, the archbishops, bishops and clergy,’ and when Wyckliffe began to preach he adopted some of the reformer’s doctrines, and engrafted them on his own. He joined Wat Tyler’s rebellion in 1381, and at Blackheath preached to a hundred thousand of the insurgents a violent democratic sermon on the text,
“When Adam delved and Eve span
Who was then the gentleman?”
P. 128.—“Good Parliament.” In the reign of Edward III., and so called from the severity with which it pursued the party of the duke of Lancaster.