[542] Cartulaire, iv. 425, 426.
[543] Ibid., iv. 427.
[544] Ibid., iv. 428, 430, 433.
[545] Hal is mentioned by Monstrelet and Waurin, and in an entry in the archives of Valenciennes as an exception to the rule that all the Hainault towns accepted Gloucester’s rule; but Hal was in Brabant and therefore was not called on to acknowledge the new governor of Hainault. See Waurin, iii. 135; Monstrelet, 564; Cartulaire, iv. 421.
[546] Cartulaire, iv. 437, 438. On Jan. 9 Gloucester alludes to this grant as 80,000 pounds tournois; Cartulaire, iv. 441.
[547] Chronique des Pays Bas, 387.
[548] Cartulaire, iv. 428.
[549] Ibid., iv. 434. For another protest on the same subject from the citizens of Mons, see Particularités Curieuses, 86.
[550] Particularités Curieuses, 92.
[551] Cartulaire, iv. 431.