[353] Ensign-bearers.

[354] A net the ends of which are drawn together with a string like a purse.

[355] Kid leather (Fr. chevreau). Hence a very flexible conscience was often called a cheveril conscience.—Halliwell.

[356] Mean or miserly persons.—Halliwell.

[357] See note ante, p. [306].

[358] i.e. Gallantly attired.

[359] Housings hung on horses and mules, and considered a mark of dignity.—Halliwell.

[360] A stick with leather flap for killing flies.

[361] One of the followers of Ogier the Dane into India, according to Mandeville, who was given sovereignty there, and is said by tradition to have had seventy tributary kings.

[362] i.e. Khan.