. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . heir owners, whowere unable to meet the charges upon them. In 1427 by aroyal instrument the rent of the Maison des Singes wasreduced from twenty-six livres to fourteen, seeing the ex-treme diminution of rents. Some curious details oflife in Paris under the Eng-lish have come down to a royal pardon grantedto Guiot dEguiller, we learnthat he and four other servantsof the Duke of Bedford, andof our late very dear andvery beloved aunt the Duchessof Bedford whom God pardon,were drinking one night atten ocloc
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . heir owners, whowere unable to meet the charges upon them. In 1427 by aroyal instrument the rent of the Maison des Singes wasreduced from twenty-six livres to fourteen, seeing the ex-treme diminution of rents. Some curious details oflife in Paris under the Eng-lish have come down to a royal pardon grantedto Guiot dEguiller, we learnthat he and four other servantsof the Duke of Bedford, andof our late very dear andvery beloved aunt the Duchessof Bedford whom God pardon,were drinking one night atten oclock in a tavern wherehangs the sign of VHommeArme^ Hot words arose be-tween them and some othertipplers, to wit, Friars Robert,Peter and William of theBlancs Manteaux, who weredisguised as laymen and wear-ing swords. Friar Robert losthis temper and struck at theservants with his naked friar, owing to thestrength of the wine or to inexperience in the use ofsecular weapons, cut off the leg of a dog instead of hittinghis man ; the friars then ran away, pursued by three of the. CLOISTER OF THE BILLETES, FIFTEENTHCENTURY, RUE DE lhOMME ARM^. sumptuous banquet and then went away fasting, for nothing was offeredthem. It was not so in the former times under our kings, they mur-mured, then there was open table kept, and servants distributed themeats and wine even of the king himself. Part of the Rue de THommc Arme still exists. 136 PARIS AND ITS STORY servants—Robin the Englishman, Guiot dEguiller and oneGuillaume. The fugitive friars took refuge in a desertedhouse in the Rue du Paradis (now des Francs Bourgeois),and threw stones at their pursuers. There was a fight,during which Guillaume lost his stick and snatching Guiotssword struck at Friar Robert through the door of the only gave one cop^ but it was enough, and there wasan end of Friar Robert. A certain Gilles, a povre Jiomme laboureur^ went to amusehimself at a game of tennis in the hostelry kept by GuillaumeSor
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