L'un tient une epee sans feurre, L'autre un maillet, l'autre une hache."--_Guiart_, v. 6635. They are not only without armour, but their equipment altogether is in a very tattered condition:-- "Et Ribaldorum nihilominus agmen inerme, Qui nunquam dubitant in quævis ire pericla." _Philippidos_, lib. iii. "Leurs robes ne sont mie neuves, Ainz semble tant sont empirées Que chiens les aient déciriées."--_Guiart_, v. 6640. Matthew Paris names them with but little honour: "Ribaldi et viles personæ[285]." They were, however, by no means useless members of the host. Thus, when Philippe Auguste appeared before Tours in 1189: "Dum Rex circumquaque immunita civitatis consideraret, Ribaldi ipsius, _qui primos impetus in expugnandis munitionibus facere consueverunt_, eo vidente, in ipsam civitatem impetum fecerunt," &c.[286] They were made to assist in carrying the baggage of the army: "Inermes Ribaldos et alios, qui solent sequi exercitum propter onera deportanda[287]." And, being unprovided with defensive armour, whenever they obtained any booty, the "soudoyers," who were better equipped than they, attacked them and appropriated their prizes:-- "Mais li Soudoiers de Biaugiers, Qui d'armes ne sont mie nuz, De ce qu'ils portent les desrobent."--_Guiart_, v. 10,826. The _Roi des Ribauds_ was an officer appointed to restrain the excesses of the Ribaldi, and is mentioned in many documents of France from the time of Philip Augustus to that of Charles VI. At the battle of Bovines in 1214, Roger de Wafalia is named in the list of prisoners as falling to the share of the King of the Ribauds: "Rogerus de Wafalia. Hunc habuit Rex Ribaldorum, quia dicebat se esse servientem." The names Clientes and Satellites were employed, as we have before mentioned, to indicate generally the inferior troops, whether horse or foot. At the battle of Bovines, the Clientes are a mounted corps, armed with sword and spear:-- "----Et quos Medardicus abbas[288] Miserat immensâ claros probitate Clientes Terdenos decies quorum exultabat in armis Quilibet altus equo gladioque horrebat et hastâ." _Guil. le Breton._ In the following passage, the Clientes seem to be foot-troops. It is from the History of Dauphiny, where, in 1283, Humbert promises to assist the Archbishop and Chapter of Vienne: "contra omnes homines, suis propriis sumptibus et expensis, cum centum hominibus armatis in equis, et cum tercentis balistariis, et septingentis clientibus cum lanceis."