[5] Léopold Delisle, _L’Agriculture Normande au Moyen Age_. See pp. 8-17, an account of the position of the _hospites_, who, often burghers in the town, were little better than serfs in the country. [6] For example, the Marmosets of Charles V.; but this king also knighted numerous burghers of Paris. [7] For the full description of the origin and class of vavassours, we refer our reader to L. Delisle, _L’Agriculture Normande au Moyen Age_. [8] Bonis. [9] Thorold Rogers, i. 16. [10] _History of Prices_, _loc. cit._, and p. 66. [11] See especially the treatise on gardening in the _Menagier de Paris_. There is also a valuable chapter on the kitchen-garden in M. L. Delisle’s _L’Agriculture Normande au Moyen Age_. Most of the plants quoted were already grown in the gardens of Charlemagne. [12] Delisle, p. 221. [13] Delisle, p. 616. [14] Thorold Rogers, i. 54. [15] Delisle, p. 583. [16] _Régistres du Châtelet_, i. p. 3; and ii. pp. 100, 351, 370, 460, and 461. [17] Bonis, cxcvii. [18] _Régistres du Châtelet_: varlet thatcher, one sol and his keep (i. 393). Joubert, _Vie privée en Anjou_: hedgers paid per day, one sol and their food (p. 98). Thorold Rogers: for mowing an acre, 8½_d._; harvesters for carting corn, one sol two deniers, and their food (i. 255). [19] _Régistres du Châtelet_, i. 427, 448, 558, _et passim_; and ii. 497. [20] Bonis, p. cxciii. [21] See the farm inventory in Joubert’s _Vie Privée en Anjou au XVme. siêcle_. [22] Joubert. [23] _Comptes des Frères Bonis, Marchands de Montauban_, publié par M. Edouard M. Forestier, 1890, p. ccx. [24] _Châtelet_, ii. 509: “They took the bed, pulled the straw out of it, threw it in the chimney, and set fire to it.” [25] Thorold Rogers, _History_, i. 13. [26] See Vaissière, _Gentilshommes Campagnards de l’Ancienne France_; see also Thorold Rogers, _History of Prices_, i. 13. See _ibid._, inventory of John Senekworth’s effects, for the furniture of a Cambridgeshire manor in 1314. We notice six sheets, a mattress, a coverlet, a counterpane, a “banker” or stuffed cushion for a bench, three cushions, three table-cloths and two napkins, two drinking glasses, four silver spoons, basin and ewer, two silver seals, and _three books of romance_! [27] Douët d’Arcq, ii. 139. 6. [28] Joubert, _La Vie Privée en Anjou_. [29] Léopold Delisle, _L’Agriculture Normande_, p. 189. [30] _Régistres du Châtelet_ for 1392, i. 174. [31] _Ibid._, 427. [32] _Ibid._, 526. [33] Delisle, _L’Agriculture Normande_, 189. [34] _L’Agriculture Normande._ [35] _Ibid._, 190. [36] _L’Agriculture Normande_, 190. [37] Joubert, _Vie Privée en Anjou_, p. 94. [38] Joubert, _Vie Privée en Anjou_, p. 60. [39] Bonis, cxxi. [40] All these remedies are taken from the _Accounts of Bonis_, _loc. cit._, _et seq._ [41] Henri de Parville, “Revue des Sciences,” in the _Journal des Débats_, 23rd January, 1890. [42] Thorold Rogers, i. 399. [43] Bonis.