Some of the enactments contained in this remarkable code are sufficiently curious. Take, for example, the following: 'Whosoever shall harbour a _scurra_[18] for more than one night, may lawfully duck such an one on the morrow if he or she refuse to quit his abode.' Others are no less remarkable for their practical common sense. For example the prudent regulation anent weights and measures. 'All weights and measures,' runs the article in question, 'shall be the same in the villages as in the towns. Any headman convicted of falsifying weights and measures shall pay a fine for each offence of three livres, any one found in possession of false weights shall forfeit a like sum, and double the damage caused thereby.' The game laws of the Liberty of Bruges were singularly oppressive. Perhaps Philip stipulated for their insertion in the _Keurbrief_ as the price of the large concessions he had made. In a country well-stocked with stags and boars, to say nothing of ground game, the following enactment must have been an intolerable burthen:--Whosoever shall be prosecuted for fencing in his property against game, if he refuse to undergo judgment by red-hot iron, shall submit to an inquiry by the Count, and if he be found guilty, all his goods shall be at the disposition of the Count and the châtelain, but his life and liberty shall be safe. The Flemish did not obtain complete redress of this iniquitous law until 1477. If the reader should wish to know something more of this interesting document we would refer him to Gheldorf's _Histoire Constitutionelle de la Ville de Bruges_, where the original text is given, together with a French translation and explanatory notes, p. 465. The magistrates of the Franc administered justice to those submitted to their jurisdiction in their _Landhuus_ on the west side of the Bourg. The building of Philip's day has long since disappeared. It was replaced in the early fifteen hundreds by Van den Poël's sumptuous _Palais du Franc_, of which a remnant is still standing, and still forms one of the most picturesque groups in the city of Bruges. The most charming view of its quaint turrets and gables is from the great fish market along the Quai Vert. Count Philip of Alsace was not only a builder of cities, a promoter of democratic institutions, the friend [Illustration: THE PALAIS DU FRANC]