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marechal ; an ccuyer of song; and one falconer, etc. The 

 cciujer of a poor chevalier had to perform the duties of 

 four or five ; for it was not enough to understand birds, 

 dogs, and horses — to know how to handle a lance, battle- 

 axe, and sword — to get over a fence or a ditch — to climb 

 well in an assault — to speak with politeness to ladies and 

 princes — to dress and undress his master — to wait upon 

 him at table— to parry the blows aimed at him in a mtlee 

 — but, in addition, he should know something of medicine, 

 and be capable of dressing wounds. He should also be 

 able to shoe a horse, and repair with the hammer broken 

 armour, or with the needle mend a hole in a mantle. 

 These varied acquirements were all necessary to make up 

 the accomplished ecuyer (or squire), who might after- 

 wards aspire to the honours of chivalry, and flatter himself 

 to be worthy of them.' 



The Cartulary of Besancjon furnishes some curious 

 details relative to the establishment kept up by Arch- 

 bishop Hughes I., in the loth century: 'The grand 

 officers of the Archbishop, all of whom possessed fortified 

 hotels in the town, were nine in number. These were 

 the chamberlain {earner arius), the master of the house- 

 hold {senechal, or dopifer), the butler {Jmicerna), the 

 pantler {panetarius), the marechal (inarescalus), the 

 forester {forestariiis), the purse-bearer {rnonetarius), the 

 " vicomte " {incomes), the mayor {major or villicus). . . . 

 The marechal held the superintendence of the Arch- 

 bishop's stables and the command of his men-at-arms 

 {marechaussee). Those innkeepers who desired to be 

 established in the street La Lue, could only do so after 

 ' A. Callet. Dictionnaire Eucyclopedique. Art. Ecuyer. 



