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and hence, by deduction, that the guns not mentioned as being large must 
have been very diminutive. Further corroboration of this argument will be 
found further on. 
Under date of 24th February, 1357, we read in the archives of the town 
of Chartres, 1 
“ A Guillaume le Fevre du Cloistre pour le reste qui lui estoit deu des canons 
que il a livrez a la ville et pour faire ferrure d’espingalles artillerie et martinez 
121. IQs” 
The town of Chartres, thus paying for cannon and other warlike engines, 
was no loser by its purchase; for Froissart tells us 2 how, eight years later, 
the bourgeoisie of Chartres lent their engines to the Duke of Burgundy, by 
which means he took the castle of Camerolles, and gave it to them “ pour 
le salaire de leurs engins,” and because they asked especially for it, as its 
owners had always been dangerous and troublesome neighbours. 
In 1358, the famous Stephen Marcel caused his adherents to remove 
some cannon which were in the Louvre at Paris to the Hotel de Ville, and 
elsewhere. These cannon w T ere crown property, as we learn from the fact 
that Jehan de Lyon, the officer entrusted with the charge of them, fled to 
Metz to the Dauphin, from whom he obtained a release for himself and his 
heirs. 3 
On the 17th June, 1359, a receipt was given by the “ general lieutenant 
de monsieur le maistre des arballestriers du roy,” for “ deux grans canons 
garniz de poudre et de charbon et de plommees 33 for the defence of Melun 4 5 ; 
and on the following 15th October, the “ artilleur du roy, en son chastel de 
Meleun” gives a receipt for “ cinquante six plommees rondes pour canons 
item trente deux autres plommees; douze livres de plon pesant, et vint et 
trois livres de poudre pour canons. 6 
The archives of Lille 6 contain an entry of payment to a messenger in the 
following year (1360), who was despatched to Bruges to buy i( quariaux 
salpetre et souffre pour la villeand it appears that he there purchased 
5100 arrows, 301b. saltpetre, and 121b. of sulphur. 
Again in 1368 7 the citizens of Lille purchased at Tournay 23 cannon, 
for 231. 6s. These were fixed by iron fastenings into wooden beds. At 
the same time there were purchased “ cxii plommees de canon pesans cxxvii 
liv. et demie.'” 
In all these instances we have only to compare the quantity of powder 
with the number of projectiles, or, as in the last case, to notice the weight 
of the projectiles themselves ; and we cannot fail to be convinced that the 
1 Etudes, &c., Vol. III. p. 91. 
2 Froissart, ed. Buchon, Yol. I. Part 2, ch. 278, p. 486. 
3 Etudes, &c., Yol. III. p. 91. 
4 B. E. original parchemin, parmi les titres scelles de Clairambault, Yol. IX. fol. 483. 
5 B. E. orig. parch, au cabinet des titres de la bibliothhque royale. 
6 Etudes, &c., Yol. III. p. 93. At this time Lille belonged to France, and was not reconyeyed to 
the Belgian provinces till 1383, when Philip the Hardy, by virtue of his marriage with Margaret, 
heiress of Louis of Nevers, became Count of Flanders, and received Lille as a gift from his brother, 
Charles Y. 
7 Ibid, p. 94. 
