s§ willingly obey your orders, as is right ; for, thank God, I bear no malice nor wifh evil to any one j bnt I thought I was fo well confidered in the town, that 1 might have had my fwqrd and armour borne after me without its being obje&ed to/ ' You are miftaken,' faid the bailiff : * it k the townfmen, to whom you have done fo many fer-vices, who have interfered, and tell me they are furprifed how I fuffer it ; for it feems to them ybu want to renew a war, for which they have no in-clination. I therefore beg of you, Francis, that you will fo aâ, as that I may hear no more of it ; for, if you do not observe the ediâ» I fhall look on you as an enemy to the duke and duchefs of Burgundy/ • Tttk bailiff of Ghent departed. Francis Atremen Returned to his houfe, and ordered his varlets to •lay afide their arms. He became melancholy ; and, for the greater part of the times he went abroad, it was alone, or having one varlet or a boy attending him. Not long after this converfa-tion with the baiHff, a feftival was kept at the monaftery of St. Peter, without Ghent, whither Francis went alone, or only attended by a fingle varlet, neither having fwords nor arms. He was watched, and followed by a baftard of the late lord de Harzelles, anxious to. revenge his death, in which common fame reported Francis Atremen ^to have been ftrongly guilty. The baftard, having provided himfelf with arms, followed him out of the town, and when at a proper diftance, and no one nçar, he called out to him, * Francis, you are a dea4