A popular history of France : from the earliest times . n account of the destruction of the com-mune as much as each had given for its establishment. In a fitof violent indignation the burghers assembled; and forty ofthem bound themselves by oath, for life or death, to kill thebishop and all those grandees who had labored for the ruin ofthe commune. The archdeacon, Anselm, a good sort of man,of obscure birth, who heartily disapproved of the bishops per-jury, went nevertheless and warned him, quite privately, andwithout betraying any one, of the danger that threatened him,urging him not to leav
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . n account of the destruction of the com-mune as much as each had given for its establishment. In a fitof violent indignation the burghers assembled; and forty ofthem bound themselves by oath, for life or death, to kill thebishop and all those grandees who had labored for the ruin ofthe commune. The archdeacon, Anselm, a good sort of man,of obscure birth, who heartily disapproved of the bishops per-jury, went nevertheless and warned him, quite privately, andwithout betraying any one, of the danger that threatened him,urging him not to leave his house, and particularly not to ac-company the procession on Easter-day. Pooh ! answeredthe bishop, I die by the hands of such fellows ! Next day,nevertheless, he did not appear at matins, and did not set footwithin the church; but when the hour for the procession came,fearing to be accused of cowardice, he issued forth at the headof his clergy, closely followed by his domestics and someknights with arms and armor under their clothes. As the com-. BURGHERS OF LAONE DISCUSSING THEIR CHARTER. — Page 220.
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