In those days of war and pillage many a field was lying fallow, many a shop was closed, and few were the merchants ambling on their nags from town to town.[597] [Footnote 597: Th.

Basin, _Histoire de Charles VII_, Bk.

II, ch.

vi.
Antoine Loysel, _Memoires des pays, villes, comtes et comtes de Beauvais et Beauvoisis_, Paris, 1618, p.229.

P.Mantellier, _Histoire de la communaute des marchands frequentant la riviere de Loire_, vol.
i, p.