 | Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1805 - 508 pages
...me is, that fix of the principal citizens of Calais march out of the town, with bare heads and feet, with ropes round their necks, and the keys of the town and caftle in their hands. Thefe fix perfons fhall be at my abfolute difpofal, and the remainder of the... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1901 - 452 pages
...the principal citizens, who were to come out to him with their heads and feet bare, with ropes around their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in...were found ready to purchase the freedom of their fellow-sufferers upon these hard terms. They left the town in the way appointed by the King, who received... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 850 pages
...that six of the principal citizens of Calais march out of the town with bare heads and feet, ioith ropes round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. These six persons shall be at my absolute disposal, and the remainder of the inhabitants pardoned.'... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Burgundy - 1839 - 836 pages
...is, that six of the principal citizens of Calais march out of the. town, with bare heads and feet, with ropes round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. These six persons shall be at my absolute disposal, and the remainder of the inhabitants pardoned."... | |
 | Jean Froissart - 1841 - 232 pages
...if six of the chief citizens of Calais were sent to him, bare-headed and bare-footed, with halters round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands, he would pardon the rest. " When Sir Walter returned to Sir John de Vienne and reported the king's... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...that six of the notable burgesses must come forth naked in their shirts, bare legged, with halters round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. On these I will do my will, and the rest I will take to my mercy." What followed,—the universal distress... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...that six of the notable burgesses must come forth naked in their shirts, bare-legged, with halters round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. On these I will do my will, and the rest I will take to my mercy." When Sir Walter Manny reported this... | |
 | Ephraim HOLDING (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]), George Mogridge - 1843 - 206 pages
...of the town coming out bare-headed, bare-footed, barelegged, and in their shirts, with halters about their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands, to be dealt with after his pleasure, the rest should find mercy. These were hard conditions, for how... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Christian life - 1844 - 278 pages
...of the town coming out bare-headed, barefooted, bare-legged, and in their shirts, with halters about their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands, to be dealt with after his pleasure, the rest should find mercy. These were hard conditions, for how... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...Walter, let six of the notable burgesses come forth, naked in their shirts, bare-legged, with halters round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. On these I will work my will, and the rest I will take to my mercy.' This cruel condition filled the... | |
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Calais march out of the town with bare heads and feet, with ropes round their necks, and the keys of the town and castle in their hands. These six persons shall be at my absolute disposal, and the remainder of the inhabitants pardoned. 
