entrance was neither wide [nor high enough, and befides, they did their work like cowards. It muft be owned for truth, that God (hewed great favour to the conftable : if he had not ex-a&ly fallen againft the hatch, or if it had been clofed, he would infallibly have loft his life, and have been trampled to death by the horfes, for they were afraid to difmount. Several of them ima-gined, even fir Peter de Craon and the perfon who had hit him, that the blow on his head which unhorfed him muft caufe his death : fir Peter, therefore, faid,—c Come, let us away : we have done enough: if he be not dead, he can never recover from the laft blow, which was given by a lufty arm/ On faying this, they colleâed toge-ther and left the place at a good trot, and were foon at the gate of Saint Anthony, which they paffed, and gained the fields; for fince the battle of Rofebecque, ten years ago, the gates were never (hut. The Parifians had then their mallets taken from them by the conftable, and many of the citizens puniflied and fined for their imprudent conduit, as I have fully narrated. VOL. X. CHAP. 3%