Some of them were arrested, and at night thrown into the Seine, sewn up in sacks, without other formality or trial.

A fresh meeting of notables was convened, towards the middle of April, at Compiegne, and the deputies from the principal towns were summoned to it; but they durst not come to any decision: "They were come," they said, "only to hear and report; they would use their best endeavors to prevail on those by whom they had been sent to do the king's pleasure." Towards the end of April some of them returned to Meaux, reporting that they had everywhere met with the most lively resistance; they had everywhere heard shouted at them, "Sooner death than the tax." Only the deputies from Sens had voted a tax, which was to be levied on all merchandise; but, when the question of collecting it arose, the people of Sens evinced such violent opposition that it had to be given up.

It was when facts and feelings were in this condition in France, that Charles VI.

and the Duke of Burgundy had set out with their army to go and force the Flemish communes to submit to their count.
[Illustration: The Procession went over the Gates----16] Returning victorious from Flanders to France, Charles VI.

and his uncles, everywhere brilliantly feasted on their march, went first of all for nine days to Compiegne, "to find recreation after their fatigues," says the monk of St.