1453.

(letter of the Intendant or Alencon, July 18th).

"I must not leave you in ignorance of the multiplied outbreaks we have in all parts of my jurisdiction.

The impunity with which they flatter themselves, because the judges are afraid of irritating the people by examples of severity, only emboldens them.

Mischief-makers, confounded with honest folks, spread false reports about particular persons whom they accuse of concealing grain, or of not belonging to the Third-Estate, and, under this pretext, they pillage their houses, taking whatever they can find, the owners only avoiding death by flight."] [Footnote 1308: A body of magistrates forming one of the lower tribunals.] [Footnote 1309: "Archives Nationales," H.942.