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SPLENDeRs OF CHIvALRY.-The arms and clothing
of the knights were OF the most sumptuous and costly
description. TER shields covered with gold,
and painted enameed with vaIlous colors; their
tents also were ornamentcd every different way
that their fancy could devise the crests OF their he'll
NETS blazed with the precious metals, and sometimes
with jewels; and the robes and the surcoais which
they wore were formed of the richest silks and CEN
das, OF scarlet and every other bright and dazzling
hue Fine linen, which was then rarity was eagerly
sought among Them; and we find from John OF Sa-
lisbury, that ii was becoming the custom in that day
TO make the garments of the male part OF society,"
when not absolutely in the field, lit tightly TO the
body as TO resemble skin, AT the great meetings of
princess every of pageaniry and luxury dis
played: and in the year La OF those confer
enccs occurred, in which splendor and prouson were
carried TO excess that more rcsembled some OF the
wild follies of the Roman yrants the eXtray agant
pomp of Eastern barbarlans, than anything that mo-
dern Europe has produced. In the course of that
year, the Count of Toulouse, much, in all pToba
bility, with the design OF being absent from scene
of warfare, where he might have been obliged TO
take part with one of two princes TO each OF whom
he had done homage as for the purpose OF arranging
some difficult affairs his eastern frontier retired
from his capital toward the Gulf of Lyons and held
what was then called a cOm peniere at his castle of
Beaucaire.


1, is affirmed, that Henry King of England himself,
ndu appointed 10 meet tHc hIhS ol aIIdSon dt tldt
place, in order to mediate reconciliation between
him and the Count OF Toulouse. The English king,
however, was prevented from attending by the war
in which he engaged and the time passed IN
festivities and sports Nearly ten thousand knights
said TO have been present the occasion; one
baron alone, named William de Marte, having three
hundred knights in his train Every one endeavored
surpass the other in extravaganza the Count OF
Toulouse gave hundred thousand solid.
thousand marks Of fine silver, 10 knight named
Raymond d'Agout; who Immediately distributed
them among the other persons present William de
Mar;el required all his repasts be cooked by the
heat Of wax candles Bertrand Raimbaud ordered
the fields in the Reighborbood OF the castle to be
ploughed and sowed with small coin; in which in
act he scattered thirty thousand solld: and Ray
mond de Venous, TO add brutality to folly, caused
thirty of his finest horses be burnt before the whole
assemby.-[J James's Life OF Richard C@ur de Lion.


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