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arms, delivered to Jarnac, on the 13th of June, 1547, at his dwelling in the Rue St. Honore"; he at the same time presented a new challenge from Vivonne, in which, after repeating in the grossest terms the in jurious accusations he had originally made, he demanded that a list of the necessary arms and weapons should be sent to him within four days from the date of his let ter, at the hdtel de Tournelles, in Paris. Jarnac lost no time in complying with the demand of Vivonne, and immediately des patched Angouleme, herald-at-arms, with a paper, as follows : — "Francois de Vivonne, provide yourself with the arms in which you are to appear on the day appointed for the combat. In the first place, you must be provided with a courser, a Turkish horse, a genet and a cropped horse. Item. You will provide yourself, as armor for your courser, with a war-saddle, a tilting-saddle, and a saddle two fingers high, the saddle-bow low in front, but having two cushions behind, and also with a saddle which shall have no cantle behind. Item. The said horses are to be supplied with the said saddles, the genet having in addition a saddle with short stir rups, and the Turkish horse, a Turkish as well as a French saddle, with a cantle two inches high, and the saddle-bow low in front. Item. The cropped horse is, more over, to have a French saddle, and a saddle without either cantle or cushion, but the saddle-bow protected by a half thigh piece. Item. The said horses are to be armed with barbs of steel before and behind, with fore head, flank and croup-pieces of iron. Item. That the said four horses are to be armed at all points with steel and leather barbs, mailed caparisons, and plated reins, the same as when prepared for battle, with the jousting weapons conformable. Item. You are to be provided to arm yourself with all

the pieces necessary for a man-at-arms, with single and double pieces for jousting or otherwise. Item. You are to provide your self with a complete suit of light armor. Item. You are to provide yourself with every kind of mail armor that can be worn. Item. With a shield and head piece. Item. With a target d V albanaise, and bucklers and tar gets of every kind, that are used on horse back or on foot. Item. With all kinds of gauntlets, of iron, mail, or steel plates. Item. You are to provide yourself and your horses with arms and armor of every possible kind that can be employed in war, in jousting, in ordinary and in mortal contest. Moreover, such arms as are not included in the pre ceding, I will bring both for you and for me, reserving to myself always, the right of adding to or taking from them, of moving or removing within the lists, or stripping my self to my shirt, or more or less, according as it shall seem good to me. "Done at Paris, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand five hundred and fortyseven. Guv Chabot." Angouleme, intrusted with the delivery of these conditions, performed his errand in due form, drawing up, as was customary, a formal report of the manner in which he had executed it, and stating that Vivonne had accepted the articles proposed. He added that, when he had read them, La Chasteigneraye merely observed : " Jarnac wants to fight with my purse as well as my body! " But the King, whose champion he really was, supplied him with money, and La Chasteigneraye, who had resolved to make the most of this opportunity, and having the King as his banker, made a most extravagant display. For a month or more before the duel he never appeared in public except with a company of upwards of a hundred friends, all of whom wore his col ors, and his expenses, says Veilleville, were