Note 17 — Chapter V · THE OPENING OF THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR

Lord Berners reads, “She caused damoselles and other women to cut shorte their kyrtels,” instead of “to unpave the streets,” as Mr. Johnes translates it. The words in D. Sauvage’s edition are “dépecer les chaussées,” to tear up the causeways, but when we consider that the streets of cities were very rarely paved at this period, Lord Berners’ version appears the more probable, and may be reconciled to the text if we read “chausses” for “chaussées,” which is not unlikely to be an error in transcribing.