But the townsfolk would not let the mercenaries enter, seizing the keys of the town from the officials and mounting their own guard at every gate.
The townsfolk bought it and the farmers drove in for it.
They had emerged from the court-house and paused on the street as the stream of townsfolk divided and passed by them to take different routes leading from the Square.
Thus the townsfolk were made certain that an incendiary plot was on foot.
The detachment of welcoming townsfolk from the bank closed in around us; and around them, presently, closed in the detachment of welcoming townsfolk from the bridge.
The beautiful statue of Jeanne d'Arc, which seemed to be gazing on the battle from afar, had been entwined with wreaths and garlands, placed there by townsfolk who desired thus to win her prayers for the success of their army.
The joyful tidings spread quickly through the town, and exclamations and prayers of joy and gratitude were on every tongue; nor was it easy to discern whether the townsfolk or the garrison were filled with greater gladness at the news.
Hence we were careful how we moved about after nightfall, lest we might come into collision with the soldiery, or such of the townsfolk as might have been disposed to interfere with us.
As the day advanced, and rumours were spread of a French victory, the excitement of the townsfolk knew no bounds.
Free of the forest, Fulviac sent on a troop of horse towards Geraint to warn the townsfolk of his advance.
Word was brought to the King by one of Morolt's esquires, that the townsfolk were holding the great square behind their barricades, and pouring a hot fire from the houses upon his troops.
The townsfolk were scattered like blown leaves towards the burning houses.
The townsfolk were scurrying like rats for the great square where the remnant of the garrison had barricaded the entries, gathering for a death-struggle under the umbrage of the cathedral towers.
The townsfolk had spared his pompous neck for the sake of the benefits of his craft.
Gilderoy had signalised her rising in blood; mob rule had been proclaimed; the peasantry and townsfolk had thrown down the glove to the nobles.
For us there is to be another sickening period of hope deferred; but we try to hide our dejection, and persuade the anxious townsfolk that it is only a necessary pause while General Buller brings up his big guns and transport.
Yonder he goes," the townsfolk sighed, "But the rock will have its way.
Perkin Warbeck meanwhile had made another foray upon Munster, where he was supported by Desmond, and repulsed with no little ignominy by the townsfolk of Waterford; after which he again departed and was seen no more upon that stage.
The townsfolk were undisturbed; the law was protected; the law officers went their rounds; there seems even to have been little general rapine and pillage.
Lundy, its governor, was ready indeed to surrender it into his hands, but the townsfolk declined the bargain, and shut their gates resolutely in the king's face.
Half-a-dozen travelers and as many townsfolk were sitting round the fire, talking briskly over their evening draught.
The Duke of Cleves is expected here to-morrow, and the townsfolk feel they would be disgraced forever if he should find their gate held by a party of marauders, as they consider you.
It was plain that the townsfolk were puzzled how to come at us without suffering great loss.
Thus in 1513 the townsfolkof Erfurt battered in the gates of the University with cannon, and after the flight of the professors and students destroyed almost all the archives and library.
If the common chest was not able to afford sufficient for the support of the helpless and orphans, the townsfolk had to provide what was needed.
The townsfolk were appeased by the grant of certain trading privileges; but ten years later the quarrel broke out again.
The townsfolk themselves assessed their taxes, levied them in their own way, and paid them through their own officers.
In all towns where the question of jurisdiction was raised between the townsfolk and the Church party the quarrel about coroner’s inquests ran high.
He became more and more identified with the townsfolk among whom he lived, and on whose approval he was made dependent by their contention that he should hold office so long as he was, in their opinion, “of good name and fame.
Even if the townsfolk gathered for a day’s amusement to hear a play in the Court-house a watch was set lest the enemy should set fire to their streets—a calamity but too well known to the burghers of Rye and Southampton.
Traders from Bristol had settled in its streets, and men of Holland and foreign merchants and craftsmen; and the townsfolk had grown prosperous and began to bind themselves together in fraternities—the brotherhood of S.
In case of a quarrel, he could refuse to ordain Canterbury men, to confirm Canterbury children, or to allow the offices of the Church to sick people, unless the townsfolk swore to obey him in all things.
At this moment when terror still hovered over them, the townsfolk were virtually unanimous in their gratitude.
The townsfolk welcomed the insurgents as though they were deliverers.
The ball to be given by the townsfolk had been indefinitely postponed in deference to Colonel Stone's condition and the absence of so many dancing men in the field, but the weekly hops, although with thinned attendance, went regularly on.
We find animosities and complaints of the same kind directed against the struggling suburban manufacturers, who competed with the townsfolk by dint of braving every hardship, and accustoming their hands to every form of labour.
But the new literature was for the townsfolk themselves, and it bore on every line the impress of its origin.
In 1460 the townsfolk made a new effort of a different and singularly interesting kind.
Even the modest claim of townsfolk for some closer connexion with their mayor only reveals with what a steady hand the venerable oligarchy maintained its ancient discipline.
Among thetownsfolk the “gentleman” was not the man who ruled his neighbour, but the enfranchised equal among his fellows.
Thus, in Haverford West, where the townsfolk up to 1832 took a very real part in the election of their officers and the control of business, the common meadow still contained over a thousand acres.
As occasion served the townsfolk perhaps attempted to form a representative council out of a jury of electors or of arbitrators, or from a committee of the common assembly, or delegated members from the crafts.
Fearful of the hate of the guard, of treachery among themselves and of the townsfolk in other places, they tramped across the hills, followed closely by the stern-visaged riders.
Several townsfolk came in, ate, and departed on their several ways.
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street.
It had a garrison of about 700, including some of the townsfolk armed.
For the peasant of Tyrol, indeed, it is New Year's Day, the first of January being kept only by the townsfolk and modernized people.
It was indeed a form of entertainment which the townsfolk as well as the lower clergy thoroughly appreciated, and they were by no means willing to let it die.
Mr. Galton has calculated that in a typical industrial town the number of children of artisan townsfolk that grow up are little more than half as many as in the case of the children of labouring people in a healthy country district.
The townsfolk drove off our cattle as security and, by way of punishment, your uncle seized the goods of their merchants, and they came to blows.
At this moment in came the townsfolkinto the chapter-house, and offered to compromise the matter for an annual quit rent of a hundred shillings.
But there is not one among the roughest of the peasants or of the townsfolk who has not that indescribable thing we call manner, or who would betray our insular awkwardness when we speak to a lord.
Sometimes the townsfolk have grown insolent and tried to defend their privileges by sheer violence.
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