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Which was immediately done.

Original French:  Ce que feut incontinent faict.

Modern French:  Ce que feut incontinent faict.


Incontinent

Incontinent. Incontinently, instantly, immediatly, presently, suddainely, forthwith, out of hand, as soon as may be.

Randle Cotgrave [–1634?]
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue
London: Adam Islip, 1611
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Posted 10 February 2013. Modified 25 January 2015.

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easily they could with stones and clubs

Original French:  facilement on pouoit auecques pierres & liuiers

Modern French:  facilement on povoit avecques pierres & liviers


levier

Barre de bois ou de fer servant à soulever les fardeaux. Par extension, Barre de bois ou de fer, gros bâton (utilisé en partic. comme arme).

Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français
Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français

levier

A Leauer; an Iron crow, or woodden barre to lift up things with.

Randle Cotgrave [–1634?]
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue
London: Adam Islip, 1611
PBM

liviers

Levier. Cf. l. I, ch XII, n. 41.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Oeuvres. Tome Cinquieme: Tiers Livre
Abel Lefranc, editor
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1931
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Posted . Modified 25 January 2015.

from the machicolations

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that from the machicolations

Original French:  que des machicoulis

Modern French:  que des machicoulis



Notes

Machicolations

Objects dropped from a machicolation supported by stone corbels
An illustration showing an object being dropped from a machicolation that is supported by stone corbels.


machicolations

A machicolation (French, machicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones, or other objects, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall. The design was adopted in the Middle Ages in Europe when Norman crusaders returned from the Holy Land. A machicolated battlement projects outwards from the supporting wall in order to facilitate this.

The word derives from the Old French word machecol, mentioned in Medieval Latin as machecollum and ultimately from Old French macher ‘crush’, ‘wound’ and col ‘neck’. Machicolate is only recorded in the 18th century in English, but a verb machicollāre is attested in Anglo-Latin. A variant of a machicolation, set in the ceiling of a passage or over a gateway, was known as a meutrier or colloquially as a murder-hole.

Machicolation. Wikipedia

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Posted . Modified 30 August 2020.