First they made a demonstration against the Church of St.
Mathurin after chalices, and were ignominiously chased away
by barking dogs. Then Tabary fell out with Casin Chollet,
one of the fellows who stole ducks in Paris Moat, who
subsequently became a sergeant of the Chatelet and
distinguished himself by misconduct, followed by imprisonment
and public castigation, during the wars of Louis Eleventh.
The quarrel was not conducted with a proper regard to the
king's peace, and the pair publicly belaboured each other
until the police stepped in, and Master Tabary was cast once
more into the prisons of the Bishop. While he still lay in
durance, another job was cleverly executed by the band in
broad daylight, at the Augustine Monastery. Brother
Guillaume Coiffier was beguiled by an accomplice to St.
Mathurin to say mass; and during his absence, his chamber was
entered and five or six hundred crowns in money and some
silver plate successfully abstracted. A melancholy man was
Coiffier on his return! Eight crowns from this adventure
were forwarded by little Thibault to the incarcerated Tabary;
and with these he bribed the jailor and reappeared in Paris
taverns. Some time before or shortly after this, Villon set
out for Angers, as he had promised in the SMALL TESTAMENT.
The object of this excursion was not merely to avoid the
presence of his cruel mistress or the strong arm of Noe le
Joly, but to plan a deliberate robbery on his uncle the monk.
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