Five brothers of the noble family de la Penne lived together in a Hospicium at Toulouse as students of the Civil and Canon Law.  One of them was Provost of a Monastery, another Archdeacon of Albi, another an Archpriest, another Canon of Toledo.  A bastard son of their father, named Peter, lived with them as squire to the Canon.  On Easter Day, Peter, with another squire of the household named Aimery Beranger and other students, having dined at a tavern, were dancing with women, singing, shouting, and beating ’metallic vessels and iron culinary instruments’ in the street before their masters’ house.  The Provost and the Archpriest were sympathetically watching the jovial scene from a window, until it was disturbed by the appearance of a Capitoul and his officers, who summoned some of the party to surrender the prohibited arms which they were wearing. ‘Ben Senhor, non fassat’ was the impudent reply.  The Capitoul attempted to arrest one of the offenders; whereupon the ecclesiastical party made a combined attack upon the official.  Aimery Beranger struck him in the face with a poignard, cutting off his nose and part of his chin and lips, and knocking out or breaking no less than eleven teeth.  The surgeons deposed that if he recovered (he eventually did recover) he would never be able to speak intelligibly.  One of the watch was killed outright by Peter de la Penne.  That night the murderer slept, just as if nothing had happened, in the house of his ecclesiastical masters.  The whole household, masters and servants alike, were, however, surprised by the other Capitouls and a crowd of 200 citizens, and led off to prison, and the house is alleged to have been pillaged.  The Archbishop’s Official demanded their surrender.  In the case of the superior ecclesiastics this, after a short delay, was granted.  But Aimery, who dressed like a layman in ‘divided and striped clothes’ and wore a long beard, they refused to treat as a clerk, though it was afterwards alleged that the tonsure was plainly discernible upon his head until it was shaved by order of the Capitouls.  Aimery was put to the torture, admitted his crime, and was sentenced to death.  The sentence was carried out by hanging, after he had had his hand cut off on the scene of the crime, and been dragged by horses to the place of execution.  The Capitouls were then excommunicated by the Official, and the ecclesiastical side of the quarrel was eventually transferred to the Roman Court.  Before the Parlement of Paris the University complained of the violation of the Royal privilege exempting scholars’ servants from the ordinary tribunals.  The Capitouls were imprisoned, and after long litigation sentenced to pay enormous damages to the ruffian’s family and erect a chapel for the good of his soul.  The city was condemned for a time to the forfeiture of all its privileges.  The body was cut down from the gibbet on which it had been hanging for three years, and accorded a solemn funeral.  Four