During the first day thirty-five troop and transport trains went past us, moving towards the western frontier, the larger part to strengthen the German attack on Antwerp, which we had not long left behind us, others to discharge their loads as near as possible to Lille, Tournai, and Mons.

In May, 1815, the officer commanding-in-chief at Tournai was General-Major A.C. Van Diermen.

29.Dues on Wines, granted to the Chapter of Tournai by King Chilperic.

From the Windows of the Cathedral of Tournai, Fifteenth Century.]

30.The Bishop of Tournai receiving the Tithe of Beer granted by King Chilpéric.

From the Windows of the Cathedral of Tournai, Fifteenth Century.]

Window in the Cathedral of Tournai, Fifteenth Century.]

We passed Enghien, Leuze, Tournai, all with that curious look of a run-down clock.

Only a few months ago our William and his trusty troop swooped upon a couple of Bosch field batteries floundering in a soft patch on the far side of Tournai.

Particular notice should be taken of the black font brought from Tournai; it has the story of St. Nicholas carved upon it.

Here is another of those black sculptured Tournai fonts one of which has been noticed in Winchester.

The infant stream, here a mere trickle under the hedgerows, comes down from East Meon, three miles away, where there is a cruciform church containing a black Tournai font, and an old stone pulpit dating from the fifteenth century.

"We were in front of Tournai at the time, scrapping our way from house to house through Faubourg de Lille, the city's western suburb.

I heard that the manuscript was still preserved in the convent of Saint Amand, near Tournai, and I sent and had a copy made for me.

It commanded the river, the Zwin, and the sea approach by Sluys and Damme; the course of the various canals; and the roads to Ghent, Antwerp, Tournai, and Courtrai.

Such a tangle of inland waterways, giving access to the sea and to Bruges, Courtrai, and Tournai, as well as less directly to Antwerp and Brussels, ensured the rising town in early times considerable importance.

We read in the life of St. Eleutherus, bishop of Tournai, the native land of Clovis, that at one of those periods when the conscience of the Frankish king must have been most heavily laden, he presented himself one day at the church.

Clovis accepted this absolution, and loaded the church of Tournai with his gifts.

After having passed in state through Tournai, Courtrai, Audenarde, and Ghent, the King and Queen of France made their entry into Bruges.

"From the top of the towers of our monastery," says the Abbot of St. Martin's of Tournai, "we could see the French flying over the roads, across fields and through hedges, in such numbers that the sight must have been seen to be believed.

It had already, in the previous year and on the occasion of a treaty concluded between the two kings for the restitution of Tournai to France, been settled that they should meet before long in token of reconciliation.

The king was preparing to set out, like Marshal Saxe; he had just married the dauphin to the eldest daughter of the King of Spain; the young prince accompanied his father to the front before Tournai, which the French army was besieging.

" The fortress of Tournai surrendered on the 22d of May; the citadel capitulated on the 19th of June.

The English under the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II., with 55,000 men including a large German and Dutch auxiliary, met the French under Marshal Saxe, and in the presence of the French king Louis XV., near Tournai in Belgium.

Saxe had 40,000 men in action and 24,000 around Tournai, which town was the objective of the English advance.