Before the first battle of Gaza the Turks brought the rich Mufti of Gaza and his son to Jerusalem, and the Mufti was hanged in the presence of a throng compulsorily assembled to witness the execution.

CHAPTER XV: THE RACESA LETTER Dear -, I have been to the races: not to bet, nor to see the horses run: not even to see the fair ladies on the Grand Stand, in all the newest fashions of Paris via New York: but to wander en mufti among the crowd outside, and behold the humours of men.

It is a good tribunal, for, sooner or later, you will find every one thereeven officers, when they are travelling in mufti at their own expense.

I looked at him again and thought how glad he must be to get into mufti for a few days.

In court I always appeared in mufti on ordinary occasionsthat is to say, I did not appear at all ostentatiously, like some men, but sat quietly on my lord's robe close to his chair.

The chief of the series are Huon of Bordeaux, Guerin de Monglave, Gaylen Rhetore (in which Charlemagne and his paladins proceed in mufti to the Holy Land), Miles and Ames, Jairdain de Blaves, Doolin de Mayence, Ogier le Danais, and Maugis the Enchanter.