GEBELLE: The French were able to expel most of the English from French soil. Charles V reorganised the royal council, giving increased influence to middle-class men and strengthened royal finances through such taxes as gable (on salt). These taxes remained the Crown's chief source of income until 1789.

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Benjamin Head Warder, Washington, D.C., died 1894; his daughter, Alice Warder Garrett, Baltimore; estate sale, Evergreen Foundation, 1968; Dr. Richard Howland, Washington, D.C., 1968; Geoffrey Bradley, New York, until 1993