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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelle#Paristhe mob quickly grew into the thousands and attacked the Place de Grève in search of weapons. They located a large store of iron mallets; Jean Froissart coined the term "maillotins", so naming their revolt.[8] The newly armed mob spread out across the city attacking buildings where anything of value was thought to be.
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loginsource: Grose, Francis: “The Antiquities of England and Wales” (1783)
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loginsource: detail from tapestry of Jourdain de Blayes, taken from:
Daily Life in Chaucer's England, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will McLean
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loginEach of these images contains one or more stereotypical mauls with a lump-shaped or cylindrical-shaped heads. It's likely that the mauls mentioned by Froissart and others being used at Agincourt by the English archers are of these type.