Crossword-Solution: CLOQUE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

There was a tower here from the earliest days when Rouen had a civic history at all, a "Ban-cloque" to call her citizens together, which is mentioned in the city charters as a symbol of her freedom.

The terrible friar then breaks into a tirade against the courtiers of his day, comparing them with Arthur's knights: Tempore sed nostro, proh dii, sæcloque dadessum, Non nisi perfumis variis et odore zibetti, Non nisi, seu sazaræ petenentur sive tosentur, Brettis velluti, nec non scufiotibus auri, Auri cordiculis, impresis, atque medallis, Millibus et frappis per calzas perque giupones, Cercamus carum merdosi germen amoris.