George MacDonald Fraser Quote
Other March law offences included truce-breaking, attacking castles, impeding a Warden, importing wool, and a delightful local custom known as bauchling and reproaching. This meant publicly vilifying and upbraiding someone, usually at a day of truce; such abuse might be directed at a man who had broken his word, or had neglected to honour a bond or pay a ransom. The bauchler (also known as brangler, bargler, etc.) sometimes made his reproof by carrying a glove on his lance-point, or displaying a picture of his enemy, and by crying out or sounding a horn-blast, indicating that his opponent was a false man and detestable.
George MacDonald Fraser
Other March law offences included truce-breaking, attacking castles, impeding a Warden, importing wool, and a delightful local custom known as bauchling and reproaching. This meant publicly vilifying and upbraiding someone, usually at a day of truce; such abuse might be directed at a man who had broken his word, or had neglected to honour a bond or pay a ransom. The bauchler (also known as brangler, bargler, etc.) sometimes made his reproof by carrying a glove on his lance-point, or displaying a picture of his enemy, and by crying out or sounding a horn-blast, indicating that his opponent was a false man and detestable.