Meaning of Bacon

As, on reconsideration, I perceive there is some doubt as to the meaning of the word *bacons* in Foulques Fitzwarin, I send you the passage in which it occurs, that your readers may form their own opinion concerning it:— "Pus après, furent les portes de le chastel, qe treblées erent, ars e espris par feu que fust illumée de bacons e de grece." I must in addition add, that I was mistaken as to the meaning of *hosebaunde*, which was possibly only the French mode of writing husband.