Editorial note — Chapter XII
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[Footnote 1: Commines, ii., ch. xi. It was not far from the place where another Prince of Orange tried to cross the Meuse exactly a hundred years later.]
[Footnote 2: The story of the "men of Franchimont" is questioned. Commines is the only authority for it.]
[Footnote 3: II., ch. xiii.]
[Footnote 4: Commines, ii., ch. xiii.]
[Footnote 5: Oudenbosch, Veterum scriptorum, etc. Amplissima Collectio, ed. E. Martene, iv. Rerum Leodiensim. Opus Adriani de Veteri Busco, p. 1343. The writer acknowledges that the story is hearsay.]
[Footnote 6: "Non cessero di cavalchare senza fare demoia alcuna. Lettres,iii., 300.]
[Footnote 7: Commines, ii., ch. xiv.]
[Footnote 8: "O prœclarum et memorabile facinus hujus regis Francorum."]
[Footnote 9: Basin, Histoire des règnes de Charles VII. et de Louis XI., Quicherat ed., ii., 204. This also appears in Excerpta ex Amelgardi. De gestis Ludovici XI., cap. xxiii. Martene's Amplissima Collectio, iv., 740 et seq.]
[Footnote 10: Quoted in Kirk, i., 606, note.]
[Footnote 11: Jean de Roye, Chronique Scandaleuse, ed. Mandrot, i., 220.]
[Footnote 12: Comines-Lenglet, iii., 83.]
[Footnote 13: Johannes de Los, Chronicon, p. 60. Quia hora nendum venerat. De Ram, "Troubles du pays de Liége."]
[Footnote 14: Commynes-Dupont, Preuves, iii., 242. Letter of Jehan de Mazilles to his sister.]
[Footnote 15: Hagenbach, later Governor of Alsace.]
[Footnote 16: Conte aux escros. This word strictly applies to the prisoners on a jailer's list—evidently used in jest.]