Editorial note — Chapter XIX
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[Footnote 1: Plancher, Histoire générale et particulière de Bourgogne, avec des notes et des preuves justificatives, iv., cccxxviii.]
[Footnote 2: Preparations for the duke's visit to Dijon had been set on foot almost immediately after Philip's death in 1467. One Frère Gilles had devoted many hours to searching the Scriptures for appropriate texts to figure in the reception. Every phrase indicating leonine strength was noted down. The good brother died before the anticipated event came to pass but the result of his patient labour was preserved.]
[Footnote 3: Dit qu'il avoit en soi des choses qui n'appartenoient de scavoir à nuls que à lui (Plancher, Preuves, iv., cccxxxiii.).]
[Footnote 4: Plancher, Preuves, iv., cccxxxiii. The document describing this ceremony gives February 28th as the date, but that is evidently an error and not accepted.]
[Footnote 5: Toutey, p. 117.]
[Footnote 6: There are many records in theBibl. nat.. of the sums paid out to the Swiss at this time.]
[Footnote 7: Chmel, i., 92 et seq.]
[Footnote 8: Kirk, ii., 488.]
[Footnote 9: Toutey, p. 141.]
[Footnote 10: Text given by Toutey, Pièces justificatives, p. 442.]
[Footnote 11: The details are very brutal and untranslatable.]
[Footnote 12: Toutey, p. 182.]
[Footnote 13: Paston Letters, iii., 122.]
[Footnote 14: Toutey, p. 244.]
[Footnote 15: Bulletin de l'acad. royale de Belgique, 1887.]