Editorial note — Chapter III
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[Footnote 1: A performance repeated in our modern Lohengrin.]
[Footnote 2: The chroniclers are not at one on this point.]
[Footnote 3: DuClercq, Mémoires, ii., 159.]
[Footnote 4: This banquet at Lille was the subject of several descriptions by spectators or at least contemporary authors.]
[Footnote 5: Laborde, i., 127.]
[Footnote 6: II., 361.]
[Footnote 7: The text says in the Burgundian or recluse fashion. Béguine is probably the right reading.]
[Footnote 8: Mathieu d'Escouchy (ii., 222) gives all the vows as though made then, and differs in many unessential points from La Marche's account. The Count of St. Pol was the only knight present who made his going dependent on the consent of the King of France, a condition very displeasing to his liege lord of Burgundy.]
[Footnote 9: Du Clerq, ii., 203.]
[Footnote 10: '"Michel dit que le gigot de la cour était rompu."—La Marche, i., ch. xiv.]
[Footnote 11: Chastellain, iii., 20, note.]
[Footnote 12: "Toute fois que ce ne soit pas sans moy."]
[Footnote 13: The original, signed, is in the Archives de la Côte-d'Or, B. 200. See Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Histoire de Charles VII., v. 470.]
[Footnote 14: Chastellain, iii., 23, etc.]
[Footnote 15: Chastellain, iii., 24]
[Footnote 16: The chroniclers differ as to this date. Chastellain (iii., 25) says the first Sunday in Lent. D'Escouchy (ii., 270, ch. cxxii) the night of St. Martin. Alienor de Poictiers, Hallowe'en (Les Honneurs de la Cour, p. 187). The last was one of Isabella's ladies in waiting.]