Editorial note — Chapter IV
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[Footnote 1: I.,ch. xxxi.]
[Footnote 2: II.,204.]
[Footnote 3: Barante, vi.,50.]
[Footnote 4: Some of the canons wrote their reasons after their recorded vote: "Because Duke Philip had made the candidate member of his council of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, in which office Gijsbrecht had acquitted himself well." "Because all the Sticht nobles were his relations," etc.—(Wagenaar, Vaderlandsche Historie, iv., 50.)]
[Footnote 5: Du Clercq, ii., 210.]
[Footnote 6: Mémoires, i., ch. xxxiii.]
[Footnote 7: II., 315.]
[Footnote 8: See Lavisse, ivii., 317.]
[Footnote 9: For the effects of operations on a large scale see Jacques Cœur and Charles VII., by Pierre Clémart.]
[Footnote 10: Duclos, "Hist. de Louis XI.," Œuvres Complètes v., 8.]
[Footnote 11: Duclos, iii., 78.]
[Footnote 12: See Lavisse, ivii., 292.]
[Footnote 13: II.,223.]
[Footnote 14: Lettres de Louis XI., i., 77. According to the editor, Vaesen, the original of this letter shows that September 2nd was written first and erased.]
[Footnote 15: , iii., 185.]
[Footnote 16: Du Clercq, ii., 228.]
[Footnote 17: Chastellain iii., 197.]
[Footnote 18: See Séjour de Louis XI. aux Pays-Bas; Reiffenberg: Nouveaux mem. de l'Acad. Royale, 1829.]
[Footnote 19: Alienor de Poictiers, Les Honneurs de la Cour, ii., 208. It was early in October.]
[Footnote 20: This date, November 11th, does not agree with the others.]
[Footnote 21: "At that time they did not say Madame, for Monsieur was not the son of a sovereign."—La Marche, ii., 410, note.]
[Footnote 22: La Marche, ii., 410: "Dieu quel parrain!"]
[Footnote 23: II., 343.]
[Footnote 24: Chastellain, iii., 185; Lavisse ivii., 299.]