Editorial note — Chapter VII
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See also Doc. inédits concernant l'hist. de la Belgique, ii., 238, for comment on Scott's treatment of the language.]
[Footnote 7: The numbers are probably exaggerated. To-day it contains about two hundred thousand.]
[Footnote 8: Du Clercq, iv., 203.]
[Footnote 9: Du Clercq, iv., 249.]
[Footnote 10: Du Clercq, iv., 239-262.]
[Footnote 11: Gachard, Doc. inéd., ii., 285, 322. For letters and negotiations anterior to this peace see p. 197 et seq.]
[Footnote 12: Duclos, v., 236.]
[Footnote 13: Book ii., ch. i. To-day there are only about eight thousand inhabitants.]
[Footnote 14: In addition to Commines and Du Clercq see also Kirk, i., 385, for quotations from Borgnet and others.]
[Footnote 15: Gachard, Doc. inéd., i., 213, et passim.]
[Footnote 16: Gachard, Doc. inéd., ii., 350.]
[Footnote 17: Est falme commune que tres haute princesse la ducesse de Bourgogne, à cause desdictes injures at conclut telle hayne sur cestedite ville de Dinant qu'elle a juré comme on dist que s'il li devoit couster tout son vaellant, fera ruynner cestedite ville en mettant toutes personnes à l'espée. (Gachard, Doc. inéd., ii., 222.)]
[Footnote 18: Gachard, Doc. inéd., ii., 337, et passim.]
[Footnote 19: Du Clercq, iv., 273.]
[Footnote 20: He says messengers were put to death without regard to their sacred office, even a little child being torn limb from limb. Priests were thrown into the river for refusing to say mass, and the situation was strained to the last degree.]
[Footnote 21: Qui a mandé ce vieil monnart vostre duc, etc.]
[Footnote 22: Du Clercq, iv., 278.]
[Footnote 23: De Ram, Documents relatifs aux troubles du pays de Liége, "Henricus de Merica," p. 159.]
[Footnote 24: Vel vendebantur in servos. See De Ram et passim for documents.]
[Footnote 25: It seems to be well attested that the prisoners were tied together and drowned.]
[Footnote 26: Du Clercq, iv., 280.]
[Footnote 27: Ibid., 281.]
[Footnote 28: In 1472, a new church was erected "on the spot formerly called Dinant" and after that, little by little, the town came to life. (Gachard, Analectes Belgiques, 318, etc.).]