FOOTNOTES:
[24] Halle,—a town three leagues from Brussels.
[25] The cause of the king's ridiculous order to seize all the tame magpies in Paris was owing to many of the Parisians having taught them to cry 'Peronne!' whence he had so narrowly escaped from the duke of Burgundy.
[26] A sergeant fieffé,—Cotgrave says, was an hereditary sergeant employed in the collection of taxes, &c.