[88]. Quoted by the Marquis de Beaucourt, iv. p. 244, from the “Procès de Mariette.”
[89]. “Procès de Mariette” in the Preuves de Matthieu d’Escouchy, p. 290. See Marquis de Beaucourt, “Histoire de Charles VII.,” pp. 207 et seq.
[90]. March 14, 1451, Amédée of Savoy had promised to assist[assist] the Dauphin against all, “even against the King of France” (Charavay, l. c. p. 34). This had a different aspect after Louis’ coronation.
[91]. Dumont, iii. ccxxviii.
[92]. Secreta del Senato, MS. Reg. 21, folio 21.
[93]. MSS. Secreta del Senato, Reg. 31, fol. 123, tergo.
[94]. Many reasons have been given for the assumption of this surname. As a fact it appears to have been a baptismal name. In February, 1461, Bianca Maria Sforza sent to the shrine of the Santo at Padua the silver image of a child, ex voto for the recovery of her fourth son, Ludovicus Maurus, filius quartus masculus, aged five years. (“Archivio Storico Lombardo,” Anno xiii; Caffi on B.M. Sforza.)
[95]. Reg. 31, fol. 131, tergo.
[96]. Reg. 32, fol. 87.
[97]. The messenger left Florence Oct. 3, 1494. See for further details of these schemes the first vol. of Desjardins’ “Nég. dip. dans la Toscane.”