[4]. ‘The text of Monstrelet is Pâques Communiaux. This expression has seemed to some learned men to be equally applicable to Palm as to Easter Sunday. M. Secousse, in a note on these words, which he has added to page 480 of the ixth volume of Ordinances, reports both opinions, without deciding on either. But the sense is absolutely determined as to Easter-day in this passage of Monstrelet, and in a paper quoted by du Chesne, among the proofs to the genealogy of the house of Montmorenci, p. 224. It is a receipt from Anthony de Waevrans, esquire, châtelain of Lille, with this date,—‘the 2d of April, on the vigil of Pâques communiaux avant la cierge benit, in the year 1490.’ The circumstance of the paschal taper clearly shows it to have been written on holy Saturday, which fell that year on the 2d of April, since Easter-day of 1491 was on the 3d of the same month.—See l’Art de Verifier les Dates.’
[5]. Essais de Montaigne, liv. xi. chap. 10.
[6]. I have a copy of these corrections, which are introduced either into the body of the text or at the bottom of the page.
[7]. ‘More slobbering than a mustard pot;’ but Cotgrave translates this, ‘Foaming at the mouth like a boar.’
[8]. ‘Having compared these different chronicles, underneath is the result.
| The truces between England and France, from the | Grandes Chroniques. | |
| Measures taken by the king of France relative to the troubles in the church, by the election of the duke of Savoy to the popedom, | Ditto. | |
| Continuation of the same subject, | Ditto. | |
| Taking of Fougeres, | Ditto, and in Jean Chartier. | |
| Rebellion in London, | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| Capture of Pont de l’Arche, &c. | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| Events of War, | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| From page 11. to page 23. in the original, | Ditto. | |
| From page 141. to page 157. | Ditto. | |
| With this difference, that the continuator of Monstrelet omits to report the treaties of surrender of many towns, and that he sometimes inverts the order of events. | ||
| From page 29. to page 35. from the | Grandes Chroniques. | |
| 158. 164. | Ditto. | |
| 35. 36. | Do. but somewhat abridged. | |
| 36. 38. | Ditto. | |
| 165. 171. | Ditto. | |
| 38. 40. | Ditto. | |
| 40. | Chronicles of Arras.’ | |
[9]. From chapter ccxvii to ccxxxvi in the translation, third volume, 4to.
[10]. ‘The capture of Sandwich by the French has been twice told; and also the account of the embassy from Hungary,—the duke of Burgundy’s entry into Ghent,—the proceedings against the duke of Alençon,—the account of what passed at the funeral of king Charles VII.’
[11]. ‘The copy of this chronicle, whence D. Berthod made his extract, is (or perhaps rather was) in the royal library at Brussels. Pere le Long and M. de Fontette notice another copy in the abbey of St Waast at Arras. This must be the original, for D. Berthod told me, that the one at Brussels was a copy.’
[12]. ‘Vol. xvi. of the Memoires de l’Académie, page 251.’