[Footnote 2]: Although almost all the superficial books of modern date which refer to the ancient state of Ghent, speak of these three members of states, as the ecclesiastics, the nobles, and the commons, the statement in the text is correct, which may be ascertained by referring to the Chronicles of George Chatellain, ad ann. 1467.
[Footnote 3]: She died a few years after this period, in consequence of a fall occasioned by her horse taking fright, while out falconing.
[Footnote 4]: This fact is undoubted, and, indeed, the whole account of the battle of Nancy here given la confirmed by Jean Molinet, Historiographer to Mary of Burgundy. The writer of this book, however, would have omitted this narration of events, which have been so admirably detailed elsewhere, had it not been absolutely necessary to his story.
[Footnote 5]: The only exception that I know, is to be found in the French revolution of 1830.
[Footnote 6]: The proceedings of the municipal council of Ghent, even before the assembling of the states, which it entirely commanded, were, in many instances, much more bold and tyrannical than any that it has seemed necessary to particularize here. Some authors assert that it forbade Mary to transact any public business without its sanction.
[Footnote 7]: When the states of Flanders assembled In Ghent, which was generally the case, either the chief pensionary or the chief eschevin of that city presided in the assembly a matter of right.
[Footnote 8]: The Dukes of Cleves and Gueldres were actuated, in the present instance, by very evident motives: the one wishing to obtain the hand of the princess (which Imbercourt and Hugonet strove to give to France) for his nearest relation, and the other for himself. The motive of the Bishop of Liege is supposed by historians to have been revenge for acts of justice rendered by Imbercourt under the reign of Charles the Bold.
[Footnote 9]: It may be necessary to inform those who are not deeply read in the chronicles of France, that this fact is minutely accurate.