[751] Earle, Philology of the English Tongue, 3rd ed. pp. 8, 9.
[752] On this and previous floods see Blok, Geschiedenis, i, 313, 314; tr. i, 209, 210; Davies, vol. i, note C.
[753] Motley, p. 20.
[754] Cp. David, pp. 77, 78, 85, 92, 99, 101, 105, 108, 149; Motley, pp. 24, 28, 29; Grattan, pp. 42, 44, 46, 50, 54, 64.
[755] The town of Hoorn seems to have been virtually ruined by the punitive exactions of Charles the Bold (Davies, i, 269, 312).
[756] David, p. 94.
[757] Davies, i, 314.
[758] Motley, pp. 28-30.
[759] Largely through the union between Spain and England under the Tudor kings (Grattan, p. 66).
[760] Robertson, Charles V, b. vi; Motley, Rise. Histor. Introd. § 11.