The End.
Footnote 1: See [map] at the commencement of the volume.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 2: The position of Nancy, as well as the situation of the two provinces of Anjou and Lorraine, which are now departments of France, may be seen by referring to any good map of that country, or to that at the commencement of this volume.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 3: The name was a contraction of Frederick.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 4: See [Frontispiece].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 5: See [map]. The oldest son of the King of France and the heir to the crown is styled the Dauphin. His rank and position corresponds with that of the Prince of Wales in England.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 6: On page [20].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 7: That is, the fourth of the table. There were other children not mentioned here.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 8: The story of Lady Neville, and of her connection with the great political transactions in which Margaret of Anjou was engaged at this time, though it is in all probability to be considered as a romance, is not an invention of the compiler of this narrative. It is interwoven with the history of Margaret of Anjou precisely as it is given here, by one of her most ancient and most oft-quoted biographers. It is chiefly useful to modern readers as illustrating the ideas and the manners of the times.
We often, in this series, thus repeat narratives which have come down from ancient times, and have thus become part and parcel of the literature of the period, and, as such, ought to be made known to the general reader, but which, at the present day, are not supposed to be historically true. In such cases, however, we intend always to give notice of the fact. In the absence of such notice, the reader may feel sure that all the statements in these narratives, even to the minutest details, are in strict accordance with the testimony of the best authorities now extant.[Back to Main Text]