[Endnote 4: The peace of Prague was concluded in 1635, and in this the Elector of Brandenburg renounced alliance with the Swedes and assumed a neutral position.]
[Endnote 5: Historical. Vide Nicolai, i, p. 33.]
[Endnote 6: Vide von Orlich, History of the Prussian State, etc., part 1, p. 34.]
[Endnote 7: Vide von Orlich, History of the Prussian State, etc., part 1, p. 35.]
[Endnote 8: This palace of Count Schwarzenberg was situated on Broad Street, and the open square in front of it was where now stand the houses of the so-called Stechbahn. In the middle of this square stood the cathedral, and behind this, near the Spree, arose the electoral castle. It is the spot where the King's apothecary now has his stand.]
[Endnote 9: A historical fact. Vide von Orlich.]
[Endnote 10: King, Description of Berlin, part I, p, 237.]
[Endnote 11: Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, part 3, p. 172.]
[Endnote 12: Count Lesle's own words. Vide von Orlich, History of
Prussia, part I, p. 40.]
[Endnote 13: The Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate, brother to the Electress of Brandenburg, was (after the Archduke Maximilian had been declared to have forfeited the Bohemian throne) elected by the Bohemians to be their King. He accepted the nomination, but a few days after his coronation was defeated in the battle of the White Mountain in Austria (1620); wandered about homeless for a long time, and died in 1632 in Mainz. His wife was a daughter of the King of England, and his mother a Princess of Orange, wherefore his wife and children found a refuge and protection at The Hague.]