[Endnote 14: Count Lesle's own words. Vide Droysen, History of Prussian
Politics, vol. iii, p. 173.]
[Endnote 15: Historical. Vide von Orlich, part 1, p. 42.]
[Endnote 16: Historical. Vide von Orlich.]
[Endnote 17: Historical. Vide von Orlich, vol. ii, p. 456.]
[Endnote 18: The Elector's own words. See von Orlich, vol. i.]
[Endnote 19: The precise words of the Electoral Prince, See C.D. Küster,
The Remarkable Youth of the Great Elector, p. 39.]
[Endnote 20: Count Adam Schwarzenberg's own words. Vide Droysen,
History of the Prussian Policy, vol. iii, part I, p. 35.]
[Endnote 21: Count Adam Schwarzenberg's own words. Vide Droysen,
History of the Prussian Policy, vol. iii, part I, p. 35.]
[Endnote 22: Shortly before the Electoral Prince left home he found one evening under his bed a man armed with two daggers. Upon the Prince's outcry, his servants hurried to his assistance and succeeded in capturing the murderer, who endeavored to make his escape. He confessed that he had come to murder the Electoral Prince, and that he had not done so of his own accord, but had been bribed to undertake the deed by a very distinguished lord. This assertion was confirmed by a considerable sum of money, which was found in his pockets upon being searched. They put him in prison, but two days afterward he had vanished, and with him his jailer, who had connived at his flight. The Electoral Prince was firmly convinced that this murderer had been suborned by Count Schwarzenberg, and shortly before his death himself related this story to his physician. Vide Küster, Youthful Life of the Great Elector.]
[Endnote 23: von Orlich, History of the State of Prussia, vol. i, p. 42.]