[Endnote 24: Historical. Vide King, Description of Berlin, part 1.]
[Endnote 25: Historical. Vide Archives of Historical Science in Prussia.
Edited by Leopold von Ledebur, vol. iv, p. 97.]
[Endnote 26: They still made use of white as mourning in those days, and in half mourning wore black gloves. Therefore the White Lady appeared altogether in white when the death of the reigning sovereign or his wife was to be announced; but if only some member of their family, in white with black gloves.]
[Endnote 27: Vide Historical; Archives]
[Endnote 28: Vide Buchholz's History of Brandenburg.]
[Endnote 29: See von Orlich, The Great Elector, vol. i, p. 50.]
[Endnote 30: Von Orlich, p. 53.]
[Endnote 31: Frederick William's own words. See Droysen's History of
Prussian Policy, vol. in, p. 215.]
[Endnote 32: The Elector's own words. Vide Droysen, vol. iii, p. 217.]
[Endnote 33: Historical. Vide Letters of the Duchess of Orleans to
Countess Louise.]