[59] “Garni de deux fermaulx d’argent, dorez, armoiez d’azur à une aigle d’or à deux testes, onglé de gueulles, auquel a ung tuyau d’argent doré pour tourner les feuilles, à trois escussons desdites armes, couvert d’une chemise de veluyau vermeil.”
[60] Probably this “pilgrimage” refers to some one of the great European Councils or Diets held in the city during the Middle Ages, as were Congresses in later times.—[Ed.]
[61] Sic; but it should evidently be the fifteenth century.—[Ed.]
[62] Anglicè, Stephens, by which name this illustrious family of scholars and printers is most popularly known in England. They were ten in number, who flourished between 1512 and about 1660. Anthony, the last distinguished representative of the family, died in poverty at the Hôtel Dieu, Paris, in 1674, at the age of eighty-two.—[Ed.]