The episode impressed the citizens of Ghent with the duke's power, and made the more timorous anxious to erase the event of 1467 from his mind. The peace party finally prevailed in their arguments, but the scene of abnegation and self-humiliation crowning their apology was not enacted until eighteen months after the events apologised for, when the new duke had still further proven his metal.
[Footnote 1:] [Gachard], Doc. inéd., i., 210, etc.]
[Footnote 2:] [Some] authorities make this five A.M., but the Rapport is probably correct.]
[Footnote 3:] [Chastellain], v., 260 et passim.]
[Footnote 4:] [So] say some historians. But it seems probable that the drapery of St. Lievin's shrine was hastily used as a flag.]
[Footnote 5:] [Chastellain], v., ch. 7, etc.]
[Footnote 6:] [These] are Chastellain's words to be sure, but the sober Rapport is similar in purport.]
[Footnote 7:] [Gachard], Doc. inéd., i., 212. ]
[Footnote 8:] [Gachard]. Doc. inéd., ii., 462, "Instrument notarié.">[