[Footnote 9:] [Ludwig] v. Diesbach, (See Kirk, i., 559.) The author was a page in Louis's train, who afterwards played a part in Swiss affairs.]
[Footnote 10:] [It] was never captured until Wellington took it in 1814.]
[Footnote 11:] [Commines], ii., ch. vii.]
[Footnote 12:] [The] bishop did indeed meet his death at the hands of the mob, but it was many years later.]
[Footnote 13:] [Le] roi ... se voyait logé, rasibus d'une grosse tour ou un Comte de Vermandois fit mourir un sien prédécesseur Roy de France. (Commines, ii., ch. vii.)]
[Footnote 14:] [Memoires], ii., ch. ix.]
[Footnote 15:] [Undoubtedly] Commines wishes it to be inferred that this was he. The main narrative followed here is Commines, whose memoirs remain, as Ste.-Beuve says, the definitive history of the times. There are the errors inevitable to any contemporary statement. Meyer, to be sure, says, apropos of an incident incorrectly reported, Falsus in hoc ut in pluribus historicus. Kervyn de Lettenhove three centuries later is also severe. See, too, "L'autorité historique de Ph. de Commynes," Mandrot, Rev. Hist., 73.]
[Footnote 16:] [Gachard], Doc. inéd., i., 199.]
[Footnote 17:] [Ibid]., 200.]
[Footnote 18:] [Waer] ic certiffiere dat het dezen nacht niet wel claer ghestaen heeft.]