[130] François de La Noue (1531-1591), nicknamed Bras-de-Fer, Iron Arm, a famous Calvinist captain. Fighting at the head of the army of the States-General against Spain, he was captured (1578) and kept prisoner for five years in the fortresses of Limburg and Charlemont. He was killed at the siege of Lamballe in Brittany, where he was sent by Henry IV.—T.
[131] Cazotte, La Veillée de la Bonne femme, supra.—T.
[132] Orlando's famous steed.—T.
[133] Most of the scenes in As You Like It are laid in the Forest of Arden.—T.
[134] Charles Joseph Prince de Ligne (1735-1844), a Flemish general in the Austrian service, famous for his wit, his personal graces, and his military talent. Francis II. created him a field-marshal in 1808.—T.
[135] "When he was in the town,
Brussels town in Brabant."—T.
[136] Dante, Inferno, XXXVII. 127.—T.
[137] Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome (86-161), author or originator of the Itinerarium Provinciarum.—T.
[138] Robert II., Duke of Normandy (circa 1056-1134), nicknamed Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror. He was defeated by his brother, Henry I., at Tinchebray (1106), and imprisoned at Cardiff Castle until his death in 1134.—T.
[139] St. Helerius, hermit and martyr, patron saint of Jersey. His head was cut off by pirates. His feast falls on the 16th of July.—T.