[Endnote 7:  Vide von Orlich, History of the Prussian State, etc., part 1, p. 35.]

[Endnote 8:  This palace of Count Schwarzenberg was situated on Broad Street, and the open square in front of it was where now stand the houses of the so-called Stechbahn.  In the middle of this square stood the cathedral, and behind this, near the Spree, arose the electoral castle.  It is the spot where the King’s apothecary now has his stand.]

[Endnote 9:  A historical fact. Vide von Orlich.]

[Endnote 10:  King, Description of Berlin, part I, p, 237.]

[Endnote 11:  Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, part 3, p. 172.]

[Endnote 12:  Count Lesle’s own words. Vide von Orlich, History of Prussia, part I, p. 40.]

[Endnote 13:  The Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate, brother to the Electress of Brandenburg, was (after the Archduke Maximilian had been declared to have forfeited the Bohemian throne) elected by the Bohemians to be their King.  He accepted the nomination, but a few days after his coronation was defeated in the battle of the White Mountain in Austria (1620); wandered about homeless for a long time, and died in 1632 in Mainz.  His wife was a daughter of the King of England, and his mother a Princess of Orange, wherefore his wife and children found a refuge and protection at The Hague.]

[Endnote 14:  Count Lesle’s own words. Vide Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, vol. iii, p. 173.]

[Endnote 15:  Historical. Vide von Orlich, part 1, p. 42.]

[Endnote 16:  Historical. Vide von Orlich.]

[Endnote 17:  Historical. Vide von Orlich, vol. ii, p. 456.]

[Endnote 18:  The Elector’s own words.  See von Orlich, vol. i.]

[Endnote 19:  The precise words of the Electoral Prince, See C.D.  Kuester, The Remarkable Youth of the Great Elector, p. 39.]

[Endnote 20:  Count Adam Schwarzenberg’s own words. Vide Droysen, History of the Prussian Policy, vol. iii, part I, p. 35.]

[Endnote 21:  Count Adam Schwarzenberg’s own words. Vide Droysen, History of the Prussian Policy, vol. iii, part I, p. 35.]

[Endnote 22:  Shortly before the Electoral Prince left home he found one evening under his bed a man armed with two daggers.  Upon the Prince’s outcry, his servants hurried to his assistance and succeeded in capturing the murderer, who endeavored to make his escape.  He confessed that he had come to murder the Electoral Prince, and that he had not done so of his own accord, but had been bribed to undertake the deed by a very distinguished lord.  This assertion was confirmed by a considerable sum of money, which was found in his pockets upon being searched.  They put him in prison, but two days afterward he had vanished, and with him his jailer, who had connived at his flight.  The Electoral Prince was firmly convinced that this murderer had been suborned by Count Schwarzenberg, and shortly before his death himself related this story to his physician. Vide Kuester, Youthful Life of the Great Elector.]