[Endnote 23:  von Orlich, History of the State of Prussia, vol. i, p. 42.]

[Endnote 24:  Historical. Vide King, Description of Berlin, part 1.]

[Endnote 25:  Historical. Vide Archives of Historical Science in Prussia.  Edited by Leopold von Ledebur, vol. iv, p. 97.]

[Endnote 26:  They still made use of white as mourning in those days, and in half mourning wore black gloves.  Therefore the White Lady appeared altogether in white when the death of the reigning sovereign or his wife was to be announced; but if only some member of their family, in white with black gloves.]

[Endnote 27:  Vide Historical; Archives]

[Endnote 28:  Vide Buchholz’s History of Brandenburg.]

[Endnote 29:  See von Orlich, The Great Elector, vol. i, p. 50.]

[Endnote 30:  Von Orlich, p. 53.]

[Endnote 31:  Frederick William’s own words.  See Droysen’s History of Prussian Policy, vol. in, p. 215.]

[Endnote 32:  The Elector’s own words. Vide Droysen, vol. iii, p. 217.]

[Endnote 33:  Historical. Vide Letters of the Duchess of Orleans to Countess Louise.]

[Endnote 34:  In the year 1638 a ship, on board of which were all the Electoral jewels to the amount of sixty thousand gulden, was plundered by a detachment from the corps of General Monticuculi, and all the jewels abstracted.  Count Schwarzenberg had three officers concerned in it arrested, and carried to Spandow for trial.  Although the Emperor himself desired the release of the imperial officers, the Stadtholder not only refused this, but even subjected the three officers to the torture, in order to extort from them a confession of the place where the jewels had been hid.  But they confessed nothing, meanwhile remaining in confinement until the Elector Frederick William restored to them their freedom. Vide von Orlich, The Great Elector, vol. i, p. 53.]

[Endnote 35:  Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, p. 180.]

[Endnote 36:  The Elector’s own words. Vide Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, vol. iii, p. 220.]

[Endnote 37:  The Elector’s own words.  See von Orlich, History of Prussia.]

[Endnote 38:  Burgsdorf’s own words. Vide History of Prussia, by von Orlich, vol. ii, p. 390.]

[Endnote 39:  The Elector’s own words.  See Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, vol. iii, p. 223.]

[Endnote 40:  Burgsdorf’s own words.  See ibid., p. 224.]

[Endnote 41:  The Elector’s own words.  See Droysen, vol. in, p. 223.]

[Endnote 42:  Schwarzenberg’s own words.  See Droysen, History of Prussian Politics.]

[Endnote 43:  See von Orlich, History of Prussia, vol. i, p. 60.]

[Endnote 44:  See Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, vol. in, p. 223.]

[Endnote 45:  Rochow’s own words.  See Droysen, vol. in, p. 224.]