[Endnote 46:  This whole scene is historical.  See von Orlich, History of Prussia, vol. i, p. 59.]

[Endnote 47:  Count Schwarzenberg was buried in the Tillage church at Spandow, his entrails in a separate case beside him.  The sudden and unexpected death of the Stadtholder excited uncommon attention through Germany, and a report was circulated that upon the count’s retiring to Spandow on account of ill health the Elector had caused him to be arrested, and secretly beheaded in prison.  Even as late as the times of Frederick the Great this report was commonly believed, and Frederick, when he wished to write a history of the reigning house, had the count’s coffin opened to ascertain whether the head was separate from the body.  No trace of a violent severing of the head from the body was, however, discovered.  See Pollnitz, Memoirs, vol. iv, p. 40; Droysen, vol. in, p. 232.]

[Endnote 48:  See Droysen, History of Prussian Polities.]

[Endnote 49:  See Droysen, vol. iii, p. 239.]

[Endnote 50:  Droysen, vol. iii, p. 237.]

[Endnote 51:  See Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, vol. iii, p. 236.]

[Endnote 52:  See von Orlich, History of Prussia, vol. i, p. 61.]

[Endnote 53:  The Elector’s own words.]

[Endnote 54:  The Elector’s own words.  See von Orlich, History of Prussia, vol. vi, p. 77.]