[Footnote 2:  From Henry VI.-Henry VII. the English throne was twice lost and twice regained by each of the rival Houses of York and Lancaster.  Thirteen pitched battles were fought between Englishmen on English soil.  Three out of four kings died by violence.  Eighty persons connected with the blood royal were executed or assassinated.]

[Footnote 3:  Ramsay, Lancaster and York, ii., 232 et seq.; Oman, Hundred Years’ War and Warwick, the King-maker, are followed here in addition to Kirk, Lavisse, etc.]

[Footnote 4:  That the king chose his wife without the earl’s knowledge or consent has been accepted as the chief cause, and again denied by various authorities.]

[Footnote 5:  See Oman’s Warwick, p. 185.]

[Footnote 6:  Rymer, Faedera, xi., 654; negotiations had been going on for about a year.]

[Footnote 7:  Ibid., 651.]

[Footnote 8:  “Quia nihil est quod ita relucet in principe sicut clemencia et maxime circa domesticos et subditos.”]

[Footnote 9:  Gachard, Doc. ined., i., 216.  The editor thinks that the speech was preserved in the register of Ypres just as it was delivered, untouched by chroniclers.]

[Footnote 10:  Il sent la France.]

[Footnote 11:  Middleburg, the 3d of June, 1470.  “Madame’s sign manual” on the copy is dated June 6th. (Plancher, Histoire generale et particuliere de Bourgogne, etc., iv., cclxxi).]

[Footnote 12:  Good Friday, April 20th.]

[Footnote 13:  Gachard, Doc. ined., i., 226.]

[Footnote 14:  Comines-Lenglet., “Preuves,” iii., 124.  Written at Amboise, May, 12, 1470.]

[Footnote 15:  Plancher, iv., cclxi., etc.]

[Footnote 16:  Duke Charles to the Council of the King at Rouen, May 29th. (Plancher, iv., cclxix.)]

[Footnote 17:  Memoires, iii., ch. iv.]

[Footnote 18:  Duclos “Preuves,” v., 296.]

[Footnote 19:  Chastellain, v., 453.  These phrases are, to be sure, those of our literary and imaginative chronicler, but the substance is that of attested words from Charles.  M, Petit-Dutaillis accepts it.  (Lavisse, iv^{ii}., 363.)]

[Footnote 20:  See Plancher, iv., cclxxxix.]

[Footnote 21:  Aujourd’hui avons fait le mariage de la reine d’Angleterre et de lui.”  Undoubtedly a half jocose way of stating the alliance of the children.  The following item occurs in the King’s accounts for December, 1470:  “a maistre Jehan le prestre, la somme de xxvii l. x.s.t pour vingt escus d’or a lui donnee par le roy, pour le restituer de semblable somme que, par l’ordonnance d’icellui seigneur, il avait baillee du sien au vicaire de Bayeux auquel icellui seigneur en a fait don en faveur de ce qu’ il estait venu espouser le prince de Galles a la fille du Comte de Warwick.”  This was a betrothal, not the actual marriage.  In August, Louis was still asking for a dispensation.  (Wavrin, Dupont ed., iii., 4I, note.  See also Lettres de Louis XI., iv., 131.)]