[Footnote 1:  De Roye, p. 105.]

[Footnote 2:  He also issued administrative orders.  It was at this time that he instituted a high court of justice and a chamber of accounts at Mechlin, both designed to serve for all the Netherland provinces.  This measure was bitterly resented by the local authorities.  (Fredericq. Le role politique et social des ducs de Bourgogne, p. 183.)]

[Footnote 3:  Letters are preserved in the Cologne archives. (Toutey, p. 64.)]

[Footnote 4:  Toutey, p. 66.  This document is in the Cologne archives.]

[Footnote 5:_See_ Toutey, p. 66.  These are printed in Lacomblet, Urkunden, iv., 468, 470.]

[Footnote 6:  Jean de Roye is the only contemporary to tell this story.  Both Toutey and Kirk reject it. (See Toutey, p. 76; Kirk, ii., 271.)]

[Footnote 7:  Toutey’s suggestion.]

[Footnote 8:  All sons inherited their father’s title, so that there were many landless lords.]

[Footnote 9:  At this period there were eight in the confederation, which was a loose structure in which each member preserved her individuality.]

[Footnote 10:  See Toutey, p. 82, who quotes from the Cartulaire de Mulhouse, iv., et passim.  This last furnishes the details for these passages.]

[Footnote 11:  In this account Toutey’s conclusions are accepted.  There are discrepancies as to dates among the various chroniclers.  The duke’s itinerary as given in Comines-Lenglet (ii., 211) does not agree with that of Knebel and others.  But the facts of the narrative are little affected by the variations.  The following is the itinerary accepted by Toutey: 

Dep. from Ensisheim Jan. 8
Stay at Thann " 9-10
Dep. from Belfort " 11
Besancon " 17
Auxonne, slept " 18
Dijon, a " 23
Dijon, d Feb. 19, 1474
Auxonne, slept " 20
Dole " 21-March 8
(Invested with the Franche Comte of Burgundy.)
Besancon March 12 or 15
Vesoul and Luxeuil March 23-28
Lorraine " 28
Luxemburg Apr. 4-June 9
Easter fetes " 10
Fete of the Order of the Garter " 23
Brussels June 27]

[Footnote 12:  Kirk considers that they are well founded and too indecent to repeat.]

CHAPTER XIX

THE FIRST REVERSES

1474-1475

“Who is this that cometh, this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength?” These words in Latin, on scrolls fluttering from the hands of living angels, met the eyes of Charles of Burgundy at his retarded arrival in Dijon.  And the confident duke had no wish to disclaim the subtle flattery of the implied comparison between him and the subject of the words of the prophet.[1]