[Footnote 1:  Blok, Eene Hollandsche stad onder de Bourg.  Oostenrijksche Heerschappij, p. 84.]

[Footnote 2:  La Marche, ii., 79, etc.]

[Footnote 3:  See also Chronijcke van Nederlant, p. 76, and Vlaamsche Kronijk, p. 203.  Ed. C. Piot.]

[Footnote 4:  D’Escouchy, Chronique, i., 110.]

[Footnote 5:  The items of the funeral expenses can be found in Laborde, i., 380.  There were 600 masses at two sous apiece.]

[Footnote 6:  In that same year, 1440, in which this gift is recorded, there is another item showing how Charles took his amusement not only on the harp but in planning some of the elaborate surprises regularly introduced between courses in the banquets.  “To Barthelmy the painter, for making the cover of a pasty for the Count of Charolais to present to Monseigneur on the night of St. Martin in the previous year, v francs” (Laborde, i., 381).]

[Footnote 7:  La Marche, ii., 214.]

[Footnote 8:  Gachard puts this tournament in Lent, 1452.  Charles’s outfit cost 360 livres.]

[Footnote 9:  La Marche, i., ch. 21.]

[Footnote 10:  Kervyn, Histoire de Flandre, iv.  Kervyn quotes from the Dagboek des gentsche collatie, M. Schayes.]

[Footnote 11:  Meyer, xvi., 303.]

[Footnote 12:  They were charged with using this phrase.  Gachard says that they placed at the top of their letter their titles of sheriffs and deans, as princes and lords take the title of their seignories.—­(La Marche, ii., 221. See also d’Escouchy, ii., 25.)]

[Footnote 13:  La Marche, ii., 230.]

[Footnote 14:  Associations of merchants in foreign cities.]

[Footnote 15:  Chastellain, OEuvres, ii., 221.]

[Footnote 16:  La Marche, ii., 312.  Chastellain, ii., 278.  See also Chronique d’Adrian de Budt, p. 242, etc.]

[Footnote 17:  Meyer, p. 313.  La Marche, ii., 313.  Lavisse, Histoire de France, accepts 13,000 as the number slain.  Chastellain (ii., 375) puts the number at 22-30,000, including those drowned by the duke’s order.  Du Clercq lets a certain sympathy for the rebellious people escape his pen.  Chastellain and La Marche treat the antagonism to taxes as unreasonable.]

[Footnote 18:  Chastellain, ii., 387.]

[Footnote 19:  La Marche, ii., 331.  The Chastellain MS. is lacking for this event.]

[Footnote 20:  Revue des societes savantes des departements, 7me. serie, 6, p. 209.

These two reports were enclosed with brief notes dated July 31 and August 8, 1453, from the ducal attorney at Amont to the magistrates of Baume.  The former was one of the highest officials in the Franche-Comte.  The reporter might have been one of his secretaries.  The two notes with their unsigned enclosures were discovered (1881)in the archives of the town of Baume-les-Dames.]