[Footnote 8:  Du Clercq, iv., 203.]

[Footnote 9:  Du Clercq, iv., 249.]

[Footnote 10:  Du Clercq, iv., 239-262.]

[Footnote 11:  Gachard, Doc. ined., ii., 285, 322.  For letters and negotiations anterior to this peace see p. 197 et seq.]

[Footnote 12:  Duclos, v., 236.]

[Footnote 13:  Book ii., ch. i.  To-day there are only about eight thousand inhabitants.]

[Footnote 14:  In addition to Commines and Du Clercq see also Kirk, i., 385, for quotations from Borgnet and others.]

[Footnote 15:  Gachard, Doc. ined., i., 213, et passim.]

[Footnote 16:  Gachard, Doc. ined., ii., 350.]

[Footnote 17:  Est falme commune que tres haute princesse la ducesse de Bourgogne, a cause desdictes injures at conclut telle hayne sur cestedite ville de Dinant qu’elle a jure comme on dist que s’il li devoit couster tout son vaellant, fera ruynner cestedite ville en mettant toutes personnes a l’espee. (Gachard, Doc. ined., ii., 222.)]

[Footnote 18:  Gachard, Doc. ined., ii., 337, et passim.]

[Footnote 19:  Du Clercq, iv., 273.]

[Footnote 20:  He says messengers were put to death without regard to their sacred office, even a little child being torn limb from limb.  Priests were thrown into the river for refusing to say mass, and the situation was strained to the last degree.]

[Footnote 21:  Qui a mande ce vieil monnart vostre duc, etc.]

[Footnote 22:  Du Clercq, iv., 278.]

[Footnote 23:  De Ram, Documents relatifs aux troubles du pays de Liege, “Henricus de Merica,” p. 159.]

[Footnote 24:  Vel vendebantur in servos.  See De Ram et passim for documents.]

[Footnote 25:  It seems to be well attested that the prisoners were tied together and drowned.]

[Footnote 26:  Du Clercq, iv., 280.]

[Footnote 27:  Ibid., 281.]

[Footnote 28:  In 1472, a new church was erected “on the spot formerly called Dinant” and after that, little by little, the town came to life. (Gachard, Analectes Belgiques, 318, etc.).]

CHAPTER VIII

THE NEW DUKE

1467

The Good Duke’s journey to Bouvignes where he witnessed the manner in which his authority was vindicated was his last effort.  In the early summer following, on Friday, June 10th, Philip, then at Bruges, was taken ill and died on the following Monday, June 13th, between nine and ten in the evening.[1] Charles was summoned on the Sunday, and it seemed as though his horse’s hoofs hardly struck the pavement as he rode, so swift was his course on the way to Bruges.