DEUXIÈME PARTIE. NOTES. I

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h 6. à commandement^ *' to order."

1, 7. Humbercourt est tué, &c. The scène of the Bishop's murder, in Quentin Z>«rwan/, though wildly unhistorical in détails, will answer fairly to what was reported to hâve happened.

L 19. le pape qui„Jui était favorable. The papal legate was now trying to restore peace to Liège.

1. 21. du duc de Bourbon. Besides his own dominions, the Duke of Bourbon was govemor of Guienne.

L aç. le légat. Onofrio di Santa-Croce, Bishop of Tricaria.

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1. \i. rasibus, from ras, with a mock-Latin termination — "over against.** Au ras de is on a level with,

1. 13. un comte de V€rmandais,..un roi de France. Charles the Simple was imprisoned at Péronne by Heribert or Herbert, Count of Vermandois, and died there, 929.

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1. 6. écorcheurs. Thç écorcheurs, or '* flayers,'* so called from their plundering habits, were the bands of soldiers who fought against the English, and were as harmful to friend as to foe. When Charles VII. formed a r^[ular army, he put dowin thèse écorcheurs.

1. II. qu^en le tuant on Peut moins tuéy " that he would hâve been less effectually kiUed if slain outright.''