ai. choses flottantes, "confusion

1. 3a mauvais denier, the "ill penny," as the exorbitant customs duties in England were called maletolte or ill toll. But this duty of Hagenbach's seems as a fact only to hâve been put upon wine.

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1. 9. de ce moment* As the Council of Berne had invited Louis XI. to send envoys in May, 1470, the subséquent remark of Charles is hardly likely to hâve been the cause of the treaty.

1. I a. // fC y avait rien que cC ajourné, ** the quarrel was only put off." 1. 32. il faut les tenir ferme^ ** they must be kept in order."

1. 9. qu^au reste, ils le suivissent à Dijon. This statement, and the whole account of Charles' arrogance to the Swiss envoys, is a fabrication of Diebold Schilling, the Swiss chronicler, inserted to justify the attack of the Swiss on Burgundy. The envoys' own reports prove that they

were receiyed with the greatest honour, and that they were sent back with a friendly answer from Alsace. Hagenbach himself showed them every attention.

1.13. ^^^j</^»f//j^rj, "guilds," trade-corporations. The àatmers were the insignia of the guilds.

autrement diti "or in other words."

1. 32. Sigismond, Duke of Austria, who had pawned Alsace to Charles the Bold.

1. 25. la rude affaire de Saint-yacques, when Louis, as Dauphin, took the side of Austria against the Swiss in 1444. A handful of Swiss attacked his army, and fought to the last man*