[Footnote 4: Dordrecht was not among them. Her deputies held that it was illegal for them to go to The Hague. Some time later Charles received the oaths at Dordrecht. (Wagenaar, _Vaderlandsche Hist._, iv., 101.] [Footnote 5: Treaty of Ancenis, September 10, 1468. _See_ Lavisse, iv^[ii].] One of the results of the War of Public Weal was that St. Pol was appointed constable of France.] [Footnote 6: The original is in the Mss. de Baluze, Paris, Bibl. Nat.; Lenglet, iii., 19.] [Footnote 7: Commines and a letter to the magistrates of Ypres are the basis of this narrative. (Gachard, _Doc. inéd._, i., 196.) There is, however, a mass of additional material both contemporaneous and commentating. _See also_ Michelet, Lavisse, Kirk, etc. Chastellain's MS. is lost.] [Footnote 8: _See_ Lavisse, iv^[ii]., 397.] [Footnote 9: Ludwig v. Diesbach, (_See_ Kirk, i., 559.) The author was a page in Louis's train, who afterwards played a part in Swiss affairs.] [Footnote 10: It was never captured until Wellington took it in 1814.] [Footnote 11: Commines, ii., ch. vii.] [Footnote 12: The bishop did indeed meet his death at the hands of the mob, but it was many years later.] [Footnote 13: _Le roi ... se voyait logé, rasibus d'une grosse tour ou un Comte de Vermandois fit mourir un sien prédécesseur Roy de France_. (Commines, ii., ch. vii.)] [Footnote 14: _Memoires_, ii., ch. ix.] [Footnote 15: Undoubtedly Commines wishes it to be inferred that this was he. The main narrative followed here is Commines, whose memoirs remain, as Ste.-Beuve says, the definitive history of the times. There are the errors inevitable to any contemporary statement. Meyer, to be sure, says, apropos of an incident incorrectly reported, _Falsus in hoc ut in pluribus historicus_. Kervyn de Lettenhove three centuries later is also severe. _See_, too, "L'autorité historique de Ph. de Commynes," Mandrot, _Rev. Hist_., 73.] [Footnote 16: Gachard, _Doc. inéd._, i., 199.] [Footnote 17: _Ibid._, 200.] [Footnote 18: _Waer ic certiffiere dat het dezen nacht niet wel claer ghestaen heeft._] [Footnote 19: _Lettres de Louis XI_, iii., 289. The king apparently never resented the part played by Dammartin when he was dauphin. His letters to him are very intimate.] [Footnote 20: _Lettres_, iii., 295. (Toussaint is probably Toustain.)] [Footnote 21: Kervyn ed., _Oeuvres de Chastellain_, vii., xviii. _See_ poem, _ibid._, 423. The MS. in the Laurentian Library at Florence bears this line: "Here follows a mystery made because of the said peace of good intention in the thought that it would be observed by the parties." Hesdin is, however, a long way out of the route between Peronne and Namur, where the party was on October 14th. It would hardly seem possible for journey and visit in so brief a time.] CHAPTER XII AN EASY VICTORY 1468