[Footnote 3: II., ch. xiii.] [Footnote 4: Commines, ii., ch. xiii.] [Footnote 5: Oudenbosch, _Veterum scriptorum, etc. Amplissima Collectio_, ed. E. Martene, iv. Rerum Leodiensim. Opus Adriani de Veteri Busco, p. 1343. The writer acknowledges that the story is hearsay.] [Footnote 6: "_Non cessero di cavalchare senza fare demoia alcuna. Lettres,iii_., 300.] [Footnote 7: Commines, ii., ch. xiv.] [Footnote 8: "_O proeclarum et memorabile facinus hujus regis Francorum_."] [Footnote 9: Basin, _Histoire des règnes de Charles VII. et de Louis XI_., Quicherat ed., ii., 204. This also appears in _Excerpta ex Amelgardi. De gestis Ludovici XI_., cap. xxiii. Martene's _Amplissima Collectio,_ iv., 740 _et seq_.] [Footnote 10: Quoted in Kirk, i., 606, note.] [Footnote 11: Jean de Roye, _Chronique Scandaleuse_, ed. Mandrot, i., 220.] [Footnote 12: Comines-Lenglet, iii., 83.] [Footnote 13: Johannes de Los, _Chronicon_, p. 60. _Quia hora nendum venerat._ De Ram, "Troubles du pays de Liége."] [Footnote 14: Commynes-Dupont, _Preuves_, iii., 242. Letter of Jehan de Mazilles to his sister.] [Footnote 15: Hagenbach, later Governor of Alsace.] [Footnote 16: _Conte aux escros_. This word strictly applies to the prisoners on a jailer's list--evidently used in jest.] CHAPTER XIII A NEW ACQUISITION 1469-1473 This successful expedition against Liege carried Charles of Burgundy to the very crest of his prosperity. His self-esteem was moreover gratified by the regard shown to him at home and abroad. A man who could force a royal neighbour into playing the pitiful rôle enacted by Louis XI. at Peronne was assuredly a man to be respected if not loved. And messages of admiration and respect couched in various terms were despatched from many quarters to the duke as soon as he was at Brussels to receive them. Ghent had long since made apologies for the sorry reception accorded to their incoming Count of Flanders in 1467, but Charles had postponed the formal _amende_ until a convenient moment of leisure. January 15, 1469, was finally appointed for this ceremony and the occasion was utilised to show the duke's grandeur, the city's humiliation, to as many people as possible who might spread the report far and wide. It was a Sunday. Out in the courtyard of the palace the snow was thick on the ground where a group of Ghent burghers cooled their heels for an hour and a half, awaiting a summons to the ducal presence. There, too, where every one could see those emblems of the artisans' corporate strength, fluttered fifty-two banners unfurled before the deans of the Ghentish _métiers_.[1]