[Footnote 4: That the king chose his wife without the earl's knowledge or consent has been accepted as the chief cause, and again denied by various authorities.] [Footnote 5: See Oman's _Warwick_, p. 185.] [Footnote 6: Rymer, _Fædera_, xi., 654; negotiations had been going on for about a year.] [Footnote 7: _Ibid._, 651.] [Footnote 8: "Quia nihil est quod ita relucet in principe sicut clemencia et maxime circa domesticos et subditos."] [Footnote 9: Gachard, _Doc. inéd._, i., 216. The editor thinks that the speech was preserved in the register of Ypres just as it was delivered, untouched by chroniclers.] [Footnote 10: _Il sent la France_.] [Footnote 11: Middleburg, the 3d of June, 1470. "Madame's sign manual" on the copy is dated June 6th. (Plancher, _Histoire générale et particulière de Bourgogne_, etc., iv., cclxxi).] [Footnote 12: Good Friday, April 20th.] [Footnote 13: Gachard, _Doc. inéd_., i., 226.] [Footnote 14: Comines-Lenglet., "Preuves," iii., 124. Written at Amboise, May, 12, 1470.] [Footnote 15: Plancher, iv., cclxi., etc.] [Footnote 16: Duke Charles to the Council of the King at Rouen, May 29th. (Plancher, iv., cclxix.)] [Footnote 17: _Mémoires_, iii., ch. iv.] [Footnote 18: Duclos "Preuves," v., 296.] [Footnote 19: Chastellain, v., 453. These phrases are, to be sure, those of our literary and imaginative chronicler, but the substance is that of attested words from Charles. M, Petit-Dutaillis accepts it. (Lavisse, iv^{ii}., 363.)] [Footnote 20: _See_ Plancher, iv., cclxxxix.] [Footnote 21: Aujourd'hui avons fait le mariage de la reine d'Angleterre et de lui." Undoubtedly a half jocose way of stating the alliance of the children. The following item occurs in the King's accounts for December, 1470: "à maistre Jehan le prestre, la somme de xxvii l. x.s.t pour vingt escus d'or à lui donnée par le roy, pour le restituer de semblable somme que, par l'ordonnance d'icellui seigneur, il avait baillée du sien au vicaire de Bayeux auquel icellui seigneur en a fait don en faveur de ce qu' il estait venu espouser le prince de Galles a la fille du Comte de Warwick." This was a betrothal, not the actual marriage. In August, Louis was still asking for a dispensation. (Wavrin, Dupont ed., iii., 4I, note. See also _Lettres de Louis XI_., iv., 131.)] [Footnote 22: A group of smaller seigniories was also involved, Quercy, Périgord, La Rochelle, etc. _See_ letter-patent, (Comines-Lenglet, "Preuves," iii., 97.)] [Footnote 23: Duclos, "Preuves" v., 302.] [Footnote 24: Comines-Lenglet, "Preuves," iii., 68; Lavisse, iv^{ii}, 364.] [Footnote 25: _See_ Lavisse iv^{ii}, 364. He states that the king named all the deputies that the towns were to appoint.] [Footnote 26: Duclos, "Preuves," v., 307.] [Footnote 27: Commines, iii., ch. v.] [Footnote 28: Commines, iii., ch. vi.] [Footnote 29: _See_ instructions given to him for this mission, Wavrin-Dupont, iii., 271.] [Footnote 30: Commines, iii., ch. vii.]