[Footnote 4: Jacques de Hemricourt suggested four chief points of
difficulty in Liege government:

1. The size of the council--two hundred, where twenty would do.

2. The equal voice granted to all gilds without regard to size, when
all were assembled by the council to vote on a matter.

3. Extension of franchise to youths of fifteen.

4. Facile naturalisation laws. (_See_ Kirk, i., 325.)]

[Footnote 5: In many cases when the interdict was imposed, it is
probable that it was only partially operative.]

[Footnote 6: See Victor Hugo, _Le Rhin_, i. The Walloon dialect varies
greatly between the towns. Here are a few words of the "Prodigal Son"
as they are written in Liege, Huy, and Lille:

LIEGE. Jésus lizi d'ha co: In homme aveut deux fis. Li pus jone dérit
à s'père: père dinnez-m'con qui m'dent riv' ni di vosse bin; et l'père
lezi partagea s'bin.

HUY. Jésus l'zi d'ha co: Eun homme avut deux fis. Li peus jone dérit a
s'père etc.

LILLE. Jesus leu dit incore: un homme avot deux garchens. L'pus jeune
dit à sin père-mon père donez me ch que j'dor recouvre d'vo bien; et
l'père leu-z-a doné a chacun leu parchen.