Charles the Bold - Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
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[Footnote 5: The items of the funeral expenses can be found in
Laborde, i., 380. There were 600 masses at two sous apiece.] [Footnote 6: In that same year, 1440, in which this gift is recorded, there is another item showing how Charles took his amusement not only on the harp but in planning some of the elaborate surprises regularly introduced between courses in the banquets. "To Barthelmy the painter, for making the cover of a pasty for the Count of Charolais to present to Monseigneur on the night of St. Martin in the previous year, v francs" (Laborde, i., 381).] [Footnote 7: La Marche, ii., 214.] [Footnote 8: Gachard puts this tournament in Lent, 1452. Charles's outfit cost 360 livres.] [Footnote 9: La Marche, i., ch. 21.] [Footnote 10: Kervyn, _Histoire de Flandre_, iv. Kervyn quotes from the _Dagboek des gentsche collatie_, M. Schayes.] [Footnote 11: Meyer, xvi., 303.] [Footnote 12: They were charged with using this phrase. Gachard says that they placed at the top of their letter their titles of sheriffs and deans, as princes and lords take the title of their seignories.--(La Marche, ii., 221. _See also_ d'Escouchy, ii., 25.)] [Footnote 13: La Marche, ii., 230.] |
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