ite Wars_, page 294.

[30] See _The House of Hohenzollern Established in
Brandenburg_, page 305.

[31] See _Deposition of Richard II_, page 251.

[32] See _Battle of Agincourt_, page 320.

[33] See _English Conquest of France_, page 320.

[34] See _Jeanne d'Arc's Victory at Orleans_, page 333.

[35] See _Trial and Execution of Jeanne d'Arc_, page 350.

[36] See _Charles VII Issues his Pragmatic Sanction_,
page 370.

[37] See _Discovery of the Canary Islands: Beginning of
Negro Slave Trade_, page 266.

[38] "I am not going to lose the men for the old women."

[39] "The coward who the great refusal made."

[40] "The beams on the low shores now lost and dead."

[41] "A death-like shade--Like that beneath black boughs
and foliage green O'er the cold stream in Alpine
glens display'd."

[42] "O'er all the sandy desert falling slow, Were
shower'd dilated flakes of fire, like snow On Alpine
summits, when the wind is low."

[43] "So will a greater fame redound to thee, To have
formed a party by thyself alone."

[44] Translated by Charles Leonard-Stuart.

[45] This Emperor was Albert I, son of Rudolph I.

[46] James van Artevelde was called "the Brewer of
Ghent," because, although born an aristocrat, he was
enrolled in the Guild of Brewers.

[47] Translated from the French by Thomas Johnes.

[48] Lord Berners' account of the advance of the Genoese
is somewhat different from this; he describes them
as _leaping_ forward with a _fell_ cry. The whole
passage is so spirited and graphic that we give it
entire:

"Whan the genowayes were assembled toguyder and
beganne to aproche, they made a great leape and crye
to abasshe thenglysshmen, but they stode styll and
styredde nat for all that. Than the genowayes agayne
the seconde tyme made another leape and a fell crye
and stepped forwarde a lytell, and thenglysshmen
remeued nat one fote; thirdly agayne they leapt and
cryed, and went forthe tyll they came within shotte;
than they shotte feersly with their crosbowes. Than
thenglysshe archers stept forthe one pase and lette
fly their arowes so hotly and so thycke that it