Meinrad, according to legend, lived there (ninth
century) as a hermit. It is a celebrated pilgrim
resort.--ED.

[73] He descended from Henry III both by father and
mother. But he could not claim by the father's side,
because the young Earl of March was sprung from the
Duke of Clarence, the elder brother of John of
Gaunt; nor by the mother's side, because she was
sprung from Edmund of Lancaster, a younger brother
of Edward I. It was pretended that Edmund was the
elder brother, but deformed in body, and therefore
set aside with his own consent. If we may believe
Hardyng, Henry on September 21st produced in council
a document to prove the seniority of Edmund over
Edward, but that the contrary was shown by a number
of unanswerable authorities.

[74] Charles IV.

[75] Allusion to John Ziska, leader of the Hussites, who
waged a fierce war against Wenzel and the empire.

[76] Head of the House of Hohenzollern, Burggraves of
Nuremberg.

[77] This was the Dauphin, afterward Charles VII, whose
brother Jean, Duke of Burgundy, had, in 1407,
procured the murder of the Duke of Orleans.

[78] To _houspiller_ is to maul, pull about, abuse,
"worry like a dog"; hence the name _houspilleur_.

[79] The English cardinal, most powerful ecclesiastic of
the time.

[80] Assistant judges.

[81] Tipstaffs, constables.

[82] The Duke of Bedford (John of Lancaster), third son
of Henry IV of England, was regent of England and
France, which office he assumed on the death of
Henry V, in 1422.

[83] The memory of Jeanne d'Arc was long and shamefully
traduced by descendants of those enemies of France
whom she baffled. Even Shakespeare (_Henry VI_) is
so unjust to her--refining upon the brutal calumnies
of the historians--as to grieve his most loving
critics. It remained for the opening years of the
twentieth century to see the Maid canonized by the
Church which, as the agent of her country's foes,
was instrumental in her destruction.--ED.

[84] Translated by Chauncey C. Starkweather, M.A., LL.B.

[85] The Catalan Grand Company was a formidable body of
me