g Theatrum_, p. 598.]

[Footnote 12: Toutey, p. 57.]

[Footnote 13: Toutey, p. 60, note.]

[Footnote 14: In this account, differing from the current
tradition, Toutey has followed Bachmann's conclusions (_Deutsche
Reichsgeschichte,_ ii., 435).]

[Footnote 15: Basin, ii., 325.]

[Footnote 16: Preserved in the municipal archives in Frankfort (nr.
5808 or ch. lit. clausa c. sig in verso impr.). This is published by
Karl Schellhass in _Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtewissenschaft,_
(1891) pp. 80-85. The language is a queer mixture of German and
Latin.]

[Footnote 17: Charles asked on October 23d, through his chancellor,
for investiture into Savoy. (Note by Schellhass.)]

[Footnote 18: Under this head is meant Lorraine, which he alleged had
lapsed to the emperor at the death of Nicholas of Calabria.]

[Footnote 19: This means the throne from which Charles was to step
down to receive the fief.]

[Footnote 20: "Loquitur etiam ferunt de regnis Frisiae et Burgundiae
sibi constituendes quae audissimis auribus accepta visus non tam negare
imperator quam dissimulare.

"Nam et ad eam [majestatem regiam] aspirare et ditiones suas velle
in duo regna partiri visue Burgundiae et Frisiae: in hoc Hollandia,
Zelandia, Gelria, Brabantia, Limburgum, Namureum, Hannonia et dioceses
Leodiensis, Cameracensis et Trajectina: altero Burgundia, Luxemburgum,
Arthesia, Flandria, ecclesaeque cathedrales Sadunensis, Tullensis
Verdunensis essent." (P. 1131.)

Renier Snoy was born the year of Charles's death, so that his
statement is tradition but founded on what he might have heard from
eye-witnesses.]

[Footnote 21: Chmel, i., 49-51; Toutey, p. 59.]

CHAPTER XVIII

COLOGNE, LORRAINE, AND ALSACE

1473-1474

Late as it was in November, the weather was still very mild, and as
the emperor and duke travelled in opposite directions, neither the
former as he went down to Cologne, nor the latter as he passed up
the valley of the Moselle to that of the Ell, was hindered by autumn
storms. The summer of 1473 had been marked by unprecedented heat and
a prolonged drouth.[1] Forest fires raged unchecked on account of the
dearth of water and, for the same reason, the mills stood still.
The grape crops, indeed, were prodigious, but the vintage was not
profitable because the wine had a tendency to sour. Gentle rains
in September prepared the ground for an untimely fertility. Trees
blossomed and, though some fruits withered prematur