[Footnote 24: Halle,--a town three leagues from Brussels.]
[Footnote 25: The cause of the king's ridiculous order to seize all the
tame magpies in Paris was owing to many of the Parisians having taught
them to cry 'Peronne!' whence he had so narrowly escaped from the duke
of Burgundy.]
[Footnote 26: A sergeant fieffé,--Cotgrave says, was an hereditary
sergeant employed in the collection of taxes, &c.]
[A.D. 1469.]