[Footnote 51: Tronquoy,--a village in Picardy, near Mondidier.]
[Footnote 52: Ecouis,--a market-town in Vexin Norman, eight leagues
from Rouen.]
[Footnote 53: Gaillarbois.--near Ecouis.]
[Footnote 54: Château Chinon,--in the Nivernois, capital of Morvaut.]
[Footnote 55: Pecquigny,--three leagues from Amiens, on the road from
Calais to Paris.]
[Footnote 56: Comines says, that they saluted each other most
respectfully,--and that, during the stay of Edward, Louis was very
anxious to avoid showing any appearance of ridiculing the English.]
[Footnote 57: 'A.D. 1475. With fifteen hundred nobles and gentlemen,
and fourteen thousand archers on horseback, besides a numerous body on
foot, did Edward (IV.) invade the dominions of France from Calais. Had
the king been steady, his allies faithful, and his courtiers honest,
nothing but a miracle could have saved the dastardly detested Louis
(XI.) But the admirable policy of that king, never displayed before
or since (on so honest an occasion), the want of conduct in Burgundy
and sincerity in St Pol, together with the atrocious corruption of
the english nobles and indolence of Edward, combined to rescue the
monarchy of France from utter ruin. Louis most wisely abandoned every
punctilio, suffered with patience the insolence of the invaders, bribed
judiciously with an unsparing hand, consented to an immediate payment
of 75,000 crowns, and an annual tribute of 50,000,--and at length sent
his enemies, defeated of their expectations and covered with ridicule,
to wait the effect of promises which were never meant to be performed.'
_Andrews' Hist. of England._]
[Footnote 58: Comines calls him sir John Cheam and Chaney.]