Footnote 1: The pistole at this period was worth £3 6s. 6d.
Footnote 2: Brantôme, who lived shortly after Charles V.'s time, says all the other monarchs called him this because he never kept a treaty, and cheated everybody.
Footnote 3: Now the 1st (Royal) Dragoons.
Footnote 4: The Mousquetaires Noirs and Gris were thus described from the colour of their horses. They were thecorps d'éliteof France. The one had been established by Louis XIV., the other by Mazarin.