IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. The Contemporary French Tract entitled "The by Charles, Duke of Orleans: TRANSLATED FOR THE FIRST TIME INTO ENGLISH; WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AN INQUIRY INTO THE AUTHORSHIP, ETC. BY HENRY PYNE. LONDON: 1870. All rights reserved. N ORDER to avoid embarrassing with details the translation which follows, such foot-notes only are inserted as will suffice to explain the text, and to point out the few errors of fact which occur in it. Inasmuch, however, as the text is suggestive, and occasionally raises a question as to the truth of a prevalent opinion, some further notes are added by way of appendix, for the purpose of illustrating the subjects which have appeared worthy of attention. Yet even here conciseness has been attended to; and a reader, instead of finding full information, will sometimes be referred to other works in which it is |