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We are well aware that this term, milady, is only properly used when followed by a family name. But we find it thus in the manuscript, and we do not choose to take upon ourselves to alter it. ↩ + 

A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape. ↩ + 

Haberdasher. ↩ + 

The reader may ask, “How came Planchet here?” when he was left “stiff as a rush” in London. In the intervening time Buckingham perhaps sent him to Paris, as he did the horses. ↩ + 

It was called the Palais-Cardinal before Richelieu gave it to the king. ↩ + 

Attorney. ↩ + 

Fort La Pointe, or Fort Vasou, was not built until 1672, nearly 50 years later. ↩ + 