[1] 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.
[2] A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape.
[3] Haberdasher
[4] 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.
[5] It was called the Palais-Cardinal before Richelieu gave it to the King.