[Footnote 14: A measure of four pints.]
[Footnote 15: "One night, when passing through the streets, he received
from the hands of an enemy an ugly wound in the face. He suspected
Geronimo of having inflicted it; in which he was mistaken, for the author
of the attack was afterwards discovered."--Matteo Bandello.]
[Footnote 16: "After Simon Turchi had determined to revenge himself, and
after long consideration, he ordered a large wooden arm-chair, to which
were attached two iron bars, so arranged that whoever should sit down in
it would be caught by the legs below the knees, and would be unable to
move."--Van Meteren, History of the Low Countries.]
[Footnote 17: "Geronimo, a merchant from Lyons desires to see you, but as
he does not wish to be known at Antwerp now, he is concealed in my garden.
He begs that you will meet him there."--Matteo Bandello.]
[Footnote 18: "This chair being made, he told one of his servants, named
Julio, who was proscribed in Italy, and under sentence of death."--Van
Meteren, History of the Low Countries.]
[Footnote 19: "And the said Julio pushed Geronimo into a large arm-chair,
which sprang and closed."--Origin and Genealogy of the Dukes and
Duchesses of Brabant. Antwerp, 1565; p. 308.]
[Footnote 20: "In the cellar ... in a grave which had been prepared by the
said Julio to bury Geronimo after the commission of the murder."--Origin
and Genealogy of the Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant.]
[Footnote 21: Order and Proclamation of Messire Van Schoonhoven, bailiff,
and of the Burgomaster, Constables, and Council of the city of Antwerp: "It having come to the knowledge of the bailiff, burgomaster, and
constables of this city that Geronimo Deodati, a merchant of Lucca, went
out yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, from his residence in this
city, near the Convent of the Dominicans, and that he was seen for the
last time beyond the Square of Meir, and since then he has not been heard
of, and we know not what has become of him, so that there is great
suspicion that the said Geronimo has been maltreated, or even put to
death; therefore, the magistrates of the same city do proclaim that he who
first will give information as to what has become of the said Geronimo,
will receive the sum of three hundred florins."--Extract from the "Book
of Laws of the City of Antwerp."]
[Footnote 22: "The bailiff said that the magistrates had determined to
search all the stables, cellars, and gardens, to discover whether the
ground in any of these places had been recently dug."--E. Van Meteren,
History of the Low Countries.]