v.] [Footnote 5: The inhabitants of Antwerp are experienced and skilled in commercial affairs, and although they may not have left their own country the greater part of them, even the women, can speak four, five, and sometimes seven different languages.] [Footnote 6: "The nobles of Netherlands do not engage in commerce like the Italian noblemen from Venice, Florence, Genoa, and Lucca."-- L.
Guiccardini, _Description of the Low Countries_, p.

140.] [Footnote 7: "Two well-known Italian merchants, both of noble birth, natives of Lucca, who were great friends." Van Mertens, _History of the Low Countries_, Vol.

I.] [Footnote 8: The bailiff (schoat) was the representative of the prince in the prosecution of crimes.

He alone, and his agents by his orders, could make arrests, except in cases of flagrant crime or of persons lying in wait.

This high functionary was also called the _margrave_, because the margrave of the Low Countries was, in virtue of that office, the bailiff of the city of Antwerp.] [Footnote 9: "It is estimated that three thousand new houses were either erected by himself, or by others through his assistance."-- Mertens & Torfo, _History of Antwerp_.] [Footnote 10: This church was demolished at the commencement of this century.