The spot upon which it stood is now called the "_Plain of Saint Walburga_."] [Footnote 11: In the _History of Antwerp_, by Mertens & Torfo, Part IV., chapter iii., is found a view of the city, from the banks of the Scheldt, as it was in 1556, and details concerning the principal edifices.] [Footnote 12: "Geronimo went to Simon and demanded payment of the sum lent, and for which he held a note.

Turchi made various excuses, and put off payment from day to day."-- _Matteo Bandello._] [Footnote 13: "A fierce desire of vengeance took possession of Simon, and he sought to kill Geronimo."-- _Matieo Bandello._] [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 ...