[Footnote 40: According to Sabas Malaspina, (Hist. Sicula,
l. iii. c. 16, in Muratori, tom. viii. p. 832,) a zealous
Guelph, the subjects of Charles, who had reviled Mainfroy as
a wolf, began to regret him as a lamb; and he justifies
their discontent by the oppressions of the French
government, (l. vi. c. 2, 7.) See the Sicilian manifesto in
Nicholas Specialis, (l. i. c. 11, in Muratori, tom. x. p.
930.)]