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Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Ajoining Countries (10)
Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England France Spain and the Ajoining Countries - 10 Author:Jean Froissart Subtitle: From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward Ii to the Coronation of Henry Iv. Volume: 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1808 Subjects: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 France Great Britain Flanders Burgundy (France) Europe History / Europe / France History / Europe / Great Britain ... more » History / Medieval Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE CHRONICLES ' OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, $c. .. CHAP. I. SIR JOHN DE CHATEL-MORANT BttlNGS FROM ENGLAND THE TRUCES FOR THREE YEARS, SEALED BY KING RICHARD AND HIS ALLIES. LEWIS OF ANJOU, KING OF SICILY, IS BE- TROTHED AND MARRIED TO A DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF AllRAGON. AFTER this grand feftival, and when the lords and ladies,, who had affifted at it, were re- turned to their caftles, the lord de Chatel-morant, whom the lord de Saint-Pol had left in England, arrived at Paris with the truces, figned by the king of England and his allies. He delivered to the king and his minifters the charter of the truce ' that was to laft for three years, and read aloud its contents in the prefence of . the lord de Coucy, who was lieutenant for the king, to guard and de- fend all the country, from the Pordogne to the. fea, including Auvergne and Limoufin. All who Vol. X. B fhould jhould infringe, or any way break this treaty, or caufe it to be broken, whatever were his rank, - would be confidered as a traitor, and incur punifh- ment of death. The lord de Coucy had alfo a copy delivered to him, to fhew, if neceffary, to thofe garrifons in Ventadoar, Chaluget, Orbefi, Donzachf, who were carrying on war under name of the Englifh, that they might not have any caufe of excufe, and i...« less