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SIR JOHN FROISSART Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.3

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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.3
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ftrongly folicited by the great lords of Guyenne «1 the other hand, who demonftrated to him the extortions of the Englifh, and the great loffes which this might in future occafion to him, the truth of which he well knew. What appeared to affeS him the moft, in beginning this war, was his con-federation for the deftfuâion of his poor people, which might continue. for a long time, and the dangers and opprobrium which his nobles had fuf* fered from the laft war. CHAP, ecxivii: THE DUKE OF BERRY AND SEVERAL MORE LORDS, WHO HAD BEEN HOSTAGES IN ENGLAND, RE* ~ TURN TO FRANCE. ^HE king of France and his council, not regard* ing the haughty anfwer from the prince of Wales, made every preparation which might be neceffary for the grand event about to take place. At this period, the lord John of France, duke of Berry had returned home, through the favor of the king of England, who had granted him permiffion to remain a year in France. He afted fo prudently, and made fo many different excufes, that he never went back ; for the war fpeedily broke out, as you will hear related. Sir John de Harcourt had alfo returned to his own country, where his eftates had been granted * him, through the felicitations of fir Louis de Har-court his uncle, who wfc from Poitou, and at the • il time


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