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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.4

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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.4
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CHAP. n. SIR JOHN CHANDOS DOES GREAT MISCHIEF TO THE PROVINCE OF ANJOU. HE DESPOILS THE ESTATES OF THE VISCOUNT DE ROCHE-CHOU-ART, EXCEPT THE FORTRESSES AND STRONG HOLDS. T\URING the time of this expedition to Tour-nehem, and in that neighbourhood, fome feats of arms were performed in Poitou, which ought not to be forgotten. Sir John Chandos, being fénéfchal of Poitou, and a hardy and valiant knight, had a great defire to meet the French : he therefore did not remain long idle, but colleft-ed, during the time he paffed arPoitiers, a body of men at arms, Englifh and Poitevins, and faid he would make an incurfion with them towards Anjou, and return by Touraine, to look at the French who were aflembled in thofe parts. He fent infor-mation of the expedition he meditated to the earl of Pembroke, who was in garrifon at Montagne * fur mer, with two hundred lances. The earl was much pleafed with this intelli-gence, and would willingly have been of the party j but his attendants and fome knights of his council prevented him. by faying ; 1 My lord, you are a young and noble knight, formed to excel : if you * Montagne,—a town in Saintpnge, on the Garonne. at


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