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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.5

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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.5
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' aii CHÀP. Lin. ARNOUL LE CLERC, CAPTAIN OF SOME TROOPS OF WHITE HOODS, DEFEATS SEVERAL OF THE EARL OF FLANDERS' NOBILITY. HE HIMSELF IS AFTERWARDS DEFEATED AND SLAIN. XX7HEN Peter du Bois and the Ghent army found * * that it was not the earl's intention to ad-vance againft them, they departed from Deynfe and Nevele, and took a roundabout road towards Oudenarde, on their return to Ghent. Thç day tney paffed Oudenarde, they detached a body from the army, under the command of Arnoul le Clerc, who advanced as far as the barriers of the town to fkirmifh. The knights and fquires within could not refift combating with them, fo that many were flain and wounded on both fides. But thofe from Ghent did not continue the fkirmifh long: they returned to Ghent with their men, when each re-» tired to his own houfe. Three days after, Arnoul le Clerc marched to Gavre with about twelve hundred white hoods ; and the caftle and caftlcwick were garrifoned, to keep in check thofe in Oudenarde. Arnoul le Clerc had not been there long before he was informed that fome knights and fquires had fallied out of Oude-X 4 nardc


          
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