- df Wales fating mit a lew-days after this event for the-war in Spain, Froiflart accompanied him to Dax, where the prince-refided fome time. He expelled to have attended him during the continuance of this grand expedition; but • the prnce .would not .permit him-to go farther, and fhortly after his arrival fent him *back hrthe -queen Jbis mother. - Froiflart could not have made any long ftay in England, for the following year he was at different Italian courts. It was this lame year, that is to fayt I SOT, that Lionel duke of Clarence, fon of the king of England, efpoufed Joland, daughter of Galeazzo IL duke of Milan. The marriage was . celebrated the 25th of April, and Lionel died the 17th of Oélober - following, • Froiflart, who probably was in hit fuite, was prefent at the • magnificent reeeptien which Amadeus count de Savoye, furnamed the » Count Verd, gave him on his return : he defcribes the fcafts on this occafion, which lafted three days, and he does not forget to tell us that • they danced a virelay of his compofition. From the court of Savoy he returned to Milan, where the fame count . Amadeus gave him a handfome Cottehardie*, with twenty florins of gold; and thence he went'to Bologna and Ferrara, where, he received forty ducats from the king of Cyprus, and then to Rome. . Inftead of the modeft equipage with which We have feen him travel into Scotland, he was now a man of importance, travelling on a handfôme horfe aUended'-by-a hackney. It was about this period that Froiflart experienced a lofs for which nothing could compenfate. Philippa of Hainault, queen of England, - who had loaded him with wealth, died in 1369. He compofed a lay on tMs melancholy event, of which, however, he was not a witnefs ; for he fays in another place, that m 1395, it was twenty-feven years fince he had feen England* According to fevcral authorsf,"he wrote the life of queen Philippa; bttt-thi8«flèrtion.is not founded on any proofs. " " - • •" " •"1 • ""1 •» * » # Or, as it is moue often written,. Cdtardie9—a fort of duds common to men and women : litre it. means a Powpoipt. This was one of the a£h of generolity which great lonis were accuftomcd to perform : they put money into the purfe, which, acconiing to die ufage of that jkime, was attached to the coat. ST PALAYZ. ;t.Voffiw dc-Hiftorici* Latiois, lib. iiL cap. 4» BuBart, Académie des Sciences, torn. i.j. 124