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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, xux; " THE HOSTAGES SENT ' FROAf DERVAL All »B-HEAPED.—Sit ROBERT KNOLLES RETALIATES ' ON THOSE PRISONERS WHOM HE HAD TAKEN. —THE DUKE OF LANCASTER FINISHES PI$ . £*P£0lTIONf OR Robert Knolles, as I have before related, • was returned to his caftle of Derval, which he confidered as his own inheritance, and had dc^ termined to break the treaty which had been en-fered intQ by hi$„coufin and the duke of Anjou: on which account, the duke himfelf was come to the èçgc of Derval, attended by numbers from Brit-taqy, Poitou aqd the lower countries. The king of France was defirous that his confta-ble, who wm there, and the lord de Cliflbn, with federal more, fhould return to France, to affift his brother the duke of Burgundy in the purfuit of the Englift)* He frequently renewed thefe orders to çhe different lords,, who were anxious to obey them* and alfo m gain poffeffioa of this caftle of Deri ' When the day was paflcd on which tht caftle *aa to have been furrendered, the befiegers wondered what the garrifon were thinking on: they imagined that fir Robert Knolles had thrown himfelf into ic R 3 . ' with ms


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