xlvtt rieâion between feveral chapters at a great diftance from each other. The interval there is between the third and . fourth volumes, feems to have been caufed more to give repofe to the reader, than to the hiftorian ; for Froiffart, in ending the third, announces the events *rhich are to be the materials of the fourth volume, ί believe, the hiftorian, immediately on completing the third, wrote thç fifty firft chapters of the fourth volume, which clofe with the events of 1392. A great number of manufcripts, and black-lette? editions, which begin the fourth volume after thefe fifty chapters, form a very natural prejudice in favour of this opinion : befides, from the year 1392, when they end, two years paffed in continual négociations between the French and Englifli ; during which, fçveral truces, but of ihort duration, were made ; they, however, ended at laft in a peace, or truce, for four years. I do not doubt but that Froiffart then interrupted his writing ; finçe that was the time when he performed his journey intp England', where he refided three months. I believe* this interval was confiderable, becaufe the remainder of the fourth volume, which feems to me to have been written without intermiflion, was compofed, if I miftake not, feveral years after thia journey ; that is to fey, towards the end of the fourteenth, or the beginning of the fifteenth cen* tury. We find in it thofe events which belong to the years 1399 and 1400,. but nothing that may lead us to form any judgftient how long a rime the author employed on this laft part. It