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. NEWLY TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH EDITIONS, WITH VARIATIONS AND ADDITIONS FROM MANY CELEBRATED MSS. BY THOMAS JOHNES. vol.1 page0070

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.1
page 70

A CRITICISM ON THi HISTORY OF FROISSART, J HAVE laid before you the views with which Froiffart wrote his Chronicles, the care he took to be informed of all the events which were to make parts of them, and the rules he had impofed on hinjjfelf in writing them. J fh^ll at prefent examine if he has beep exa& in obferving thefe rules ; what are jthe defeâs and advantages of his Hiilory ; what is ,the form and ftyle of it. Thence I ihall.pafs to the jaianufcripts and editions we have qf it, and to the abridgements and different tranflations which have been publiihed. Froiffart is accufed of jrartjality ; and this accufajtion is become fo general, that it feems to have acquired the chara&er of notoriety j whofe privilege is to fuperfede proofs, froiffart is laid to have fold his pen to the Englifli, wljo paid him a confiderable penfion ; and, by a necefiary confequence of his affeâion foj: ..them, he is unfavourably to tj^e $rench? Bodin,