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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.2
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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.2
page 434
AÉ€i.- M A Mcfwrois i i krâened ù enter «he city inftantLy on their «wpivtl, thpf tro«ld hâw 'Won It ; - feut «hey loitered in the ftbwhs, atid petforaied enterprise in a cè^ai41y^ttapMr enough i TMs fame night, God *nfpired the lord Morel de Fiennes, conftable of France/ mê the earl de St. Pot, who were at Cer&ie m great force, with -Ae defign to go to -Amiens. • They rode theré fo fett, and came 4b opportunely, that- the Navarrois îiad but j«ft gained the fubCirhs : they were exert-ing all their efforts tô win the city, and muft haw Cocceeded, if thefe gentlemen had not arrived. ( As foon as they had entered the eity of Amiens by «Mtber gate, they advanced to thè v place where the battle raged, and having di%lmyed their banners, drew up their 'men in Hie Areet, without paffi»g through the gate to the fuburbs-; fer they gave them up as loft, which in tr«th feey were. They, by this timely fuccour, tafpired frefli courage into the men of Amiens, who lighted the ftreets wkh a «Mnber of torches, and with pitched-ropes m iron Ismthorns.
The lord John de Piquigny and the Navarrois, m bearing that thefe lords and their fquadrons wece ' arrived, and - drawn «p » the city, thought that, if they remained, they ran a riik of lofing more than they -could gain: lord John, therefore, eoHeâred his people together, and fourided a retreat, 'which he made as handfomely.as he could, but not before hç had deftroyed and burnt the fuburbt. There were at leaft three hundred houfes, and a
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