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.4 page0257

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