m 0*d Idtôr tte requeft they made? They net avance, faying, they are in very great want of it, and, bifides, demand omr money. It is by po means reafcaablethat we fhould pay, wnà mifift thrift into the bargain.' They looked m tire Flemings as proud and prefumptuoijs, in thus demanding a debt of two hundred thoufand old crowns of & very ancient a date as forty • Nothing could have happened more oppor* tunely for the king of France, who was eager to invade Flanders ; for if the Flemings had been, filent refpecting thefe crowns, ani had only re* que&ed aflistance, from the king of Etigland, fee would have gone in perfon to flanders, *r would have feat thither fuch a powerful fosce^ tuat the Flemings who were in the field might have refisted the greateft power on the earth. But it fell out other wife, as you will hear r#« feted in ibis history. CHAP XXVII. ' • xm ntm^m wnw» THE GRENT MEN -ma* SENT TQ IING CHARGES OF FRANCE IS DE-. JEERED FROM ÎRISON.—COME PRISONER* fjfcp# XOURNAY AND CQURTRA.Y AW. EX^ C^AWE? FOR EAÇ# OTHER. • . INTELLIGENCE was .carried to the kmg\ council in France, that Philip von Artaveld/ aadtfee cotmtry. of Flanders, had fent ambaffa-4tors to England to form an aflrance. And' if* was