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.6 page0175

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.6
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CHAP. XXXII. SEVERAL KNIGHTS OF THE PARTY OF THE EARL OF FLANDERS, HAVING PASSED PONT-AMENIN, ARE DEFEATED AND KILLED ON THEIR AT* " TEMPT TO REPASS IT, THE FLEMINGS HAVING BROKEN DOWN THE BRIDGE.—PHILIP, HEAR-ING THIS NEWS WHEN AT YPRES, MAKES USE OF IT TO ENCOURAGE THE INHABITANTS. WHILST thefe preparations were going for-ward, and during the refidence of the king of France at Arras, great bodies of men at arms were aifembling in the Tournefis, Artois, and caftlewick of Iille and its neighbourhood. Some knights and fquires, who refided at Lille and thereabout, refolved to perform feats of arms that fliould gain them renown, chiefly-through the exhortations of the Hafe de Flan-dres. They collected about fix fcore knights and fquires, and crofled the river Lis at Pont-Ame-nin, which was not then broken down, two leagues from Iille. They rode for the town • of Harle, which they furprifed; and, after flaying many in the town and environs, they drove the remainder out of the town. Their cries were heard in the neighbouring villages ; the inhabi-tants of which founded their alarm bells, and marched towards Harle and Pont-Amenin, whence the cries feemed to come. VOL. VI, ' ' M Whei* 161