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 page0274

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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of entering Flanders. That country has fceen conquered by the king of France, and we will conquer it for the king of England. • The ead of Flanders (hews at this moment. how com-pletely he is fubject to France, and how much he wiihes, in every refpect, to pleafe her, by baniihing from Bruges and Flanders our Eng-lifh merchants, who have refided there upwards of thirty years. The time has been when he would not have fo done for any confideration, but at prefent he dares not act otherwjfe fqr fear of the French.' This, and fuch like, fpeeches, were comtpqp in England ; and it was publicly faid, that things fhould not remain as they tyere : now, one may fairly fuppofe, that envy wfis the original caufe of it. CHAP. IX POPE URBAN SENDS BULLS INTO ENGLAND F0» THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CLEMENTISTS.-r THE BISHOP OF NORWICH APPOINTED COM-MANDER IN CHIEF AGAINJ3T THEM, ABOUT this period \ie who figned himfelf pope Urban the fixth, cpme from Rome to Gerçoa by fea, where he was grandly receiv-ed, and he fixed his feat there. You have heard how all England was obedient to him, both churcli and commonalty, and now more than pve r. / " Pecaiife • 260