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 page0301

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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The bifhop of Norwich and his army, on their ' departure from St; Venant, quartered themfelves in the foreft of Niepe; which was not for diftant, ' and near to Bailleul. * They entered the caftle- • wick of Poperingue, ' and took all the inclofed * towns, wherein they found much money and great booty, which they font • to Bergues or ' Bourbourg. When they had thus laid the whole * country under their fubjection, fo that none came • tô oppofe them, and when they were matters of the coaft from Gravelines to Slays, having poflefs- * ed themfelyes of Dunkirk, Nieuport, Fumes and * Blanquenbergue, they advanced to lay liege to Ypres. There the.bilhop, fir Hugh Calverleyand the Englifii halted, audi then fent mefifengersto Ghent Ihave goodreafontofuppofe thatFran-cis Atremen went tP theraj and was at all their ' battles md conquefts, and had ferved as conduct- * or of the Englifh from town to town, and from village to village. . * -, . .• •' : • CHAP. LVI. : • THE MEN GF GHENT ASSIST THE ENGLISH IN 0 THEIR SIEGE OF YPRES.— THE LORD DE ST. LEGER GOING TO REINFORCE THE GARRISON OF COURTRAY, BY ORDERS OF THE KING OF FRANCE, IS DEFEATED BY A PARTY OF ENG. LISH NEAR COMMINES. • WHEN Peter du Bois, Peter le Nuitre, and the captains in Ghent hear^ that the Eng- 287'*