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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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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
page 349
a church, half way between thefe two townsy above Buiffem*, called Bolingesf. ' Thither all the parties went, and the lords, with their coun-cil, were together for many days. The duke of Brittany and the earl of Flanders were pre-fent, and the great tent of Bruges was pitched, wherein the earl entertained at" dinner the duke of Lahcafter, the earl of Buckingham and the other Englifh ' lords. Each negotiator kept up a grand ftate -y but, notwithftanding there were many conferences holden, yet they could not agree upon a peace, for the French wanted the Englifh to give up Calais,. Guines, and all the fbrtrefses which they pofsefsed in ^ Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, Saintonge and la Rochelle, as far as the river Garonne.
But the Englifh would not any way liften to fuch a propofal ; nor would they ever confent to give back fuch places as Calais, Guines, Cher-bourg or Breft. » Thefe conferences lafted three " weeks, in which they or their councils difcufled thefe matters daily.
At this period, the gallant duke Winceflaus of Bohemia departed this life,* in the town of Lux-embourg : he was in his time magnificent, Mythe* prudent, amorous and polite ; and, when he died, it was-faid that the prince of the higheft birth, of the moft noble blood, and moft numeroufly and honourably connected was gone. God have mercy '
4 Probably what is now Haut Buiflbn.
t Q. If not Jtoliihgbem, now a viBage near Boulogne,
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