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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.8
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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.8
page 355
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You, and others of your fe&ion, have done what has greatly .difpleafed my brother and myfelf, and have ill-counfelled the king, whom you have made to quarrel withx his chief nobility. In addition, you have excited the principal towns againft us* The day of retribution is therefore come, when you Hhail receive payment ; for whoever a&s juftly reT ceives his rçward : look to your affairs, for I will neither eat nor drink until you be no more/
This fpeech greatly terrified fir Robert, (for no one likes to hear of his end) by the manner in which it was uttered. He was defirous to obtain pardon, by various excufes, and the moft abjetl; humiliation, but in vain ; for the duke had received information of what was going on at Briftol, and his excufes were fruitiçfs. Why fhould I make a long ftory I Sir Robert was delivered to the hangrçian, who led him out of the palace to the place of execution, where he was beheaded, and then hung by the arms to a -gibbet. Thu? ended fir Robert Tre«* filian*
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