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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.1

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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.1
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untreated each captain to be attentive to his own honour, and careful of what was intrufted to him, which ^hen they had all promifed, they fet out for their different ftations. We will now return to the king of France, and fpeak of the expedition he was forming to invade ^ud deftroy Hainault, of which he made his fon, the duke of Normandy, commander. CHAP. XLV. THOSE OF TOURNA Y MAKE AN INCURSION INTO FLANDERS. TLI7HEN the king of France hacl been informed* that the Hainaulters had burnt the country of Tierache, had killed his knights, and deftroyed .his town of Aubenton, he ordered his fon, the dulçe of Normandy, to colleâ a number of forces, make an incurfion into Hainault, and deftroy that country in fuch a manner, that it might never recover from it. The duke replied, he would cheerfully undertake this. The king then ordered the count de Lifle, Gafcoi), who was at that time near his perfon-^t, Paris, and whom he" much loved, to colleô forcçs, and march towards Oafcony, as lieutenant for tt)t king iof. France, with the intent of making foni* feverereprifals upon Bourdeaux, in the Bourdelcfc, r •and upon all the places which held:flr;h^onge4 JP ,,tbe kingOLSpgland.


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