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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.10

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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.10
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m of Lancafter* They have been informed, it feems, (but I know not how, whether by a ipeffenger from Aymerigot Marcel or fome friend of Ms, who has been in his name to England) that I am quartered wifh a large army on the lands of the king of England, and order me inftantly to raife the fiege, inarch away my men, and leave Ay-" merigot hi peaceable pofieffion of the final! fort that has coll him fo large a fum to repair and lirengthen. . 4 They tell me likewife, that I am rifting my own difhonour, by thus infringing a truce, which has been agreed to for three years, between the kings of France and England, and their allies. I declare to you, my fair firs, that I will not, ,by any means, violate the fmalleft article of the truce, nor fhall it be infringed, by any aft of mine, during my refidence here. ,. * I am the king of France's fubjeft, my liege lord, who has ordered me hither as his marfhal, for the prefent, from the complaints that have been made him, by the nobles and other inhabi-tants of the countries of Auvergne and Limoufin, of the great damages they have fuffered from Aymerigot Marcel, who has feized a fort on the confines of thefe two provinces that had been abandoned, and was never again intended to be inhabited, which he has repaired and ftrengthened, not as a nianfion, or houfe for recreation, but as a caftle and rendezvous for robbers and marauders. I am therefore ordered hither to defend and guard the country againft fuch pillagers as may be collected


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