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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.11
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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.11
page 101
.picked up their fcythes, mounted their horfes, and returned to the duke in Auray. I doubt not they punftually delivered the meffage, but the duke neither falied out himfelf nor fent any of his tfien to meet fir Oliver de Cliflbn. Suchfkirmiftics pafled often between them, but the principal inha-bitants never interfered. • • We will now leave the affairs of Brittany, and" return to thofe of France, and England. '.
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A TREATY Of P^ACE IS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE ICINGS OF FRANCE AND . ENGLAND, THROUGH THE MEDIATION OF THEIR UN- v
•CLES. ' , 1
"yOU have before heard of the conferences that * were held at Amiens on a peace between France and England, and on what terms the duke of Lancafter had gone back. , The Englifh were unwilling to confent to a peace, notwithftanding the king, the dukes of Lancafter and York, and all the commiflioners who had been at Amiens, ftrongly urged it; for the majority of the com-mons were defirous of war; and two thirds of the young knights and fquircs knew not how tb emplojK themfelves : they had learnt idlenefs, ' and looked to War as the means of fupport. However, they
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