es mention of it becaufc discount Guy dt Blois was* wry anxious during Ms life, that I, fir John Fr^iflkrt, fhould indite this hiftory ; -and he was at great expenfes to forward it, for fo confidence an undertaking cannot be accomplifiied without heavy charges. May God receive Ms foul ! He was-my .lord and patron, of Mgh honour and great renown, and had -no need to feakt the pitiful bar-gains he did in the fale of Ms eftatea; but hje too readily believed thofe who advifcd him to dilho-nourable and profitais aéfcs. The lord de Coucy, who died at Burfà, was very culpable in this bu-finefs.] We will now return to the affairs of England. CHAP. iH JHZ OBATHS OF THE OUKB OP OLOCBSTER AWB THB BARL OF ARUNDEL.—THE MANNER IN WHICH THE DUKES OF LANCASTER AND \ YORK, AND THE LONDONERS, TAKE THE MATTER* r *\70U have • before fcen, in the courfe of tMs * hiftory, that Ipng Richard of England .would not longer conceal # the great hatred he bore his uncle of Gloccfter, but had determined to have him cut ofly according fo the advice given him, fating it forth m hç more advifcablc to deftroy C 4 than