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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.12

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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.12
page 87



k what you fay is true : you have no bufinefs té fhcddle with fuch matters, for you mull know that the king of France has becfi ably àdvifed, and has jbft caufe tô aft as he does. ( Leave the clergy to themfelves 5 and, if they wifti for fuppbrt, they ihuft fubjedb themfelves to thofe lordà frorii whoft countries they recieiVe the amount of their bene-fices. They have too long kèld them undifturbëd; and they ought to feel and be fenfible whenfce theif health ariffcfe. The king of France has befide written to entreat that yoii would agree with hirii in a AeUtrality between flic two popes. Accept his invitatiôii, for the queen, who is his coufiii-germart, has done fo 1 and the greater parc of the kingdom and clergy are willing to do the fame ; for we hold, especially the Cataloniahs, that this opinion is the fureft i othenvife, fhould the Chril-tian princes not unite in the fame, there will never be any union in the church, frbni the divifioni of thefe two popes/ Thus did the king of Aragon and his lords con-verfe on the fubjett, while pope Benedidt, fhut up in his palace, was looking in vain for affiftance being fent him from Arragôn. The marfhal of France was in Avigitort, and the palace fo ftridtly inverted nothing could enter it, which forced thole within to live on the provifions they had. Of • food, there was a fufficiçncy for two of three years ; but, as there was a fcarçity of fuel to drefs their vi&uals, they began to be alarmed at the confe-quences. The 8b


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