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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.2
page 35
feut the lord Thomas Holland and fir John Darvel to Bayonne, with two hundred men at arms and four hundred archers, to guard that frontier againft the French,
CHAP. XC.
A SEA ENGAGEMENT, OFF GUERNSEY, BETWEEN THE LORD ROBERT D'ARTOIS AND THE LORD LEWIS OF SPAIN.
8^|7PE milft now return to lord. Robert d'Artois and his army. Eafter fell fo late this year, that it was about the beginning of May ; and the middle of that month was the period when,the truce between the lord Charles and the countefs of Montfort was to expire.
The lord Charles had received information of the countefs of Montfort's journey into England, of her folicitations for affiftance, and of the fuccour the king of England was to give her: on which account, the lord Lewis of Spain, fir Charles Gri-maldi and fir Otho Doria, were ftationed off Guernsey, with thirty-two large veffels, having on board three thoufand Genoefe, and à thoufand men at arms. - .
The lord Robert d'Artois, the carl of Pembroke, the earl of Salilbury, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Oxford, the baron of Stamford, the lord De-fpenfer, the lord Bouçhier, with many other knights from England, and their followers, were accom-. panying the countefs of Montfort to Brittany, and
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