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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

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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
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m appointed the lord Percy, and the lord Ne*iHe of Raby, the archbiihop of York, the biftop of Dar-ham, and the ^bifhop of Lincoln, to be his lieute-nants for the northern parts of his kingdom ; mn3 lie did riot take fo many forces out of the realm but that- there waâ a fufficiency of men at arms left to defend it, fhould there be occafion. He took the road for Southampton, where he tarried until he had a favourable wind, when he embarked with his whole army. On board the king's fhip were thé prince of Wales and fir Godfrey de Harcourt : the other lords, earls, and barons embarked with their men, as they had been ordered. There might be about four thoufand men at arms, and ten thou&nd archers, not including the Irifh and the Welch, who followed the army on foot. I will enumerate the names of thôfe lords that accompanied king Edward. I muft mention firft the prince of Wales, who at that time was only thirteen * years old, or thereabouts : there Were Humphry Bohun earl of Hereford and Effex, his brother William Bohun earl of Northampton, Tho-mas Beauchamp earl of Warwick, Richard Fitzalan earl of Arundel, John Vere ear] of Oxford, William Clinton earl of Huntington, • Robert HofFord elrf • This is a miftuke ; for he was born the 15th JhttetS&O': he * puft therefore have been fix teen. r have copied the names out of Barnes' Kfe of Edward III.» wherein he mentions that twenty-two of them, from lord Ughtred, are taken from an old MS. in C. C. C. horary, Cambridge, inti-tuled, « Ada Edwardi filii, Edwardi tartii/ % . . of


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