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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.3
page 156
ie them to ifceeté When the captai lad heard irom faucon the numbers the French army con* - jd of, he immediately difpatched meffengers to the captains who were in the city of Evreux, with orders for them to fend him as many reciruits and young gallants# to his affiftance as they could poffibly colled t they were to meet him at Co* cherel t; for, fuppofing that he fhould find the French in that neighbourhood, he had determined to fight them wherever he fhould meet them*
When the meffengers came to Evreux, the lord Michael d'Orgery had it publicly cried, and ftri&Iy ordered all thofe who were horfemen to join the captai. Upon this, there immediately fet out one hundred and twenty young companions from that town.
On the Wedhefday |he captai de Buch took up his quarters* about two o'clock, on a mountain, and encamped his army. ' The French* who were wMh-* ing to meet them, marched ftraight forwards until they came to a river, called Yton, in that country* which runs towards Evreux, having its fource near Conches^ and encamped themfelves at their eafe* this, fame Wednefday, in a handfome meadow, through which this river runs. '
On the morrow, the Navarrois decamped, and fent their fcouts out, to examine whether they could
• Young gallants. In all the original, it is * jeunes arme* rets,' which D. Sauvage thinks fhould be bannerets, but I do not fee why. In Du Cange, armeret is a gallant, and thus I bave tranfiated it.
f Cocherel,—a village in Normandy, diocefe of Evreux.
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