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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.4
page 342
obedience.9 'And. you (hall not forfi^ryourfclfr anfwered the tonftable.
Engines were direétiy poihted againft the caftle. as they were ready on the fpot. When thofe within faw the great preparations that were making againft them, as well by thofe in the town as by the French, and that the attack would be fevere, and probably fatal m theiri, they thought it acl-vifable to enter into ^ negotiation. They opened a treaty with the conftable, who agreed to fpare their lives and fortunes on their furrendering the çaftle. The duke of Anjou was therefore advifed by the conftable not to fatigue or hurt his men, but to grant them quarter, which he did. On the third day they marched out of tip caftle, and were conduded whither they wifoed to go, and the conftable took pofleffion of it* but I bcUcve the •dekc of Anjou ordered it to be razed to thç ground. ( - . ••'
» CJ3AP« LXVIII.
THE DUKE OF ANJOU RETURNS TO THE DUOHESS AT TOULOUSE, AND THE CONSTABLE TQ THE KINO OF FRANCE.—VAN OF WALES LAYS SIEGE TO MORTAIN SUR MER»
A FTER the conqueft of the town and caftle •**"of Duras, the duke, of Anjou ordered.for John de Jumont, fir Triftan de Roye, and fir
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