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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 392
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JBrittany : they thfet* learnt thai thp French fleet was at fea, on which fir John Arundel was ordered back to Southampton, with,two hundred men at arms .and four .hundred, arched to defend that place. . . .
- - * CHAP;- L&XVIU. ' ' -
THT DUKE OF ANJOU RETAINS LARGE BODIES OF MEN AT ARMS AGAINSt THE ENGLISH.—THB « /SPANIARDS. LAV SIEGE TO B A YONNE» '
Z^\N account of - the mfVmation . the king of 7!^ France had receive^ ffom the Normans^ that the Englifli were in-great force at fea, but doubt-ful whither it was dire&ed he had iffued a fpecial ûjmmons throughout his realm for every knight and fquire, according to his degree, to keep him-fçlf fully prepared* to march to whatever part he fhould bexardciied. ^ • *
Tàe dukéiof* Anjdd hàd alfb, at this period, re-tained large bodies of men at arms from all quarV tersi with*;the intention of laving fiege té Bour-deaux. He had with him his brother the duke of Berry, the eortflsbW of • Frainee, and all the floweç c£ knighthoodT from Gafcôny, Auvergne,: Poitou and Limoufin. . In Wdter to carry their enterprize, he*had raifcd airimmmfc "army, and had alfo, " wttfr the èdnfent bf the king of Ff ance, colle^cil
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