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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.5
page 163
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However they were intich driven and tumbled about.
When t}ie tetfipeft ceafcd, thçy rpturtied m weH as they could to Southampton, aid waited On the king and his pneies j to wtym they related their misfortunes, including fir Hugh Calverley among; the drowned : but it was not fo, as it afterwards appeared when he came to London.
This expedition wap put an end to ; *pd the duke of Brittany did not receive any affiftànce from the Englifh, which was very ptidi againft him ; for all that feafon and the * errfuing winter, the French carried on a deftru&ive war. The Bretons, that is to fay, fir Oliver deXliffon aid his men, took the town of Dinartt, by means of veflêls and boats, which they pillaged^ and kept after-wards, for a long time, againft the duke and the country.
IVc will rçow return to the afiqirs of Flanders. •
CHAP, xxvni.
THE TOWN OF GHENT SENDS AMBASSADORS TO THE EARL OF FLANDERS JO ENTREAT HIM TO COME THITHER.
XI7HÈN peace was oondtxtal between tht carl *Y of Flanders and the men of Qhern, by the mediation of the dpke of Birgpndy, which gained
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