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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.6

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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.6
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faith,' laid the earl * happen what may, I have ' done nothing that I repent of.' Thus ended this converfation between the duke of Lancafter and earl of Cambridge, When they entered on other matters. We will now leave them, and the wars of Spain and Portugal, to return to thofe of Ghent, the earl and coun* try of Flanders, which were very deftructive. CH-A.P. -XIII» GHENT IS IN GREAT DISTRESS FOR PROVISIONS 5 THEY ARE SUCCOURED BY THE INHABITANTS OF LIEGE. EVER iince the burning of Grammont, and the breaking up the liege of Ghent, through the grief of the earl of Flanders for the death of his coufm, the young lord d'Anghien, as you have before heard, the war was carried on iblely by the garrifons in the different towns. The whole country was for the earl, except the Quatre Metiers, whence provifions were fent into Ghent, as well as from the county of Aloft. But the earl of Flanders on hearing that cheefe, butter and other things were fent to Ghent from Aloft and the adjacent villages, foon put a ftop to it, by ordering the garrifon of Dendremorid to burn and deftroy the whole of that flat "court** try ; which orders being obeyed, the poor peo* pie who lived on the produce of their cattle, ; F 3 were 69


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