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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.7
page 313
it.' I then took my leave of the fquire, and join-ed other ' company, with whom I chatted and amufed myfelf. However, 1 kept in py me-mory every particular of the tale he had told me, as is now apparent. I will leave for a while the affairs of Spain and Portugal, and fpeak of thofe of Brittany, Languedoc, and France.
CHA.P. X1LI.
SIEGE IS LAID TO BREST.—ST. FORGET AND SEVERAL OTHER ENGLISH GARRISONS IN THE ENVIRONS OF TOULOUSE ARE RECOVERED BY THE FRENCH.
DURING the time thefe matters were pafsing in Castille and in distant countries, fir Oliver de Cliflbn, constable of France, ordered a block-houfe to be built before the caftle of Breft in Brittany, which the Englifh held, and had done fo for a confiderable time, and would not quit it, neither for the king of France nor for the duke of Brittany, to whom it belonged. The dukes of Berry and Burgundy, and the king's council, had frequently written on this fubjçct to the duke of Brittany ; for at that time, a? you know, the young king of France was under the government of his uncles. They had entreated the duke of Brittany to exert himfelf to conquer the caftle of Breft, which being held by the Englifh was much to his difcredit. The duke, ia compliance with their entreaties, as well *~
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