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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.8
page 88
_ The duke and duchefs pafled the time as well as they could : winter was approaching, though in Gaiicia the feverity of that feafon is fcarcely felt ; for it is always there fo warm, that fome fruits are eatable even in March, and beans, peafe and grafs, are high and flourifhing in February. Their hay-harveft is over before midfummer-day ; and, by that time, their corn is, in feveral places, completely ripe. . • -
CHAP. X1L
THE PUKE OF LANCASTER^ MARSHAL GAIN8 70* HIM SEVERAL PLACES IN OALICIA.—THE CON-DUCT OF THE KING OF CASTILLE*
NOTWITHSTANDING the duke of Lancafter lived quietly at Sant Jago with his duchefs and children, it was not fo with his army; for the commanders made frequent excurftons over the country, conquering towns and cafties, of which, for a time, they held poffeffion. I will faithfully narrate the manner in which they did this, and the names of the towns they gained ; for I was told all the particulars of the campaign by thofe englifh knights who had been a&ors in thefe con-quefts ; but more particularly by that gallant knight of Portugal whom I have before mentioned, who, in the moft friendly manner entered into all the
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