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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 177
mould willingly have given in exchange à baftafd brother of the king of Portugal, who had been taken at fea in coming from Middlebourg : had he been within the 'limits of Zealand, he would have efcaped. I believe fir John de Bucq remained a prifoner in London for three years, and there died.
. CHAP. XXV.
THE KING OF PORTUGAL SENDS AMBASSADORS TO THE DUKE OF LANCASTER TO CONCLUDE HIS
MARRIAGE WITH THE LADY PHILÏPPA. SIR BAR-
ROIS DES BARRES IS ORDERED BY THE KING OF CASTILLE TO THE CASTLE OF NOYA*. *
JT is time for us now to return to the affairs of Caftille and Portugal, and to fpeak of the duké of Lancafter, as to the profperky of his under-takings, for his concerns were not trifling ; and likewife to mention the aid France fent to king John of Caftille, for otherwife his fortunes would have made a fmall figure : he would have loft this year his whole kingdom, if it had not been for the friendfliip of the king of France. • Intelligence is foon fpread abroad, and the king of Portugal
* Noya is an ancient town in Galicia^fcve or fix league* to
the weftwarclof Sant Jago.
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