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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 203
CHAP. XXX.
TIE COUNT DE FOIX PERMITS THE FRENCH CAP' TAINS TO PASS THROUGH HIS TERRITORIES, ON CONDITION THEY PAY FOR WHATEVER THEY TAKE.-—THEY ARRIVE AT ST. JEAN PIED DE PORT, AT THE ENTRANCE OF NAVARRE. . -
glR William de Lîgnac and fir Walter de Paflac» paffing through France, aflembled their men in. the Touloufain, Narbonnois and Carcaffone, where, as they arrived, they quartered themfelves in the richeft parts, and many never paid any thing for what they took. News was brought to the count de Foix at Orthès, where he refided, that the french men at arms were advancing near his country, with the intent of marching through it in their way to Caftille. Thofe who told him this added,—' But, my lord, the mifchief is, that they pay for nothing they take, and the people fly before them as if they Were Englifh. The captains are ftill at Carcaf-fone, and their men overrun from thence all the adjacent countries. • They crofs the Garonne at Touloufe, and enter Bigorre, from whence they will foon be in your territories ; and, if they da there, what they have done on their march, they will greatly injure your domains of Béanw ' Con* fider, therefore, how you will a&/
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