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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 235
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if any perfon €M give better advice, let him do fof for fir Walter and myfelf will cheerfully liften to him.*
The council unanimoufly replied ; c We approve of what fir William has offered, and cannot but think it the bell advice for the king and kingdom of Caftille/ It was then determined to wait for the, duke of Bourbon and the flores before they made preparations for taking the field, but to gar* rifon ftrongly the frontier, and fuffer the Englifh and Portuguefe to overrun Caftille at their plea* fure ; for, when they returned from their excur-fions, they could not carry away the land with them* The conference ended, all left the chamber ; and this day the king entertained at dinner, in his pa-lace at Burgos, the barons and knights of France : it was magnificently grand, according to the cuftom in Spain, On the morrow, before noon, all the men at arms were fent off to their different garri-fons, with inftru&ions from their leaders how to aft. Sir Oliver du Guefclin, count de Longueville, was ordered, with a thoufand fpears, to a tolerably ftrong town on the borders of Galicia, called Ville-fain&e*; fir Reginald and fir Triftan de Roye to another town, ten leagues further; but on thefron-tier of Galicia, called Viile-d'Agillare-de-Champ t, with three hundred lances ; fir Peter de Belefme, with two hundred lances, to Beneventé ; the count
* Ville-fain&e. Q. Vilalpando.
f Ville-é'Agillare«de«Charap. GL Avila.
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