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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 259
frill check thé duke** rage/ In effe&, he did foj for, had he not exerted himfelf to the utmoft, there |s not a doubt but that the conftable would have been murdered that night, had he had a thoufand lives.
CHAP. XÎXVIJI.
FBT CONSTABLE DS CLISSOX, TtiltOltGH THE EX* ' feuTIONS OF THE LORD BE LAVAT., OBTAINS HIS ' £(E|RTY, BY PAYING A LA1GÉ SUM OF ^ONEY^
AND DE LIVER WO UP TO THE IfJKE CY BRIT* T4NY SOME OF HIS CASTLES*
JT may be readily believed, that the conftable waç • Hot ac his eafe, when he found himfelf thus en-frapped and ironed, . Hç was guarded by thirty jtten, \vho frere pnable to Comfort him, for they jpould only obey their lord's orders. In bis own ipincj» hie çonfidered himfelf as a dead man ; for he Jiad not the noft diftant bope of any affiftance coming to him. fie had his fetters taken thrice from him, and was ftrçtched on the floor ; for the duke^ it one tipae, would have him beheaded, at another drowned ; apd one or other of thefe deaths he would certainly have fuffered; if it h*d not been |or the lord de Laval. When he heard the duke give orders for the conftable's death, he flung him-felf on his knees, and, with uplifted hands and tears, fp$ i 1 Ah, my lord, for God's mercy, think better
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