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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.1
page 264
ders, who was but a young efquire, and knighted
him—at the fame time giving him two hundred
poundsfterlinga year, properly fecured in England
The king, was lodged in the abbey of Mont St.
Martin, where he remained two days ; his troops
were fcattered round about in the country. The
duke of Brabant was quartered at the monaftery of
Vaucelles.
When the king of France, who was at Com
piégne, heard this news, hç increafed his forces
every where, and fent the earl of Eu and Guines,
his conftable, with a large body of men at arms,
to St. Quentin, to guard that town and the frontiers , againft his enemies. He fent the lords of Coucy and of Ham to their cailles, and a great number of men at arms to Guife, Ribemont, Bouchain, and the neighbouring fortreifes on the borders of his kingdom; and came himfelf to Peronne, in the Vermandois.
During the time the king of England was at the
abbey of Mont St. Martin, his people overran the
country as far as Bapaume, and very near to Pe
ronne and St.Quentin: they found it rich and
plentiful, for there had not been any wars in thofç ' parts.
Sir Henry of Flanders, to do credit to his newly
acquired knighthood, and to obtain honour, made
one of a party of knights, who were conduded by
bis life, payable from the manor of Bradenaih, in the county of Devon. He wa» alfo the twenty-fourth knight of the garter. AIHMOLE.
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