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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.11

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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.11
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Secondly, the lord de la Barde/ the lord de la-Taridëi the lord de Pititerne, the lord de Châ-teauneuf, the • lords • de Levefque and de Copanc, the chief' magiftratcs of1 Bordeaux, Bayonne and Dax, were come to England, and gready perfe-cuted the king, fine© his return from Irelarid, for ^nanlkeir to'their petitions and remonftrances, on the gift the king had made his uncle, the duke *hf Lancafter, of all Aquitain, widi ks lordfhips, baronies; and dependences, • which -hid appertained to the king and crown of England. 'The above^» mentioned lords, and principal citks and towns in Aquicainei maintained that fuch a gift could not be made, and that it wafc null ; for thai tht whole of Aquitaine was a • fief depending iblely on the crown of: England, and that they would never eoafent thus to* be' disjoined from it, t They had made feveral reàfonable propofitions for an ac-commodation, which I will relate in proper time andplacé. .1- • • * - -• . In order that? thefe matters might be more fully confideitd,. and indeed they required it, the king had fummoned the principal barons and prelates of the: real ni to anebrJhim oh Magdàlçn-day, at Ms palace'jaf^lthaihi fçven mile* from London, end thp fame diftance from Dartford. On the fourth day after the king's arrival, when I learnt chat he, his council and the duke of York were 'gboiif to quiç Leeds caftle and go to Rochefter, ii\ j&çir way to Eltham, I fet out in their company, 134


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