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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
page 225
CHAP. XXXI.
JOHN OF BURGUNDY, COUN* OF NEVERS, LEADS AN ARMY INTO HUNGARY AGAINST THE TURKS. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE MAR-RIAGE OF KING RICHARD OF ENGLAND WITH THE ELDEST PRINCESS OF FRANCE ARE CON-TINUED.
'TPHE knights and fquires in different countries * were all alive at the wars tfiat feemed likely to take place in oppofite quarters : fome made themfelves ready for the exdipetion to Hungary; others for that to Friefland : and whenever they met they converfed on thefe fubjeéts.
The count de Nevers was prepared j and all thofe knights had been enrolled who were to be under his charges, and to accompany him. The purveyances were very confiderable and well ar-ranged 5 and, as the honour of the expedition was given to him, he made handfome prefents to his knights and fquires, and gave them many ftores for, as the journey was long and expenfive, it was but proper the men at arms fhould be aided to fupport them. In like manner did other lords aft ; fuch as the conftablc of France, the count de la Marche, the lords Philip and Henry de Bar, the lord de Coucy, fir Guy de la Trimouille, fir John de Vienne admiral of France, Boucicaut xnarfhal of France, fir Reginald de Roye, the
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