chap. mo. *H* AWSWBE THM DURE OF LANCASTER GIVES. TBI KNIOHT WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO HIM BY THE EAUX» Of DERBY} TO REQUEST HIS PER-MISSÎOH TO JOIH THfc EXPEDITION AOAIKST • . THE TURKSIWtHE DEATH Of THE PURE Of . ' LANCASTER. " fent by; the earl of Derby to the duke of LM&fter, had received anfwers to the letters he Jiad l^rought, and had vifiied all the cafties of the carl hi3 lord, and waited on, his four fons and twa daughters* who had remained in England* im took • leave and returned to France* The. anfwér from the duke of Lancaftçr was* that he would not advifc his fon to go into Hun-gary, fauti wheji tirçd of France, to vifit Caftille and Portugal, iad amufe himfelf at the courts of his brothers-in-law and fillers. The carl of Derby read thefe letters twice over, and mufed fome; pme on their contents. Hjs knight told him in confidence that the duke of Lancafter's phyficians-and forgeons had affured him the duke laboured, under fo dangerous a difeafe it muft foqn. çaufe his death. This information made the earl give over all thoughts of travelling further. He remained m- [M the chevalier Binorth, who had been • G 4 Paris