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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.2
page 359
CHAP. CXLIV.
ME LORD JAMES AUDLEY GIVES TO HIS SQUIRES THE PENSION OF FIVE HUNDRED MARCS HEr • HAD RECEIVED FROM THE PRINCE.
y^THJSN the lord James Audley was brought back to his tent^ after having moll refpeft-fully thanked the prince for his gift, he did not remain long before hp fent fqr his brother fir Peter Audlev, the lord Bartholomew Burgher(h4 fir Ste-phen Coffington, lord Willoughby of JSreCby ^nd • lord William Ferrers of Groby: they ^ere all hU relations. He then fent for bk four fquires that had attended upon him that day, and, add re fling himfelf ta the knights, faid; 'Gentlemen, it has; pleafed my lord the prince to give me five hundred marcs as a yearly inheritance ; for which gift I have done him very trifling bodily fprvice. You fee, : here thefe four fquires, who haye always ferved nae moft loyally, and efpeçially in this d^y's engage^ ment. What glory I may have gained has been, through their means, and by their valour : on which, account I wilh to reward them. I therefore give and refign into their hands the gift of five hundred % marcs, which my lord the prince has been pleafed to beftow me, in the fame form and manner that it has been prefented to me. I difinherit myfelf of it, and give it to them fimply, and without a poflibility of revoking it.'
The knights prefent looked on each other, and fuid, € It is becoming the noble mind of lord James
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