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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.4
page 50
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' Martinmas was paffed : but thé duke informed thon, that in the approaching fpring, he fhould croft the fea with a greater force than he had hitherto done, and fhould entreat his coufins the dukes of Gueldres and Juliers to accompany him into France.
We (hall now be filent as to the affairs of Pi-cardy, for indeed nothing of great moment hap-• pened fince this time, and return to Poitou, where warlike deeds were oftener performed.
CHAP. |X
S1H JOHN CHANDOS IS SLAIN IN A SfcIRMI$H. .
THE FRENCH AT FIRST VICTORIOUS, ARE IN THE END DEFEATED*
OIR Johrf Chandos, being fénéfchal of Poitou, maaferioufly affliftcd with the lofs of St. Salvin : be was continually deviling means to retake it, whether by aflault or by fcalado was perfectly in-différait to him, fo that he could gain it. He pade rpany nightly ambufcades, but none fuc-ceeded } for fir Lou», who œmmanded in it, was very watchful, as - he knew the capture of it had highly angered fir John Chandos.
Il happened that, on the night preceding the eve çf the new year (1370), fir John Chandos5 who
refided
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