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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 106
Mîmê. Hê then retreated to Berry, and the dike of Bourbon to the Bourbonois. The other lords who had come from dittant parts went to their dif-ferent countries* We will now return to the prince.
CHAP. XIX.
THE PRINCE OF WALES, ANXIOUS TO RECOVFR LIMOGES, LAYS SHOE TO IT, AND UNDER-MINES IT.
TT7HEN intelligence was brought to the prince y* that the city of Limoges had become French, that the bifhop, who had been his com-panion and one in whom he ufed to place great confidence, was a party to all the treaties, and had been muqh aiding and aflifting in the fur-render, he was in a violent paffion, and held the bifhop and all other churchmen in very low cfti-mation, in whom formerly he had put great truft. He fworc by the foul of his father, which he had never perjured, that he would have it back again, that he would not attend to any thing before he had done this, and that he would make the inha-bitants pay dearly for their treachery.
When the greater part of his forces were ar-rived, he muftered them: they amounted to twelve hundred lances, Jknights and fquires, a thoufand
archers
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