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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

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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
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countermine to prevent the cffeét. But we wHr now leave the prince a little, to return to fir » Robert Knolies. • CHAP. XX. • %iR KOÈERf KNOLLES, IN CONTINUING HIS • INCURSIONS THROUGH DIFFERENT PROVINCES OF FRANCE, ADVANCES NEAR TO PARIS. A KNIGHT OF HIS ARMY, IN RETURNING FROM A VAINGLORIOUS EXPEDITION, IS SLAIN BY A BUTCHER OF PARIS. CIR Robert Knolies, • as has been before related, had entered France with a large body of men, and was marching by (hort ftages through that " kingdom with a magnificence for which the people ' and the rich provinces paid dearly. The Englifh, as they advanced and retreated, did infinite mif-chief, at the fame time fhewing as if they only wifhed for a battle. Having paffed through the countries of Artois, Vermàndois, the bifhoprick of Laon, the arch-bifhoprick of Rheims in Champagne, they re-returned into Brie, and from thence came near to Paris, and quartered themfelves for a day and two nights in the villages around it. King Charles of France was at that time in the eity, and he could fee from his palace of St. Pol VOL. IV. ' H the 97


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