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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.5
page 362
ccftor of England, who had butjuft celebrated mafs before the king : he was feized by thefç rafcals, and beheaded. The. prior of St. John's fufFercd the fame fate, and likewife a Francifcan friar, a do&or of phyfic, who was attached to the duke of LanCafter» out of fpite to his matter, and alfo a ferjeant at arms of tffename of John Uaige*. They fixed thefe four heads on long pikes, and had them carried before them through the ftrects of London t when they had fufficiendy played with them, they placed them on London Bridge, as if they had been traitors %m their king and country. -
Thefe fcoundrek entered the apartment of the princefs, and cut her bed, which fo mttch terrified her that (he fainted, and in this condition was by her fcrvants and ladies carried to the river fide, when (he was put into a covered boat, and con-veyed to the houfe called The Wardrobef, where fhc continued that day and night like to a woman half dead, until {he was comforted by the king her fon, as you ihall prefently hearé
• Laige. Leg.—HOLLINGSHED.
f The King's Wardrobe was at this time in Carter-lane, fearnard's Caiile-wanl. For further particulars, fee Stowed lift, of London.
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