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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 385
of the barons of Scotland, -and thanked them for the honour and comfort they had given him, by maintaining him in their country the time he had wifhed to ftay there. The earls of Douglas and Moray, with all the Scottifh knights, efcorted him as far as the abbey of Melrofe, but did not crofs the Tweed.
The duke went to Roxburgh, from thence m Newcaftle on Tyne, then to Durham and York ; and, in all the towns and cities through whieh he palTed, the inhabitants were drawn up to receive him.
At this period a gallant knight of England de-parted this life, fir Guifcard dfAngle, earl of Huntingdon and tutor to die king. He was buried With great pomp in the church of the Auguftinc friars. His funeral was attended by the king, the princefs his mother, his two brothers, and by great numbers of prelates, barons and ladies of England. In truth, the gallant knight was very deferring of it, Jbr he pofleffed all the virtues which a knight at that rime ought to have : he was gay, loyal, gal-bat, prudent, fecret, generous, bold, determined and enterprifing. Thus died fir Guifcard d'Angle,
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