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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.7

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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.7
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The duke of Laneafter replied ; c It does riot, depend on us, but .on the king and the nations and you may be affured we will do every thing we poffibly can.' Thus ended tbefe conferences. The Portuguefe remained jn London waiting for the meeting of parliament, and the duke of Lan-cafter and earl of Cambridge went to their ef* tates in the north of England. About Michaelmas, when the, parliament was to meet at Weftminfter, the king was-on his re-turn towards London* and had arrived at Wind* for; from thence he came to Staines* and to Chertfey. He was accompanied wherever he went by the queen, his whole court, and the earl of Suffolk, for his favour was fuch, nothing was done without his approbation. .• At the period I am now fpeaking of, the wars in Flanders were going on between the duke of Burgundy and the Ghentmen. ' The bifhop of Norwich, fir Hugh Calverley, fir William Elm-ham, fir Thomas Trivêt and the others were juft come back to England, whom the king of France had furrounded at Bourbourg, as has been already related in this hiftory. : ' Truces had been concluded between the Flem-ings, French, Engliih, and Scots, to laft untH Michaelmas 1S84: notwithstanding which, the Englifh had fo much on their hands that they knew * Staines. It is Tones in the original ; but lord Berner* ' calls it Staines, I fufpect it is wrong, as Chertfey is lower down the river than Staines, and consequently fh ould have fceeii the last place the kiag visited. not «40


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