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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.9
page 32
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Bretons, -French, Normans and Poitevins, milder the command of fir Oliver dn Guefclin, The Enghfti had more confidence in thofe I hare named, and with reafon, than in the CaftiHiatli.
Fhus was the expédition of the doke of Lan-cafter pot an end to, and every cine fought the heft he could for himfelf. " You may f&ppofe this was a bitter difappointment to the duÉé, for he law all his ambitious expectations anni-hilated : he bore, however, his misfortune like a gallant prince m he was, for he perceived he coidd not any way amend it.
The king of Portugal., finding the bttftt#ft wm over, difmMfed his army, retaining onlf three hundred fpears, and left Orefifc, with the drçke of Lancafter, who returned #iih his •duchefe to Sant Jago de Compofteîlâ. %
The king remained therewith them fotr days: on the* fifth he departed, with all wbm hate companled him, for Oporto, where his qtiêeti refided. . -
I mûft now relate what befêl mmy of tlofe knights mè fqnires who, on iearvingrthe d«ke^ had retired into Caftille, andf w'ere lodged ifc different towns. Thofe who head been afflicted •with the difofder, notmthfta«diwg ' they had changed the air and medicines, could never v€+ cover, and fêterai died im Vilalpando., Many barons and knights of England died, in* their bedfc, to tke great lofs of their country, white-the king of Caftille was obtaining for them pa& fiorts- -to- travel through No?arre and France ; but the dift&nce, and other obftacles, delayed the accomplifhrnent. '
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