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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 300
faved from being defpoiled : but forage, of which there was enough; was completely given up to the French. % *
Thus did the duke of Juliers become Kege man to the king of France, and paid homage for the territory of Vierfon, fituated between Blois and Berry. He fupped that night with the king : it was on a Thurfday ; and there were feated at the king's "table, firft, the bifhop of Liege, the archbifhop of Cologne, the Icing, the duke of ' Burgundy, the duke of Touraine, the duke of Juliers, and the duke of Bourbon.
GHAP.'XLIV,
' KING CHARLES VI. QUARTERS HIS ARMY ON A FRIENDLY FOOTING, IN THE DUCHY OF JU-LIERS.—A SQUIRE OF AUVERGNE IS MURDER-
' ED BY A WOODCUTTER WHOM HE IS LEAD-ING AWAY AS HIS PRISONER.
SUCH was the conclufion of the treaties be-tween .the king of France and the duke of Juliers, by which the laft enjoyed peace, al-though thç king quartered himfelf and his army in his duchy, which he found a rich country, mà full of every kind .of provifion,
. The duke of Juliers went to his fon, but not immediately* and i" the interval fome gallant feats of arms were done ; for the Germans were fo eager of gain, that they frequently, during the night, ot at wry e^riy morn,, beqtt up the
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