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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 303
might be done to him, thought he might as Well attempt to efcape : he therefore advanced elofe to Godinos, and with his uplifted axe fmote him fuch a blow on the head as fplit his "fkull to the teeth, and laid him dead on the ground. The page, from his diftance and fleépîneis, neither faw nor heard any thing of the matter ; and the peafant ran to hide himfelf in the wood, from which he was not far off. ' _ Thofe who heard" of this unfortunate accident were rfiuch diftreffed ; for Godinos was well be-loved by all who knew him, particularly by his countrymen in Auvergne, for he was the man at arms moft dreaded ' by the ' Englifh, and thé • perfon who had done them moft mifchie£ He would never have been fufferèd to remain a pri-foner, though twenty thoùfand francs had 'befei} asked for his ranfom.
,: We will now return to the duke of Juliers.
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