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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 357
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Crewecéuf, n4i*ê l'mninoA wàk hwi three days to repofe and refrefh myfelf, when I took leave, and weiit to Valeaciennes. After ftaying there a fortnight, I wmnt to Holland, to vifit nay gallant patron mud lord, the count de Bfois, whom I found at Schoenhoven. - He made me good cheer, and inquired after news. I told him enough of all I had feen or heard, mw| was with him upward* of a month, as well at Gouda m Schoenhoven, and then took leave to return to France, to learn the particulars of the confer* onces that were holding at Leulinghem, between the French and Englifh, and likewife to be pne-fent at the magnificent feafts that were to be given at queen Ifabella's public entry into Paris, where m yet (he had never been*.
To learn the moft I could, I travelled through Brabant, and managed to arrive at Paris eight days before the commencement of the feafts. I had fo much forethought, refpeoting the French
* Underneath it the tranflation of a note, vol. Hi. p. 85. of M. Lerefque'f hiftory of the five firft kings of the race of Vtlois. " '
• One would be tempted to believe, from the radtabéf umr hiftorians, tint the tpwtti, nrhti bid neir Iwett nsnkd iwr y*an» made ttlié her firft entry into Parity It i* a miftake. Sac was Acre w 138% when-Cbariei wrote to her, the Bfth April, firom Motfdidier, m fend to Amiens the amount of thé
lmxes9 and to Î ,11 ' all the mut «t aim mà foieigaewtlut
wot fcriMtai «ftt -iHè iMraftin wfSfegkfld fmi Sfcfk Me ttùewhet at the tartine*» pndtfm war *gatttft thellé-mlttgi irtâtlitif'tliii. 'O&e^Ha^xeiyeetttré, from thw let-ter* that h* had entnrittd her with the regency/ * .
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