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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.11
page 368
{bon Cupped, rofe from table. Evcfy thing being ready, the king took leave of the duchefs and her children, mounted his horfe, and the duke did the fame, attended only by three fquires and four var-ie ts. They took their way to Bondelay, to avoid the high road to London, and Brentwood, with the other towns through which it pafies. They rode hard* for the king pretended impatience to get to X/ndon, and converfed all the way with the duke of Glocefter. On their arrival at Stratford, near the Thames, where an ambufcadc had been laid, the king galloped forwards, leaving his uncle be-hind, on which the earl marihal advanced to the * rear of the duke, with a large body of men, and faid, c I arreft you in the king's name.* The dukq was panicftruck, for he faw he had been betrayed, and cried aloud after the king. I know not if the king heard him, but hç did not turn back, gallops. ing on fafter than before, and followed by his at-tendants.
We will now leave this matter for a ffcorç tjin^
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