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THOMAS JOHNES, ESQ.
Memoirs of the life of Sir John Froissart
page 26
AN
ESSAY
W0HHLS OF FmOlSSAMR
A HE life of Froifiart has been thefebjeét of the preceding; pages.. I (halt now give the Mftory of hi» works, as well printed at manufcript, in verfe and in profet and 1 wHI, as faithfully as 1 an able, detail their contents. -It may, perhaps, be thought I have been too minute ; but I feel myfelf to-owe a particular attention to an hiftorian who alone is worth more than a multitude of others, by the importance of the fubjcéts he inveftigates, and the long period of time his hiftory contains, 1 hare, befides, obferved that the author has unfolded, in the courfe of his work, many fa£b which ferve to clear up lèverai preceding ones ; and for want of this information it has-often happened that I have been flopped in my reading, and have not profited fo much by it as I otherwife {hould have done : it is thiswhich has, made me fenfible of the want thofe who read Froiflart would experience o£ fuch an explanation. To fmoothall difficulties, and to lay downfuch rules* as- may ferve fee guides to readers^ 1 have attempted to do that, which L fbould have been glad to have found done when I began to read this author, for 1 do not limply propole to give an idea of our hiftorian, fuch as to fatisfy curiofity alone ; my objeéfc is that thefe memoirs lhould ferve as an introduéiioi*.
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