King Edward III of England issuing a challenge to King Philip VI for the French crown, 1338. Seated on a throne in armorial robes decorated with the French fleur-de-lys coat of after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's 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, George Routledge, London, 1868.

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