. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . being done by Christians, considering the many persons of highrank that were present, and who made no efforts to check them: th
. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . being done by Christians, considering the many persons of highrank that were present, and who made no efforts to check them: there were also manygentlemen in tbe kings army who had relations in the town, as well secular as churchmen,but the disorder was not the less on that account. During the storming of the place, several, foreseeing that it must betaken, thought to savethemselves by escaping over the wails to the river, and swimming across ; but the greaterpart were drowned, as their bodies were found in divers parts of the stream. Some womenof rank were, however, in this disorder, conducted to the quarters of the king and the dukeof Aquitaine by their friends, and thus saved from suffering the like infamy wdth others whocould not escape from the place. During the siege, sir Hector, bastard of Bourbon, asprudent and valiant in arms as any of the kings party, while parleying with Enguerrand deBournouville, was so grievously wounded in the face by an arrow that he died; and the duke. Prison of the Chatelet, Paris.—From a print in Millins Antiquites Nationalcs. of Bourbon, who much loved his brother, conceived, on account of this act, which he thoughtwas treacherously done, so violent a hatred against Enguerrand, and some others of thebesieged, that he prevailed on the king and council to have him beheaded, his head placed 304 THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET. on a lance, and his body hung by the shoulders on a gibbet. Many princes and captains,notwithstanding Enguerrand had been their enem
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