. 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 . ch was about two oclock in the afternoon, the bells of all the churcheswere rung, and the mitred abbots, and all others of the
. 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 . ch was about two oclock in the afternoon, the bells of all the churcheswere rung, and the mitred abbots, and all others of the clergy, went out in procession to meethim dre?sed in their sacred robes bearing many relics, who, with chauntmg, conducted tliekin£ to the cathedral of Our Lady. When he was come to the great gate,_ he dismounted,andt bare-headed, reverently entered the church, and returned his thanksgivings to God atthe high altar : thence he went to the castle, where he was lodged and the o* ^e^^ wheieverthey could in the town. This city of Rouen, now conquered by the king of Lngiand, Had, THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MON&TRELET. 411 with all Normandy, appertained to France, and been under the obedience of her kings for215 years from the time when king Philip, grandfather to St. Louis, acquired it from kingJohn of England, by judgment of the peers of France, in right of confiscation. King Henry, the day after his entry, had Alain Blanchart, who had been the leader of. Castle akd Fortifications erected by Henry V. in Rouen.—From Millins Antiquites Natlonales. the populace, beheaded : the two others escaped punishment by dint of money. The garrisonwere ordered to inarch out by the gate leading toward the Seine, and were escorted by theEnglish as far as the bridge of St. George, where they were searched by commissaries fromthe king, who took from them all their money, with everything valuable, giving them inreturn only two sols. Some of the gentlemen were even stripped of their handsome ro
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