. 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 . en our very dear lord and cousin, king Richard,our predecessor, whom God pardon ! and your lord and brother; in which treaty, y
. 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 . en our very dear lord and cousin, king Richard,our predecessor, whom God pardon ! and your lord and brother; in which treaty, you areyourself a party. Secondly, on account of the alliance that was made between us at Paris,for the due observance of which you made oath, in the hands of our well-beloved knights * Enguerrand VII. lord of Coucy and count of Soissons, His other daughters were, Marj^ wife of Robert Vere, duke died a prisoner in Turkey, as related by Froissart. Mary, of Ireland (the ill-fatedfavourite of Richard II.) and Isabel, his daughter and co-heiress, sold her possessions, and this married to Philip, count of Nevers, youngest son of the castle of Coucy among the re»t, to Louis duke of Orleans, duke of Burgundy. THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET. 17 and esquires, sir Thomas de Spinguchen *, sir Thomas Ramson, and John Morbury, andlikewise gave to them letters signed with your great seal, reciting this treaty of alliance,which I shall hereafter more fully ^^^^^&i!||l Henry IV. of England.—From the effigy on his tomb at Canterbury. Since you have thought proper, without any cause, to act contrary to this treaty, weshall reply as follows, being desirous that God, and all the world, should know it has neverbeen our intention to act any way contradictory to what we have promised. We thereforeinform you, that we have annulled the letter of alliance received from you, and throw asidehenceforward, all love and affection toward you; for it seems to us that no prince, lord,knigh
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