. 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 . bishopof Tournay, the grand-master of Rhodes, the lords dOffemont, and de la Viefville, masterPeter de Marigny, and some others
. 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 . bishopof Tournay, the grand-master of Rhodes, the lords dOffemont, and de la Viefville, masterPeter de Marigny, and some others, returned from their embassy. The answer they hadbrought having been soon after considered in council, the king ordered the dukes of Berryand Burgundy to go with the aforesaid ambassadors to Pontoise, when the king of Sicily,tlie dukes of Orleans and of Bourbon, the counts dAlen9on and dEu, came to Vernon, andthence sent their ambassadors to Pontoise, to explain to the dukes of Berry and Burgundy,and the other ambassadors, the causes of their griefs, and the great miseries that must ensueshould the war take place that was on the point of breaking out. 252 THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET. One of their ambassadors harangued well in clear and good French on the above subjects :the substance of what he said was as follows. To explain what has been intrusted to usby our lords, namely, the king of Sicily, the dukes of Orleans £md of Bourbon, the counts. PoNTOisE, as it appeared in the Sixteenth Century—From a print in Chastillions Topographic Fran§oise. dAlen9on and dEu, to you, my very redoubted lords of Berry and Burgundy, and to thegentlemen of the great council of the king and of my lord of Aquitaine, now m their com-pany, since it becomes me to speak the words of peace, trusting in Him who is the soleauthor of peace, and in the good will of my hearers, I sliall take my text from the 33dPsalm, Oculi mei semper ad Dominum; that is to say, My eyes are always turned
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