. 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 . f France. over the princes of the blood ; but Moiistrclct, who wrote f Tramecourt,—a village of Artois, bailiwick of St. under
. 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 . f France. over the princes of the blood ; but Moiistrclct, who wrote f Tramecourt,—a village of Artois, bailiwick of St. under Louis XI., when that order was established, adopts as a matter of coiuse. See more particularly at the tHE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET. SU lives, and thus saying he rode along their ranks attended by two persons. When all wasdone to his satisfaction, he flung into the air a truncheon which he held in his hand, cryingout, Nestrocque * ! and then dismounted, as the king and the others had done. Whenthe English saw sir Thomas throw up his truncheon, they set up a loud shout, to tlie verygreat astonishment of the French. The English seeing the enemy not inclined to advance,marched toward them in handsome array, and with repeated huzzas, occasionally stoppingto recover their breath. The archers, who were hidden in the field, re-echoed these shout-ings, at the same time discharging their bows, while the English army kept advancing upontlio French. Plan of the Battle? of Azincourt.—From a plate in Barantes Histoire des Dues de Bourgogne. [X] French Army. I I English Army. Their archers, amounting to at least thirteen thousand, let off a shower of arrows with alltheir might, and as high as possible, so as not to lose their effect: they were, for tlie mostpart, without any armour, and in jackets, with their hose loose, and hatchets or swordshanging to their girdles ; some indeed were bare-footed and without hats. The princes withthe king of England were the duke of
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