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 MEMOIRS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FROISSART, 
 
 &c. &c. &c.
 
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 MEMOIRS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE ILIFE OF SIR JOHN FROISSAUT: 
 
 To which is added, 
 
 SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPT OF HIS CHRONICLE IN THE ELIZABETHIAN UBRARl" 
 
 AT 
 
 BRESLAU, 
 
 AND 
 
 A COMPLETE INDEX. 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS JOHNES, ESQ. 
 
 BY JAMES HENDERSON. 
 
 MDCCCX.
 
 
 
 MEMOIRS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE ILIFE OF FROISSART. 
 
 John FROISSART, priell, canon, and treafurcr of the collegiate churcU 
 of Chimay, hiftorian and poet, was born in Valenciennes, a town in Hainault, 
 about the year 1337. This date, which appears contradiaed by one fingle 
 pafTage in his Chronicle, is confirmed by a number of others, as well in his 
 Chronicle, as in his manufcript poems. 
 
 Attentive as he was to inform us of the moft minute particulars of 
 his life, he does not fay one word relative to his family. It can only 
 be conje£lured, from a pa%e in his poems, that his father's name was 
 Thomas, and that he was a painter of heraldry. 
 
 We find in his Hiftory a Froiffart Meullier, a young knight from 
 Hainault, who fignalized himfelf by his valour at the fiege of the caftle of 
 Figueras, in Spain, which the Englifh andGafcons attacked m 1381. His 
 country and name induce me to believe that our hiftorian might be a relation 
 of his, and like him fprung from a noble family. 
 
 Froiflart is defcribed as a knight at the beginning of a manufcript in the 
 abbey of St Germain des Prez ; but as he has not this title in any other 
 manufcript, though we have fome of the moft ancient and moft authentic, 
 it feems probable that the copyift has given it to him from his .own 
 
 .authority, 
 
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 His infancy announced what he would one day be. He early manifefted 
 that eager and inquifitive mind which, during the courle of his life, never 
 allowed him to remain long attached to the fame occupations, nor to 
 continue long in the fame place. 
 
 The different games fuitable to that age, of which he gives us a picture 
 equally curious and amufing, kept up in his mind a natural propenfity to 
 difllpation, which during his early fludies muft have tried the patience, as 
 well as exercifed the feverity of his mafters. 
 
 ' He loved hunting, mufic, aflemblies, feafts, dancing, drefs, good 
 living, wine and women : thefe taftes, which almoft all fliowed thcmfelves 
 from twelve years of age, being confirmed by habit, were continued even 
 to his old age, and perhaps never left him. Neither the fenoas thoughts 
 nor the affcdions of Froiflart being yet fufficiently engaged, his love for 
 hiftoiy filled up the void which his paflion for pleafure left, and became to 
 him an inexhauftible fource of amufement. 
 
 He had juft left fchool, and was fcarcely twenty years old, when, at the, 
 entreaty of his ' dear lord and patron fir Robert de Namur, knight, lord of 
 Beaufort,' he undertook to write the hiftory of the wars of his own time, 
 more particularly of thofe which enfued after the battle of Poitiers. Four 
 years afterwards, having gone to England, he prefented a part of this hiftory 
 to queen Philippa of Hainault, the confort of Edward IIL Young as he 
 then was, he had already travelled into the moft diftant provinces of France. 
 The objc6l of his vifit to England was to tear himfelf from an attachment 
 which had tormented him for a long time. This pafllon took pofleffion of 
 his heart from his infancy : it lafted ten years ; and fparks of it were again 
 rekindled in a more advanced age,.' in fpite of liis bald head and grey- 
 hairs.' 
 
 When poets fing their loves, they are not always believed on their 
 word: as Froiflart only mentions his in poetry, all he fays may be treated 
 as pure fi6tion ; but the portrait he draws is fo natural, that we cannot 
 but acknowledge the charafter of a young man in love, and the fimple 
 expreflfions of a real paflion. 
 
 He feigns that when twelve years old Mercury appeared to him, 
 followed by the three goddeffes whole difference Paris had tormerly decided i
 
 that this god, call'ng to mind the protection he had given him from foiir 
 years of age, ordered him to revife the diipute of thefe three divinities; that 
 he had confirmed the judgment of Paris ; and that Venus had promiied 
 him, as a recompence, a miftrefs more beautiful than the fair Helen, and of 
 fuch high birth that from the fcene of the poem to Conftantinople there 
 was not earl, duke, king nor emperor, who would not have edcemcd 
 himfelf fortunate in obtaining her. He was to ferve this beauty for ten 
 years, and his whole life was to be devoted to the adoration of that divinitv 
 who had made him fuch fair promifes. 
 
 Froiflart had been early attached to romances : that of Cleomades was 
 the firft inftrument by which love was enabled to captivate him. He found 
 it in the hands of a young maiden, who invited him to read it with her : he 
 readily confented, for fuch complaifant attentions coft little. There was 
 foon formed betv/een them a literary connexion. Froiflfart lent her the 
 romance of the ' Baillou d'Amours *,' and availed himfelf of the 
 opportunity to flip into it a ballad, in which he firil fpoke of his love. 
 This fpark of afFe6lion became a flame which nothing could exting'jilli ; 
 and Froiflart, having experienced all that agitation which a firfl: paflion 
 infpires, was almofl: reduced to defpair on hearing that his mifl:rels was on 
 the point of being married: his exceffive grief overwhelmed him, and caufed 
 him a fit of illnefs which lafl:ed three months. The bcfl refolution he could 
 take was to travel, in order to diflTipate his chagrin, and to recover his health. 
 As his journey was performed with a large company, he was forced to hide 
 his trouble by more than ordinary attention to the common obl'ervances of 
 .fociety. After two days travelling, during which he had never ceafed 
 making verfes in honour of his mifl:refs, he arrived at a town, which I 
 believe to be Calais, where he embarked. During his paflage, the weather 
 was fo tempefluous as to threaten an immediate wreck of the veflel : this, 
 however, was not capable of fufpending his application in finilhing a 
 rondeau which he had begun in honour of his love. The weather became 
 calm, and the rondeau was completed, when he found himfelf on a coafl:, 
 
 * M. de St Palaye, in a note, fays he is not acquainted with this romance. Baillou %nitie 
 ^Bailiff.
 
 4 
 
 wliere, as he fays, ' tliey love war better than peace, and where ftranger* 
 are well received.' He fpeaks of England, — the reception given him, the 
 amufements procured for him in the focieties of ' lords, ladies and damfels,' 
 and the carefles they loaded him with ; but nothing was able to calm the 
 me'ancholy which overwhelmed him, — fo that, not being longer able to 
 fupport the pangs of abfence, he refolved to return nearer to the lady of 
 his heart. 
 
 Queen Philippa of Hainault detained him in England, and learnt from 
 a virelay, which he prefented to her, the caufe of his trouble : ihe toob 
 compaflion on him by ordering him to go back to his own country, on 
 condition, however, of his promife to return, and furnilhed him with., 
 money and horfes to perform the journey. 
 
 Love foon condudted him to the lady of his affe6lions. FroifiTart let no ■ 
 opportunity flip of frequenting whatever company the might honour with; 
 her prefence, and of converfing with her. We have before feen ihe was o£ 
 fuch high birth that ' kings and emperors might have fought her.' Thefe. 
 words taken literally would only be apphcable to a perfon of blood royal 
 or the iflTuc of a fovereign prince ; but how can we connect the idea of. 
 fuch high birth with the detail he gives us of the fecret converfations, the 
 amufements and affemblies which he was at liberty to partake of by day or 
 night ? and, as if thefe traits were not fufficient to make her known at the. 
 time he wrote, he feems to have wilhed to point her out more clearly by the 
 name of Anne, in the enigmatical verfes which make part of his manufcript 
 poems. It may be prefumed that this love, fo paflionate and tender, had the 
 nfual fate of almoll: every paflion. 
 
 Froiifart ipeaks in one of his rondeaus of another lady whom he had 
 loved, and whole name, compoled of five letters, was to be found in that 
 of Polixena : this may be Alix, which was formerly written Aelix. There 
 is reafon to believe he had a tliird flame called Margaret, and that it is ihe 
 whom he indircftly celebrates in a poem * under the title, and in honour 
 of the flower which bears her name -j-. 
 
 * ' Dittie dc 'a Fkur de la Margueiite,' pages 70 and the following of his manufcript poems. 
 t The cnglilTi reader muft be informed, that Maiguerite is not only the name of a woman but 
 aHb of the flower called Daiiy and of a pearl.
 
 Perhaps he fought in thefe eplfodical amours fome remedy for a palTiori, 
 which, according to his own account, was unfortunate : at leafl: we know 
 that, in defpair for the httle fucccfs which had attended all his afliduities 
 and attentions to his firft miftrefs, he took the refolution of again abfenting 
 himfelf from her. His abfence was now longer than the preceding one : 
 he returned to England, and attached himfelf to the fervice oF queen Philippa, 
 This pnncels, filler to the countefs of Namur, wife of Robert, on whom 
 Froiffart feems to have been a dependant, faw ahvays with pleafure her 
 countrymen from Hainault : fhe loved letters, and the college which fhe 
 foundid, at this day known at Oxford under the naaie of Queen's College, 
 is an illullrious monument of the proteilion ihe granted to them : FroilTart, 
 therefore, united all the titles which could merit the afFe6lion of queea 
 Philippa. 
 
 The hiftory which he prefented to her, as I have before mentioned, 
 whether at the time of his firfl: journey or his fecond, (for it is not pofTible . 
 to decide which of the two,) was very well received, and probably gained 
 him the title of Clerk (that is to fay, fecretary or writer) of the chamber to 
 this princefs, which he was in pofTeflion of from 1361. 
 
 In the age of Froiflart, all the world was perfuaded that love was the 
 incentive to the moft brilliant a6lions of courage and virtue : knights made 
 a parade of it in tournaments: warriors expofed themfelves to the moft. 
 perilous combats to maintain the honour and beauty of their ladies. It was 
 then believed that love might be confined to a delicate intercourfe of gallantry 
 and tendernefs : it is almoft always under this form that we iee it reprel'ented 
 in the greater part of thofe literary and poetical efforts which have been 
 handed down to us from that period : the ladies blulhed not in feeling fo. 
 pure a paflion, and the moft modeft of them made it the ordinary fubject 
 of their converfations, . 
 
 The queen of England frequently amufed. herfelf by making Froiflart. 
 compofe amorous ditties ; but this occupation muft be confidered folely as 
 a relaxation no way impeding more lerious works, fince, during the five 
 years he was attached to the fervice of this princefs, he travelled at her 
 expenfe to various parts of Europe, the object of which journey leems to 
 have been a refearch after whatever might enrich his hiltory. 1 draw this.
 
 Gonclufion from a preface which is found at the head of the fourth volume 
 in feveral manufcripts of the Chronicle of Froiflart; and as it is not to be 
 found in the printed copies *, I thought the infertion of it would not be 
 improper here. 
 
 * At the requefl, wifli and pleafure of that mofl: high and noble prince, 
 my very dear lord and patron Guy de Chatillon, count de Blois, lord of 
 Avene, of Chimay, of Beaumont, of Schonoven, of Gouda, — I John 
 Froiflart, prieft, chaplain to my very dear lord above named, and at this 
 time treafurer and canon of Chimay, and of Lille in Flanders, am again 
 awakened, and entered into my ftudy, to labour and work at the grand and 
 noble matters that, in former times, occupied my attention, which treat of 
 and difplay the feats and events of the wars between France and England, 
 and their allies and adherents, as they clearly appear from the treaties which 
 have been made and completed until this very day of my again bemg 
 awakened. 
 
 ' Now, vou who read, have read, or fliall read this hiflory, confider 
 in your own minds how I could have known and colle6led the fa6ls of 
 which I treat, concerning fo many different parties. In truth, I mud inform 
 you that I began my colle6tions at the early age of twenty years, and came 
 into the world at the time thefe events were paffing, in the knowledge of 
 which I have always taken greater pleafure than in any thing elfe. God 
 has been fo gracious to me that I was well with all parties, and of the 
 houfehold of kings; more efpecially of king Edward's and his noble 
 queen's, the lady Philippa of Hainault, queen of England, lady of Ireland 
 and of Acquitaine, to whom in my youth I was fecretary, and amuled her 
 with gallant ditties and madrigals of love. Through affection to that noble 
 and puiflant lady to whom I belonged, all the other great lords, dukes, carls, 
 barons and knights, of whatever nation they might be, loved me, law me 
 with pleafure, and were of the greateft fervice to me. Thus, under the 
 
 * M. de St Palaye is not quite coireft ; for the beginning of this preface is in the printed 
 edilioi? of Veraid, and in another printed edition which I believe was not known to Denys Sauvage 
 nor to M. de St Palaye. It will be more particularly mentioned hereafter. The preface in my printed 
 editions is not fo long as this, and fomewhat diiFereot. It is not noticed in tlie editions of Denys 
 Sauvage.
 
 protedlion of this good lady, and at her coft, as well as at the expenfe ot 
 great lords, I have fearched in my time the greater part of Chriftendom 
 (in truth, who fecks will find); and wherever 1 came, I made inquiry after 
 fuch ancient knights and fquircs as had been prefent at thefe deeds of arms 
 and (uch as were well enabled to fpeak of them. I fought alio for heralds 
 of good repute, to verify and confirm what I might have heard eliewhere of 
 thefe matters. In this manner have I collected the materials for tnis noble 
 hiftory ; and that gallant count de Blois before mentioned has taken great 
 pains in it. As long as through God's grace I fliall live, I Ihall continue ■ 
 it; for the more I work at it, the greater plea(ure I receive, — like the gallant 
 knight or fquire enamoured with arms, who, by perfeverance and attention 
 perfe6ts and accompliihes himielt, thus, by labouring and workino- on this- 
 fubjedl, I acquire greater ability and dehght.' 
 
 Of all the particulars of Froiffart's life during his refidence in Eno-land 
 we only know that he was prefent at the feparation of the king and queen 
 in 1361, with their Ion the prince of Wales and the princcls his lady, who 
 were going to take pofiefTion of the government of Acquitaine; and that he 
 was between Eltham and Weftmmfter in the year 1363, when king John 
 pafled on his return to England.. 
 
 There is in his poems a paftoral, which feems to allude exclufively and 
 undoubtedly to that event. With regard to his travels during the time he 
 was attached to the fervice of the queen, he employed fix months in Scotland, 
 and penetrated as far as the Highlands. He travelled on horfeback,- with his 
 portmanteau behind him, and followed by a greyhound. . 
 
 The king of Scotland, and many lords whofe names he has preferved 
 to us, treated him fo handlbmely that he willied to have returned thither. 
 Willian^ earl of Douglas lodged him during fifteen days in his caltle of 
 Dalkeith, five miles from Edinburgh. We are ignorant of the date of this 
 journey,— and of another, into North Wales, which, I believe, muft have been 
 about the fame time. 
 
 He was in France, afMelun fur Seine, about the 20th of April 13G6 : 
 perhaps private reafons might have led him to take that road to Bordeaux, 
 where he was on All-faints-day of that year, when the princefs of Wales was 
 brought to bed of a fon, who was afterwards king Richard II , The prince
 
 Gf Wales fetting out a few days after this event for the war in Spain, Froiffart 
 accompanied him to Dax, where the prince refided lome time. He expected 
 to have attended him durins; the continuance of this grand expedition; but 
 the pr'nce would not permit him to go farther, and ihortly after his arrival 
 fcnt him back to the queen his mother. 
 
 Froiflart could not have made any long ftay in England, for the following 
 year he was at different italian courts. It was this lame year, that is to fay, 
 1368, that Lionel duke of Clarence, fon of the king of England, efpouled 
 Joland, daughter of Galeazzo II. duke of Milan. The marriage was 
 celebrated the 25th of April, and Lionel died the 1 7th of 06lober 
 following. Froiffart, who probably was in his fuite, was prefent at the 
 magnificent reception which Amadeus count de Savoye, lurnamed the 
 Count Verd, gave him on his return: he defcribes the feafls on this 
 cccafion, which laftcd three days, and he does not forget to tell us that 
 they danced a virelay of his compofition. 
 
 From the court of Savoy he returned to Milan, where the fame count 
 Amadeus gave him a handfome Cottehardie*, with twenty florins. of gold; 
 and thence he went to Bologna and Ferrara, where he received forty ducats 
 from the king of Cyprus, and then to Rome. 
 
 Inftead of the modefl equipage with which we have feen him travel into 
 -Scotland, he was now a man of importance, travelling on a handfome horfe 
 attended by a hackney. 
 
 It was about this period that Froiffart experienced a lofs for which 
 nothing could compenfate. Philippa of Hainault, queen of England, 
 who had loaded him with wealth, died in 1369. He compofed a lay on 
 this melancholy event, of which, however, he was not a witnefs ; for he 
 fays in another place, that in 1396, it was twenty-feven years fince he had 
 /een England. According to feveral authorsf , he wrote the life of queen 
 Philippa ; but this affertion is not founded on any proofs. 
 
 * Or, as it is more often written, Cotardie, — a fort of drefs common to men and women : 
 here it means a Pourpoint. This was one of the afts of generofity which great lords were 
 accuftomcd to perform : they put money into the purfe, which, according to the ufage of diat 
 time, was attached to the coat. St Palaye. 
 
 t Voffiu5 dc Hiftoricis Lati:iis, hb. iii. cap. 4. BuUart, Academic dcs Sciences, torn, i, p. 124.
 
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 Independently of the emi)loyment of clerk of the chamber to the queen 
 of England which FroifTart hnd held, he had alfo been of the houfeho'd of 
 Edward III. and even of that of John king of France. As there are feveral 
 other princes and lords of whofe houfeholds he had been, whom he calls his 
 lords and patrons, it is proper to obferve, that by this mode of fpeech, he 
 means not only thnfe princes and lords to whom he had been attached as 
 a dependant, but likewife tbofe who had made him prefents or rendered 
 him fcrvices, or who, having received him in their courts or caltles, had 
 admitted him to their tables. 
 
 FroifHirt, having loft his patronefs queen Philippa, did not return to 
 England, but went into his own country, where he obtained the living of 
 Leftines. Of all that he performed during the time he exercifed this 
 miniftry, he tells us nothing more than that the tavern-keepers of Leftines 
 had five hundred francs of his money in the fliort fpace of time he was their 
 re6tor. It appears from a manufcript journal of the bifliop of Chartres, 
 chancellor to the duke of Anjou, that, according to letters fealed on the 
 12th December 1381, this prince caufed to be feized fifty-fix quires of the 
 Chronicle of FroilTart, re6lor of the parifli-church of Leftines, which the 
 hiftorian had fent to be illuminated, and then to be forwarded to the king 
 of England, the enemy of France. 
 
 Froiflart attached himfelf afterwards to Winceftaus de Luxembourg 
 duke of Brabant, perhaps in the capacity of fecretary, according to the 
 cuftom of princes and lords in thofe days, who employed clerks to manage 
 their affairs, and their correfpondence, and at the lame time to amufe them 
 by their knowledge or their wit. 
 
 "Winceflaus had a tafte for poetry : he had caufed Froiflart to make a 
 colle6lion of his fongs, his rondeaus and virelays, — who, adding fome of his 
 own pieces to thofe of the prince, formed a fort of romance, under the title 
 of Meliador, or the Knight of the Sun ; but the duke did not live to fee the 
 completion of the work, for he died in 1384. 
 
 Almoft immediately after this event, FroifTart found another patron : he 
 was made clerk of the chapel to Guy count de Blois, and was not long in 
 teftifying his gratitude to his new patron, by a paftoral on the bcrrothing of 
 Xouis count de Dunois, fon of Guy, to Mary daughter of the duke of Berry. 
 
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 Two years after, on the folemnization of this marriage at Bourges, he- 
 celebrated it in a fort of epithalamium, fufficiently ingenious for thofe times, 
 entitled ' The Temple of Honour.' 
 
 He pafled the years 1385, 1386 and 1387, fometimes in the Blafois^ 
 fometimes in Tourainc ; but the count de Blois having engaged him to 
 continue his hiftory, which he had left unfinillied, he determined, in 1388, 
 to take advantage of the peace juft concluded, to vifit the court of Gaiton 
 Phoebus count de Foix and de Beam, in order to gam full information of 
 whatever related to foreign countries, and the more diftant provinces of 
 the kingdom, where he knew that a great number of warriors fignalized- 
 themfelves daily by the mod gallant adlions. 
 
 His age and his health ftill allowed him to bear great fatigue : his memory 
 was fufficiently ftrong to retain whatever he fhould hear, and his judgment 
 clear enough to point out to him the ufe he fhould make of it. 
 
 He fet out with letters of recommendation from the count de Blois to 
 Gaflon Phoebus, and took the road through Avignon. One of his paftorals 
 informs us that he refidcd in the environs of an abbey *, fituated between 
 Lunel and Montpelier, and that he gained the afFe6l;ons of a young perfon, 
 who bewailed his departure. In the fame poem he tells us that he carried 
 with him four grey-hounds f, as a prefentto the count de Foix. Gaftori- 
 was paffionately fond of dogs, and had upwards of fixteen hundred always 
 in his kennel. There is extant a treatife written by him on hunting, which 
 is preferved in manufcript in feveral hbraries, and was printed in 1520. 
 
 FroifTart went from CarcafTonne to Pamiers, of which he gives an 
 agreeable defcnpt'on. He remained there three days waiting for the chance 
 of meeting fome perfon with whom he might travel in.o beam. He was 
 fortunate enough to meet with a knight from the county of hoix, who was 
 returning thither from Avignon, and they journeyed together. 
 
 Sir Ei'paing du Lyon, the name of the knight, was a man of high 
 diftin6lion, who had confiderablc commands, and had been einpioyed all 
 
 * Probably S Geniez, a monafterv of nuns, one league and a half from the road -which leads 
 *-om MontpeJier to Lunel. — St Palaye. 
 
 t 'J heir names were Tnftan, He€tor, Brun and Reliant.— St P-'M.avs.
 
 n 
 
 his life in negotiations as delicate as they were important. The two 
 travellers agreed perfecElly well : the knight, who had lerved in all the wars 
 in Gafcony, was equally defirous to learn every thing which related to thole 
 that FroifTart was acquainted with, — and Froiflart, more in a fituation to 
 fatisfy him than any one, was not lefs curious to be infonr.cd of thole events 
 in which the knight had borne a part : they mutually communicated all 
 they knew -with a reciprocal complaifance. They rode fide by fide, and 
 frequently only a foot's pace: their whole journey was palled in convcrfationb, 
 by which they mutually inftrucled each otiicr. 
 
 Towns, caftles, ruins, plains, heights, valleys, defiles, every thing 
 awakened the curiofity of Froiflart, and recalled to the memory of fir 
 Efpaing du Lyon the different actions which had there paflfed under his 
 eyes, or which he had heard related by thofe who had been engaged in 
 them. 
 
 The hiftorian, too circumftantial in the recital which he gives us of 
 thefe converfations, relates even the exclamations by which he teftified his 
 gratitude to the knight for all the interefting intelligence he was pleafed to 
 give him. 
 
 If they arrived at a town before fun-fet, they availed themfelves of the 
 remnant of the day to examine the out-works of the place, or to obferve 
 thofe parts of it which had fufFered from aflaults. On their return to the 
 inn, they continued the fame converfations, either between themfelves or 
 with other knights and efquires who might be lodged there ; and Froiflart 
 never went to bed until he had put down in writing every particular he had 
 heard. 
 
 After a journey of fix days, they arrived at Ortez. This town, one of 
 the moil: confiderable in Beam, was the ordinary refidence of Gaft^on count 
 de Foix and vifcount de Beam, furnamed Phoebus, on account of his 
 beauty. Froiflart could not have chofen a court more fuitable to his views. 
 The count de Foix, at the age of fifty-nine, was the mofl: vigorous, the 
 handfomefl: and befl: made man of that period. Adroit at all exercifes, 
 valorous, an accomplifhed captain, noble and magnificent, he never fufl^ered 
 any warrior who was his guefl: to depart without carrying away proofs of 
 his liberality : his caftle was the rendezvous of all thofe brave captains who
 
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 had diflinguiflied themfelves in combats or in tournaments. Their 
 converfations folely ran on attacks of places, furprifes, fieges, aflaults, 
 fkirmifhes and battles. Their amufements were games of addrefs and 
 ftrength, tilts, tournaments and the chale, more laborious and hardly lefs 
 dangerous than war itfelf. Thefe details deferve to be read in Froifiart : 1 
 can only imperfedlly trace what he has fo excellently painted. 
 
 The count de Foix having learnt from fir Efpaing du Lyon the arrival 
 of Froiflart, who was well known at the court of Ortez, by the two firft 
 volumes of his Chronicle, fent to feek him at the houle of one of his efquires, 
 who had received and lodged him ; and, feeing him at a diftaiice, laid to 
 him fmiling, and in good French, ' that he was perfectly well acquainted 
 with him although he had never feen him before, but that he had heard t 
 much talk of him, and he retained him in his houl'ehold.' 
 
 This exprefllon, as I have before faid, does not mean that Froiffart was 
 lodged in the caftle, but only that his expenles were defrayed by the count 
 during the winter he pafled at his court. His moft ufual occupation, 
 during that time, was to amule Gafton, after his fupper, by reading to him 
 the romance of Meliador, which he had brought with him. Every evening 
 he repaired to the caftle at midnight, which was the hour the count fat 
 down to table, and none dared to interrupt the reading. Gaflon himfclf, 
 who liftened with the greateft atteniion, only fpoke to afk qucftions 
 concerning the book ; and he never lent him away before he had made 
 him drink all the wine which had remained on the table trom his 
 own cup. 
 
 Sometimes this prince took pleafure to inform him of thofe particulars 
 of the wars in which- he had diitinguifhed himielf. Froiifart did not gain 
 le!s information from his frequent converfations with the knights and efquires 
 whom he found afTembled at Ortez, more eipecially from the knights of 
 Arragon and of England, attached to the houleaold of the duke of 
 Lancafter, who at that time refided at Bordeaux. They related to him all 
 they knew of the battles ot the kings John of CaltiUe aiid John of Portugal, 
 and their allies. Among others, tiie famous balfot de IVlauleon, in giving 
 him the hilfory of his own life, related to him alio the particulars of almolt 
 all tlie wars which had taken place in the different provinces of France^ _
 
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 and even in Spain, from the tune of the battle of Poitiers, at which period 
 he fir'"' bore arms. 
 
 Although he applied himfelf, without relaxation, to collecl hiftorical 
 memoirs, FroKfart gave, however, fome moments to poetry. We have a 
 paftoral by him, which he feems to have compoled in the county of Foix, 
 in honour of Gafton Phoebus. He fays, that being 
 
 ' En beau Pre vert et plaiiant 
 Par defTus Gave la riviere 
 Entre Pau et Ortais leant,' 
 he faw fhepherds and (hepherdefles who were converfing of different lords 
 and the arms they bore. He adroitly makes ufe of this fiction to name wjth 
 praife all thofe from whom he had received any marks of liberahty, and 
 terminates his hft with the count de Foix. 
 
 After a long re'idence at the court of Ortez, Froiflart began to think of 
 his departure. He was detained by Gafton, who gave him hopes that an 
 opportunity would foon offer for him to travel in good company. The 
 marriage of the countcfs of Boulogne, a relation of the count, having been 
 concluded with the duke of Berry, the young bride was condu6led from 
 Ortez to Morlas, where the equipages of the duke, her hufband, were waiting 
 for her. He fat out in her fuite, after having, received proofs of the 
 generofity of Gafton, who warmly preflTed him to return. He accompanied 
 the princefs to Avignon, and during the remainder of the journey which 
 fhe took acrofs the Lyonnois, la Breffe, le Fores and the Bourbonnois, as 
 far as Riom in Auvergne. 
 
 The ftay at Avignon was unfortunate to Froiflart, for he was robbed 
 there. This melancholy adventure was the fubject of a long poem, in 
 which he introduces leveral incidents of his life, and which I have made 
 ufe of in this memoir. 
 
 This poem fhews that the defire of vifitlng the tomb of the cardinal de 
 Luxembourg, who died with the reputation of a faint, was not the fole 
 moti\e which had induced him to pafs again through Avignon in the fuite 
 of the young princefs, but that he was charged with a private commiffion 
 from the lord de Coucy. He might, as he fays, have endeavoured to feek 
 redrefs for the lofs of his money by folicitmg a benefice; but this refource
 
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 was not to his tafte. He laid greater ftrefs on the generofity of the lord de 
 la Riviere and the count de Sancerre, who accompanied the duchefs of 
 Berry, and on riiat of the vifcount d'Afci. He reprefents himfelf, in this 
 poem, as a man of much expenfe: befides the revenue of the living of 
 Leftines, which was confiderable, he had received, fince he was twenty-five 
 years old, two thimfand francs, of which nothing remained. The collections 
 for his work had cofl: him feven hundred francs, but he regretted not this 
 expenfe ; for, as he fays, * I have compofed many a hiftory which will be 
 fpoken of by pofterity.' The remainder was fpent among the tavern 
 keepers at Leftines and in his travels, which he always performed with a 
 good equipage, well mounted, well drelTed, and living well wherever he 
 went. 
 
 FroifTart had been prefent at all the feaft:s which were given on the 
 marriage of the duke of Berry, and celebrated the eve of Whitfunaay at 
 Riom in Auvergne. He compofed a paftoral for the morrow of the 
 nuptials ; and returning to France wiih the lord de la Riviere, he went 
 to Paris. His natural a6livity, and his ardour for information, which 
 inceflantly occupied his mind, did not permit him to remain there long. 
 We have feen him in fix months go from the Blaifois to Avignon, then 
 to the county of Foix ; whence he returned again to Avignon, crofling 
 Auvergne to go to Paris. He was in lefs than two years fucceffively in 
 the Cambrefis, in Hainault, Holland, Picardy, a fecond time in Paris, at 
 the extremity of Languedoc ; then again at Paris, and at Valenciennes ; 
 whence he went to Bruges, Sluys in Zealand, and at lafl: into his own 
 country. 
 
 He accompanied the lord de Coucy into the Cambrefis to the caftle of 
 Crevecoeur, which the king had juft given to him, — to whom he related all 
 he had feen, — and learnt from him the different particulars of the negotiations 
 between France and England. 
 
 After having ftaid fifteen days in his own country, he pafled a month 
 in Holland with the count de Blois, entertaining him with the hiftory of 
 his travels. He then went to Leulinghen, to learn the detaiis of the 
 negotiations for peace which were carrying on at that place, and was 
 prefent at the magnificent entry of Ifabella of Bavaria into Paris. The
 
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 exa6lnefs with which he defcribes the ceremonies obferved between the 
 pope and Charles VI. at Avignon, feems to prove that he was an 
 eye-witnefs of their meeting: this is the more probable, bccaufe it is 
 certain that Charles VI. went from Avignon to Touloufe, to receive the 
 homage of the count de Foix, — when FroifTart was prefent, and heard 
 their converfation. 
 
 Nothing of novelty pafled of which FroifTart did not wifh to be a 
 fpe6lator ; feafts, tournaments, conferences for peace, interviews of princes, 
 their entries, nothing eft aped his curiofity. It appears, that at the beginning 
 of the year 1390, he returned to his own country, — and that he was folely 
 occupied in the continuation of his hiftory, and in completing it, from the 
 intelligence he had amalTed from all parts with fo much labour and fatio-ue. 
 However, what he had learnt relative to the war in Spain did not fatisfy 
 him : he felt a fcruple at only having heard one fide, — taat is to fay, the 
 Gafcons and Spaniards, who had been attached to the king of Caftille. 
 It was the duty of an exa6l and judicious hiftorian to know alfo what the 
 Portuguefe had to fay on this fubje<£l ; and on the information he had, that 
 numbers of that nation were to be found at Bruges, he went thither. 
 
 Fortune ferved him beyond his hopes ; and the enthufiafm with which 
 he fpeaks of it, evinces the ardour he felt for a perfedl knowledge of facts. 
 On his arrival, he learnt that a portuguefe knight, ' a valiant and wife man, 
 and of the council of the king of Portugal,' whofe name was Juan Fernando 
 Portclet, had lately come to Middleburgh in Zealand. 
 
 Portelet was on his road to Pruffia to join in the war againft the infidels, 
 and had been preient in all the wars of Portugal. FroilTart immediately fet 
 out, m company with a Portuguefe, a friend of tlic knight, — went to Sluys, 
 embarked, and arrived at Middleburgh, where his fcUo»v- traveller prefented 
 him to Portelet. 
 
 This knight, ' gracious, amiable and eafy of accefs,' related to him, 
 during the fix days they pafled together, every thing which had been done 
 in Portugal and Spain, from the death of king Ferdinand until his departure 
 from Portugal. FroifTart, equally pleaied with the recitals of Portelet and 
 with his pohtenefs, took leave of him, and returned home, — where, havuig
 
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 arranged all the information be had acquired in his various travels, he 
 compofed a new book, which makes the third of his hiftory. 
 
 7 he pafTage whence thefe particulars arc taken adds, that FroifTart, on 
 quitting Zealand, and before his return to his own country, went once 
 more to Rome. Although, in this inftance, the printed copies are 
 conformable to the manufcripts, this journey, of which no other mention 
 is made, feems to me quite improbable. Denys Sauvage aflTures us, in a 
 marginal note, that inflead of Rome, we Ihould read Bruges, Sluys or 
 Valenciennes : it is much more natural to read Damme, a port in the 
 neighbourhood of Sluys, where, as we have feen, the hiftorian embarked. 
 
 It is uncertain how long Froiffart remained in Hainault : we only know 
 that he was again in Paris in 1 'SQii, at the time when the conflable de Cliflbn 
 was aflaffinated by Peter de Craon; and at Abbeville towards the end of that 
 fame year or the beginning of the next, during the conferences which were 
 held there by the plenipotentiaries from France and England, when they at 
 lad eftablillied a truce for four years. 
 
 From the year 1378, FroifTart had obtained from the anti-pope Clement VI L 
 the reverfion of a canonry at Lille. In the colle6lion of his poetry, which 
 was completed in 1393, and in a preface, which is to be met with infeveral 
 manufcripts at the beginning of the fourth volume of his hiftory, compofed 
 about this time, he ftyles himfelf canon of Lihe; but Clement VII. dying 
 in 1394, he gave up his expe6lations of the reverfion, and began to ftyle 
 himfelf canon and treafurer of the collegiate church of Chimay, which he 
 probably owed to the friendlliip of the count de Biois, who refpedled him 
 much, — the lordlliip of Chimay being part of the inheritance which had 
 fallen into the count, in 1381, by the death of John de Chatillon, count 
 de Blois, the laft of his brothers. 
 
 It was twenty-feven years fmce FroifTart had left England, when, taking 
 advantage of the truce between the French and Englilh, he returned thither 
 in 1395, furnifhed with letters of recommendation to the king and his 
 uncles. From Dover, where he difembarked, he went to Canterbury, 
 made his offering at the fhrine of Thomas a Bccket, and, from refpe6l to 
 the memory of the prince of Wales, to whoui he had been perfedfly well
 
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 Tcnown, he vifited his magnificent maufoleum. He faw there the young 
 king Richard, who had arrived to return thanks to God for the fuccefs of 
 his lad campaien in Ireland ; but, in fpite of the good intentions of fir 
 Thomas Percy, high fteward of England, who had promifed to procure 
 him an audience of the king, he could not be prefented, and was obliged 
 to follow this prince to the different places he vifited, until he came to 
 Leeds-caftle *. 
 
 This time was not loft on our hiftorian : the Englifh were ftill full of 
 their expedition to Ireland, and he got them to tell him both their own 
 exploits and the marvellous things they had feen there. Being yet at 
 Leeds-caftle, he prefented to the duke of York his letters from the count 
 de Hainault and the count d'Oftrevanti-. ' Mafter John,' faid the duke to 
 him, * keep near to our perfon and to our people, who will ftiew you all 
 love and kindnefs : we are bounden fo to do, from afFecSlion to former times, 
 and to our lady-mother, to whom you were attached : we well remember 
 thofe times.' He afterwards introduced him into the king's chamber, who 
 received him with very diftinguiftied marks of good will, Richard took 
 the letters he had been charged with ; and, having read them, faid, that 
 ' fince he had been of the houfehold of his grandfather and of the queen 
 his grandmother, he muft be ftill of the houfehold of England.' 
 
 FroifTart, however, had not yet been able to prefent to the king the 
 romance of Meliador, which he had brought with him -, and Percy advifed 
 him to wait a more favourable opportunity. Two important obje6ls 
 occupied the mind of Richard : one was his intended marriage with 
 Ifabella of France ; the other, the oppofition of the people of Acquitaine 
 to the donation which he had made of that province to his uncle, the duke 
 of Lancafter. The prelates and barons had been fummoned to Eltham, to 
 deliberate on thefe two affairs ; and FroilTart had followed the court. He 
 wrote down regularly all he heard in his converfations with the different 
 englifti lords; and Richard Sturry, who was of the king's cabinet council, 
 intrufted him, in confidence, with every refolution they had determined 
 
 * In Kent. 
 
 -t Afterwards carl-of Holland, .and knight of the Garter. 
 
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 upon, begging him only to keep them fecret until they fliould be publicly 
 divulged. 
 
 At laft, on the Sunday which followed the holding of this council, the 
 duke of York, fir Richard Sturry and fir Thomas Percy, finding the king 
 but little occupied, mentioned the romance which Froiflart had brought 
 with him. The prince afked to fee it; and the hiftorian fays, ' He faw it 
 in his chamber, — for I had it always with me, and placed it upon his bed. 
 He then opened and looked into it, and was greatly pleafed. Indeed, he 
 ought to have been pleafed ; for it was illuminated, and the writing much 
 ornamented : it was befides bound in crimfon velvet, with ten filver-gilt 
 nails, and a golden rofe, in the midft of two clafps gilt, richly chafed with 
 gold rofes. Then,' continues Froiflart, ' the king inquired what fubje6l it 
 treated of; and I told him, Of love. He was delighted with this anfwer, 
 and looked into different parts of the book, and read therein ; for he read 
 and fpoke French perfe6tly well. He then ordered or.e of his knights, 
 named fir Richard Credon, to carry it to his cabinet ; and he feemed much 
 obliged to me for it.' 
 
 Henry Cafiede, an englifli efquire, who had been prefent at this 
 converfation, and who knew befides that Froifllirt was writing his hiitory, 
 coming up to him, inquired if he had been informed of the details of the 
 conquefts which the king had juft made in Ireland. Froilfart pretended to 
 be ignorant of them, in order to engage the efquire in converlation, who 
 took pleafure in recounting them to him. 
 
 Every thing the hiflorian heard, — among the reft, the repaft which the 
 king of England gave in Ireland to the four kings, after having conquered 
 them, — excited in him very great regret for not having come to England 
 a year fooner, as he Mas preparing to do, when the news of the death of 
 queen Anne of Luxembourg, Richard's firft wife, made him alter his 
 intentions. He would not have failed to have gone to Ireland, to have 
 feen every thing himfelf; for he was much interefted in collecting the 
 minuted circumftances of this expedition, in order to entertain ' his lords' 
 the duke of Bavaria and his fon, who had on Friezland fimilar pretenfions 
 to thofe of the king of England on Ireland. 
 
 Alter three months nfidence in England, Froiflart took his leave of the 
 king. This prince, v»hom he had followed in his dift'erent txcurfions near
 
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 London, ordered one hundred nobles * to be given hini, as a laft mark of 
 his afFedtion, in a goblet -f- of filver, gilt, weighing two marcs. 
 
 The melancholy end of Richard, which happened in 1399, is related 
 at the end of the fourth volume of Froiffart's hiftory, who acquits himlclf 
 moft gratefully to this prince by the afFe6ling manner in which he laments 
 his misfortunes. At the fame time he remarks, that in this event he faw 
 the accomplilliment of a prediction which had been made refpecting Richard, 
 ^'^'hen he was born at Bordeaux; and alio of a prophecy in the romance of 
 Brutus J, which pointed out the prince who would dethrone him. 
 
 The death of Guy count de Blois happened foon after Froiffart's return 
 home : he mentions it in his Chronicle, under the year 1397. He was then 
 fixty years of age, and muft have lived at lead four years more ; for he 
 relates fome events of the year 1 iOO. If we believe Bodin and La Popliniere, 
 he lived to 1420 ; but thefe two writers have probably been deceived by the 
 words which begin the laft chapter of his hiltory, — ' En I'an de Grace mil 
 quatre cent ung moins :' inftead of reading ' ung,' as it is written in feveral 
 manufcripts and in the black letter editions, they mull have read ' vingt.' 
 
 Another paflage in Froiifart may alfo have given rife to a belief that he 
 lived to about the middle of the fifteenth century. In fpeaking of the 
 banifliment of the count de Harcourt, who perfuaded the Englifh to make 
 a defcent in Normandy, he fays, that the melancholy effeds of this invafion 
 were vifible for more than a hundred years after. Thefe terms muft not be 
 taken literally : the author wrote rather as forefeeing thole evils to come 
 which he dreaded, than as being a witnefs of their fatal effects. 
 
 It is not, however, pofTible to decide in what year he died : it only 
 appears that it was in the month of October, fince his death is announced 
 in that month in the obituary of the collegiate church of St Monegunda, at 
 Chimay, from which I have added an extracl; at the end of this memoir. 
 
 * This fum may amount to about twenty-five guineas of our prefent coin. — St Palaye. 
 
 + This was called by our anceftors a Henepec, id eji, hanap, full of money ; whence comes 
 the Hanaper Office in the englifh treafury. St Palay£. 
 
 J Sec particulars of Wace, author of the romance of Brutus, in Mr Ellis's Specimens of early 
 Englifh Poets.
 
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 According to an old tradition of the country, he was interred in the chapel- 
 of St Anne, in this collegiate church; and indeed it feems very probable- 
 that he fhould end his days in his own chapter. 
 
 The name of FroifTart was common to feveral perfons who lived at the 
 fame time with our hiltorian : befides Froiflart Meullier, the young efquire 
 from Hainault, whom I mentioned in the beginning of tnis memoir, we 
 find in the Chronicle of our author a Dom Froiffart, who had fignalized 
 himlelf at the fiege which the count de Hainault had formed m 1340 
 againft the town of St Amand. This monk, defended for a confiderable- 
 time a breach which had been made in the walls of the abbey, and did not 
 abandon it before he had killed or wounded eighteen men. At the end cf 
 fome charters of the count de Foix, there is a fignature of J. Froiifart, or 
 Jaquinot Froiffart : he was a fecretary to the count, and perhaps a relation 
 of the hiftorian. There is alfo mention m.ade, in the regiters of the 
 * Trefor des Chartes,' of a remiffion granted in 1375 to Philebert Froiifart,, 
 efquire, who had been in a company of Gafcons in the country of Guiennej. 
 under the command of Charles d'Artois, count de Pezenas 
 
 To avoid interrupting the thread of the narrative, 1 have deferred, to 
 the end of this memoir, the examination of a paffage in the poetry of 
 Froiffart, which points out, but in oblcure terms, one of the principal 
 circumftances of his life. He recals the faults of his youth, and particularly 
 reproaches himfelf for having quitted a learned protciiion tor whicn he had 
 natural talents, and which had gained him mucii refpecl (he feems to puuit 
 at hiflory or poetry) to follow another, which, thougii by tar more lucraLive, 
 was as little iuited to him as that of arms, and, having failed in it, nad 
 made him fall from that degree of honour to whicn the tirlt liaa elevated 
 him. He fays, he is determined to repair his fault, and, returnmg to his 
 former occupation^;, tranlmit to poflenty the glorious names ot tnole Kings, 
 princes and lords, of whole generofity he had partaken. 
 
 In the whole courie of the lite of Froiffart, 1 lee no period to which this 
 alledged change can be afcribed, or which points out tins lucrative trade,, 
 called by himielt ' marchandile.' The indecency ot the exprellion will not 
 fuffer us to uppoie it could be his cure or Lettmes, although he has laid, in 
 another part, that the rectory was of connuerabie value. Could it De tiie
 
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 profeffion of a lawyer, or that of his father, who was, as we have before 
 Hated, a painter of heraldry. A fingular meaning of the word ' marchandife' 
 in Commines may perhaps give us a plaufible explanation. 
 
 Commines, born in the fame country, and not very tar from the time of 
 Froiffart, employs this word to fignify a negotiation of afeirs between 
 princes. The bufinefs of a negociator, or rather a man of intrigue, who 
 feeks, without any apparent chara6ler, to penetrate the fecrets of courts, 
 would perhaps be that which Fronfart repents having followed. The 
 details into which we have entered refpe^ling his various travels, the long 
 refidence which he has often made, in critical tunes, with feveral princes, 
 and the talent which he poffefled of infinuatmg huulelf into their good 
 graces, feem to me to warrant this conjecture. 
 
 Extract from a Manuscript taken from the Archives of the Chapter of Saint' 
 Mojiegunda at Chimay, in ivhich are found the Obituaries and pious 
 Foundations belonging to tlUs Cluipter, and other Antiquities, — Folio ^9- 
 and 40. 
 
 ' The obituary of fir John Froiffart, born at Valenciennes, canon and 
 treafurcr of the aforeiaid church, who flourilhed in ISS*, may have place 
 here, according to his quality, as having been domeftic chaplain to the 
 renowned Guy de Chatillon, count deSoiflbns and de Blois, lord of Avenes, 
 Chimay and Beaumont, &c. who has alio been a very celebrated hiltorian 
 of his time, and has written the wars and chronicles of the mod remarkable 
 events from the year 1335 until the year 1400, according to his own 
 declaration in divers parts of his hiftory, and more efpecially in the 51ft 
 chapter of his fourth book, and as we find it reprelented in the eulogium. 
 written in his praiie, in the following words. 
 
 * Cognita Romanas vix efl[et gloria gentis, 
 Pluribus hunc Icriptis ni decoraflet honos. 
 Tanti nempe refert totum fcripfille per orbem^. 
 Quaelibet et do(5tos fec'la tulilTe viros.
 
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 Commemorent alios alii, fuper aethera tollam 
 Froiflardum, hitoriae per fua fec'la ducem ; 
 
 Scripfit enim hiltoriam mage lexaginta per annos^ 
 Totius mundi, quas memoranda notat, 
 
 Scripfit et Anglorum reginas gefta Phiiippae, 
 Qui, Guilielme, tuo tutia jun6ta toro.* 
 
 HONORARIUM. 
 
 Gallomm fublimis honos et fama tuorum. 
 Hie, Froiffarde, jaces, fi modo forte jaces. 
 
 Hiftoris vivus ftuduifti reddere vitam, 
 Defundto vitam reddet at ilia tibi. 
 
 Joannes Froissardus, Canonicus et Thcfaurarius Ecclefiae Collegiatae 
 San6ta£ Monegundis Simaci, vetuftilfimo ferme totius Belgii oppido. 
 
 Proxima dum propriis florebit Francia fcriptis, 
 Fania * dum ramos, Blancaque -f-, fundit aquas, 
 
 Urbis ut hujus honos, templi fic fama vigebis 
 Teque ducem hiftoriae Gallia tota colet, 
 
 Belgica tota colet, Cymeaque vallis amabit 
 Dum rapidus proprios Scaldis obibit agros. 
 
 * The Faignc de Chimay, a fmall foreft dependant on it. 
 t La Blanche £au, a river which runs by Chimay.
 
 AN 
 
 ESSAY 
 
 OK THE 
 
 WORKS OF FHOISSARTe 
 
 H E life of Froiflart has been the fubje6t of the preceding pages. I fhalL 
 now give the hiftory of his works, as well printed as manulcript, in verfe 
 and in profe, and I will, as faithfully as I am able, detail their contents. 
 It may, perhaps, be thought 1 have been too minute ; but I feel mylelf to 
 owe a particular attention to an hiftorian who alone is worth more than a 
 multitude of others, by the importance of the lubjedts he inveftigates, and 
 the long period of time his hiftory contains. I have, befidcs, obfervcd that 
 the author has unfolded, in the courfc of his work, many fa6ts which lerve 
 to clear up feveral preceding ones ; and for want of this information it has 
 often happened that I have been fl:opped in my reading, and have not 
 profited fo much by it as I otherwife Ihould have done : it is this which has . 
 made me fenfible of the want thofe who read FroilTart would experience of. 
 fuch an explanation. To fmooth all difficulties, and to lay down luch rules 
 as may ferve for guides to readers, I have attempted to do that, which I 
 fliould have been glad to have found done when I began to read this author, 
 for I do not fimp'y propofe to give an idea of our hiftorian, fuch as to fatisfy 
 curiofity alone ; my obje6l is that thefe memoirs Ihould lerve as an iutroduclion »
 
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 to thofe who maybe induced to read him, and that theyfliould render hlm^ 
 as much as circumflances will admit, more eafy, more interefting, and more 
 inftru6tive. 
 
 I. GENFRAL PLAN OF HIS HISTORY. 
 
 The hiftory which Froiflart has left us extends from 1326 to 1400, It 
 is not confined to the events which were paffing in France during this long 
 period, but comprehends, with almoft as much detail, every confiderable 
 affair which happened in England, Scotland, Ireland and Flanders. It 
 includes alfo a number of particulars relative to the affairs of the popes of 
 Rome and of Avignon, — of Spain, Germany, Italy, — fometimes even of 
 Pruffia, Hungary, Turkey, Africa, and other countries, — in ihort, of almoft 
 the whole known world. But this immenle multitude of fa6ls, fo different 
 from each other, the chronological order of which is not very clearly made 
 out, frequently prelents to the reader only a confufed mixture of events 
 taking place at different times, and in different places, of which he cannot 
 form any diftin6l idea, nor can his memory unite lb many fcattered obje6ts, 
 which have a neceffary conne6lion among each other. 
 
 There will be found at the end of this effay an abridgement of the 
 principal fa6ts related in the courfe of the hiftory * ; and in order to remedy, 
 at leaft in part, the diforder which prevails in placing thefe events, I will 
 difpofe of each in the clafs to which it belongs, as well as point out the 
 chapters which it will be prc^per to read, to follow the train of caufes of a 
 fimilar nature, as well as the hiftory of the fame country, or the fame 
 nation. It will be impoffible for me to go into a very minute detail. To 
 leave nothing to be w ilhed for, it would be right to make references to every 
 article of all the preceding paffages relative to it, and of all thofe which 
 follow, but this can only be executed as notes to the original itfelf, and 
 
 * Neither this nor his poems are continued in the Memoirs de I'Academie, by M. de Saint 
 "Palaye ; but a criticifm on his poetry will be added from an anonymous author in tlie Memoirs de 
 I'Academie, vol. xiv.
 
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 would require all the attention of an editor who (hould intcrcfl; himfclf for 
 the advantage of his readers. 
 
 II. A MORE DETAILED PLAN OF FROISSART's HISTORY. 
 
 The hlflory of Froiflart is divided into four books or volumes, as well 
 in the manufcripts as in all the printed editions. 
 
 The firft begins with the coronation of Edward III. king of England, 
 in 1326^ and with the accefTion of Philip de Valois to the crown of France 
 in 13^8, and clofes with the year 1379 inclufively. 
 
 Froiflart begins his fecond volume with the three laft years of the 
 preceding volume, and with more detail, having gained fuller information 
 than when he firfl: wrote it. He continues it until the peace of Ghent with 
 the duke of Burgundy, the treaty for which is in the laft chapter but one 
 of this volume, dated the ISth December, 1385. 
 
 The third volume goes back as far as the year 1382 Inclufively, reciting 
 feveral events which had been mentioned in the fecond from the 93d chapter 
 to the end. The events of thcfe four laft years, which had been already 
 related, are fo much expanded in the third volume that they occupy the 
 twenty-nine firft chapters. The reft is employed in the hiftory of the 
 following years to 1389, ending with the truce concluded for three years 
 between France and England, and with the preparations which were making 
 for the entry of queen Ifabella of Bavaria into Paris, of which the author 
 promifes to fpeak more at large. 
 
 The fourth volume begins with a recital of all the feafts and pageantries 
 appointed for this entry, and ends with the dethroning and death of 
 Richard II. king of England, in 1400, and with the cle6lion, in the fame 
 year, of Robert emperor of Germany. Thefe events terminate the two laft 
 chapters of the whole work. 
 
 This manner of dividing the hiftory of FroilTart is the fame in all the 
 manufcripts and printed editions ; but thefe divifions do not begin or end 
 at the fame place in all the copies. 1 will give an account of thefe variations, 
 
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 which, in truth, are nof very confiderable, when I treat of the different printed 
 copies and manufcripts of FroilTart that have pafled through my hands. 
 
 III. DIVISION OF THE FOUR VOLUMES OF FROISSART INTO CHAPTERS, ANIi- 
 OF THE FIRST VOLUME INTO SEVERAL PARTS. 
 
 The four vokimes of the hiftory of Froiffart are fubdivided into a greaf 
 number of chapters, which are differently placed according to different 
 manufcripts and printed copies ; but befide thefe divifions, in a great many 
 manufcripts, there is one which is particular to the firfl: volume. Some 
 have four books, or parts, others fix, and fome eight. I will fpeak more 
 fully of this matter when I come to mention the manufcripts of Froiffart. 
 
 It is in one of thefe four, fix or eight divifions of the firfl volume that 
 we mufl feck for the termination of that part of his hiflory which Froiffart 
 carried to England, and prefented to queen Philippa of Hainault. It 
 neceffarily precedes thefe books, or parts, in which the death of this queen, 
 in 1369, is related : it even precedes, if I do not miftake, every thing prior 
 to 1 367, when he was appointed clerk of the clofet to the queen of England ; 
 for, I believe,it was the hiflory which he prefented to her that made him known, 
 and gained him the office he held in the houfchold of that princefs. 
 
 I doubt not but that it was pofterior to the recital of the battle of 
 Poitiers in 1356, fince it was at that epoch he began to write. We muft 
 not fcek for it either before or after the years 1357, 1358, 1359 or 1360: 
 1 would rather fix on the year 1360; for in that year the treaty of Bretigny 
 was concluded, which ga\e peace to France and England. This period 
 agrees with the time our author appears to have gone to England. The 
 circumftance of the peace naturally interrupted the progrefs of a hiftory 
 which had apparently no other obje6t than to treat of deeds of arms. 
 
 The fecond and third volumes are terminated at fimilar periods; one at 
 the peace between the duke of Burgundy with Ghent in 1385, and the other 
 between the French and Engliih in 1387. 
 
 Fro'ffart dilcontinucd writing in 139;^! ; and during the following years 
 which were pafled in a lucctffion of truces betv. eeu i' ranee and England,
 
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 he took advantage of going to England, where he had not been for 
 twenty-feven years. 
 
 IV. DID FROISSART MAKE THESE DIVISIONS? 
 
 It may be alked, if Froififart himfelf divided his hiftory in the manner 
 we have related ? I do not doubt but he was the author of the divifion 
 into four volumes ; for, befides that this divifion is obferved in all the 
 manufcripts, even thofe of his own time, he occafionally cites fa6ls in 
 fome of thefe volumes which had been related in a former, and makes ufe 
 of the following expreffions : ' as it is mentioned in another hiftory,' or 
 * as you have before heard related in the preceding book of this renowned 
 excellent hiftory.' 
 
 But as for the fub-divlfions of the firft volume into four, fix or eight 
 books, they are not to be found in the moft ancient manufcripts : befides, 
 they are not uniformly the fame in thofe wherein they occur : 1 therefore 
 do not hefitate to attribute them to the copyifts, who have taken this licence 
 on themfelves. 
 
 With regard to the chapters of each volume, and the titles of thef© 
 chapters, they are only to be met with in the printed copies; in the 
 manufcripts of that time, and fubfequent to it, they are different, according 
 to the various manufcripts or printed copies ; and I lee no probability that 
 Froiflart was the author of them. One fingle paflage may create a difficulty 
 on this fubje6l : it is in the firft volume, on an occafion where the hiltoriaa 
 refers you to the preceding chapter; but this paflage is evidently an 
 interpolation. Notwithftanding it is in the three black-letter editions, and 
 in thofe of Denys Sauvage, it is not to be found in any of the manufcripts 
 which I have fcen, with the exception of a fingle one in the national library, 
 number 83'il, which is of the date of the latter end of the fifteenth century, 
 and one of the leaft authentic copies we have.
 
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 V. THE TIME WHICH FROISSART EMPLOYED IN" THE COMPOSITION OF HIS 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 The principal of thefe divifions, that which divides the hiftory of 
 FroifTart into four volumes, fervts to mark as many different epochs, at 
 which he flopped in the courfe of his work; whether from want of 
 materials, having carried his narration to the time of his writing, — or 
 whether he wiflied to take fome repoJe himlelf, and allow the fame to his 
 readers. But thefe are not the only places where FroilTart has fufpended 
 the courfe of his hiftory : many have been pointed out, — and I will 
 endeavour to fix a date to them, as well as to others, as far as my abilities 
 and information extend. 
 
 Before entering on this examination, I fliall explain the manner in 
 which I underftand Froiflart difcontinucd to write his hiftory. From all 
 I have faid of his habits, he is feen continually occupied with this object : 
 more than forty years of his life, reckoning from the time he was twenty, 
 were paftcd in this purfuit ; but in fuch a long period, there is one part of 
 jt which more dire6lly belongs to the compofition of this work, — I mean 
 that, when, returning from his travels and laborious inquiries, he coUetfled. 
 his materials, arranged them, and formed a conne6led hiftory, fuch as we 
 have it at this day. As he wrote it at different periods, 1 ihall attempt to 
 aflign to each part its fuitable time ; to fix when it was begun and fiiulhed, 
 how many years he employed upon it, and the intervals during which he 
 ceafed to write: I think all thefe details neceftary. Froiffart travelled over 
 large tra6fs of country, and made a long refidence in fevcral places: he 
 was attached, at dirtcient t^mes, to courts whofe intereft were in oppoikioni 
 he lived with a great number of princes and lords ot contrary p.irties. It 
 would have been difficult not to have been biaifed by prejudices, and not 
 to have been influenced by affection for fome and hatred to others : it was 
 unlikely that he iLould always have fteered clear of the lilutions of partiahty, 
 for his candour alone wouid have lerved to render hhii more lufLepti[>le of. 
 them. If the circumftances be recollected of our hutonan's life, winch
 
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 fiave been related in the preceding pages, and are connected with thofa 
 times in which he laboured at the compofition of different parts of his 
 hiftory, not only the nature of the information he might be in a fituation 
 to gather will be manifeft, as well relative to places as to the perfons he 
 had fcen ; but thofc perfons to whom he may be fuppofed to have leaned 
 will be pointed out. Thefe grounds being once ellablilhed will be of very 
 great afTiftance in eiiabling us to appretiate more juftly the different degrees 
 of credit he may deferve, as an authority, according to the various matters 
 he treats of, and the times in which he fpeaks of them. Without its being 
 neceflary for me to explain myfelf more at length on this I'ubjecl, every 
 reader may apply this rule as he Ihall advance in the reading of Fioilfart : 
 it will ferve him as a guide at every ftep he takes ; it will guard him from 
 error or fedu6lion ; whether the hifforian Ihould have been ill-informed, 
 or fhould have wifhed to impol'e on his readers, flippofing it true that he 
 were capable of fo doing. 
 
 The firft volume of Froillart comprehends, as I have faid before, the 
 hiftory from 1326 to l'il9. This period includes the time of his journey 
 to England : we may readily fuppofe he had difcontinued the work, — for 
 he confidered it then as finiflied to that part, fince he fays he carried it to 
 England, where he prefented it to the queen. It ends, as I have already 
 faid, about the year 1360; and we have feen that it was completed in 1361, 
 and that he had only begun it about the year 1357 : it is therefore evident, 
 that Froillart fcarcely employed more than three or four years in the 
 compofition of this part of his work, — which neverthelels appears to me 
 one of thofe with which he has taken the moft pains, 
 
 A fort of connexion which I find between feveral chapters of the 
 remainder of this farft volume, of which the firfl announces others at a 
 great diftance, convinces me that this remainder has been compofed 
 off-hand, and without interruption; and that, confequently, the author 
 only began to write it towards the year 1379, fince he doles it with the 
 account of the events of this year. In truth, 1 believe that, during the 
 time he paffed in the lervice of queen Philippa from 1361 to 1369, he was 
 more occupied in writing, by her orders, poems on gallantry and love than 
 in labouring at his hittory ; and that, although in liis cUlierent travels, feveral.
 
 so 
 
 of which were after the death of this princefs, he was anxious to gain every 
 information of the hiftory of his own time, he had not, in the midft of an 
 agitated life, either fufficient leiiure or a mind enough dh'engaged from the 
 anxict-es or plealures of the world to write it. He employed three or four 
 years in compofing the lafl: half of his firft volume ; for wc (liall fee that 
 the following volume, which he did not immediately begin upon, was 
 written from 1385 to 1388. 
 
 Norvvithftanding FroifTart may have written the firft volume at two 
 different times, it feems that the preface, which is at the beginning, was 
 not done until the whole was finilhed ; for the author fpeaks in it of his 
 travels into Scotland, whither he did not go until after he had prefented 
 the firft half of this volume to the queen of England. 
 
 No material interruption is met with in the courfe of the fecond volume. 
 The author employs the twenty-feven firft chapters in recapitulating the 
 events of the three laft years of the preceding volume, which had been too 
 fuccindlly related. He adds new fa6ts, or new circumftances, to thofe he 
 had before told, — or rectifies the narration, from having been better informed 
 afterwards; and it is from this I draw my proof, that there was fome 
 interval between the compofition of the firft volume and the other which 
 followed. 
 
 After thefe twenty-feven firft chapters he refumes the thread of his 
 hiftory, which he follows until the peace the men of Ghent obtamed 
 from the duke of Burgundy, and of which he reports the original treaty, 
 dated the 18th December, 1385. 
 
 It is towards the year 1385, or 138<9, that FroifTart began to write his 
 fecond volume: it was finilhed in 1388. This fame year he vifited the 
 count de Foix ; and in the account he gives of his travels he fays, that 
 different perfons reminded him of events which he had related in his 
 hiftory ; and thefe events are told in the fecond volume, which, according 
 to all appearances, was immediately written. 
 
 There is an interval of upwards of twelve years between the compofition 
 of this volume and the enfuing one, for the author only began the third in 
 i590. He then wrote it by command, and at the expenfe ot the count de 
 Blois : this he expreflly fays in the beginning of the 97th chapter. There
 
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 is nothing to prevent us from believing that the preceding volume had beea 
 compofed by the orders of the fame nobleman, fmce I have fhewn in the 
 memoirs of his life, that Froiflart appeared to have been attached to his 
 fervice from the year 1385. 
 
 The third volume, which returns to thofe events tliat had happened 
 fmce the year 1382, and which gives a fuller account of them, had been, 
 as I have juft faid, begun upon in 1390, and was already finilhed in J 3.92. 
 The author makes this to be iinderftood in tiiat part where he fpeaks of the 
 conventions entered into by the duke of Brittany with the king of France. 
 He favs, that at the time he was finilhing this book, the duke had faithfully 
 obfcrved them, and had not done any thing worthy of being noticed. We 
 fhall hereafter witnefs the difobediencc of this duke in 13^2, — who, havino- 
 received Peter de Craon at his palace, at the time when he was a flate-criminal, 
 refufed to obey the orders Charles VI. fent him to give him up. This whole 
 volume feems to me to have been compofed without interruption : at leafl, 
 there is a material connexion between feveral chapters at a great diftance- 
 from each other. 
 
 The interval there is between the third and fourth volumes feems to 
 have been caufed more to give repofe to the reader than to the hiflorian ; 
 for Froiffart, in ending the third, announces the events which are to be the 
 materials of the fourth volume. I believe the hiftorian, immediately on 
 completing the third, wrote the fifty firll chapters of the fourth volume, 
 which cl('fe with the events of 1392. 
 
 A great number of manufcripts, and black-letter editions, which begin 
 the fourth volume after thefe fifty chapters, form a very natural prejudice 
 in favour of this opinion : befides, from the year 1 392, when they end, two 
 
 years pafled in continual negotiations between the French and Englilh, 
 
 during which, feveral truces, but of fliort duration, were made : they, 
 however, ended at lad in a peace, or truce, for four years. I do not doubt- 
 but that Froiflart then interrupted his writing, — fince that was the time 
 when he performed his journey into England, where he refided three months. 
 I believe this interval was confiderable, becaufe the remainder of the fourth 
 volume, which feems to me to have been written without intermifllon, was. 
 compofed, if 1 miftake not, feveral years after this journey ; that is to fay,.
 
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 towards the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century. 
 •We find in it thole events which belong to the years 1 399 and 1 4-00, but 
 nothing that m<iv lead us to form any judgment how long a time the author 
 employed on th s lafl part. 
 
 It is necefTarv to make one general obfcrvation on the fubji-6t of thefe 
 intervals, which I have juft been fpeaking of, and of which I have attempted 
 to determine the length. When our hiftorian finillied one of the parts of 
 the hiftory, he brought it down to the time of his writmg ; and towards the 
 end, he related the events as they were pafling ; whence it happens, as it 
 feems to me, that there is much confufion, and not unfrequently omiffions 
 and miftakes, which he has been obliged to corred, or alter, in the following 
 parts. It is probably thefe different fupplements which have made him take 
 in many places the title not only of ' A6lor,' that is to fjy, Author, but in 
 addition to it, that of ' Augmentator,' of this hiftory, — and made him fay, 
 in other parts of it, ' to have undertaken, contmued and augmented.' 
 
 'VI. THE INQUIRIES FROISSART MADE TO COMPOSE HIS HISTORY, AND THE 
 
 PAINS HE TOOK ON THIS SUBJECT. 
 
 It has been fhewn with how much pain and fatigue FroiiTart had vifited 
 
 Teveral of the courts in Europe. Admitted w ithin the palaces of the great 
 
 lords, he infinuated himfelf into their confidence to luch a degree that they 
 
 not only related to him many particulars ot their own lives, and of thofe 
 
 events which they had a fliare in, or had been e>e-witnefles of ; but they 
 
 diicovered to him fometinies the lecret motives of the relolunons which had 
 
 been entered into in the councils of the cabinet upon the moft important 
 
 aflairs ; and he never failed to take advantage of his converfations wirh thofe 
 
 of whofe intimacy he boafted, and whom he could interrogate with greater 
 
 freedom. 
 
 It feems that he derived the knowledge of many details relating to 
 ;tranfa6lions in the court of France from the lervants even of the king 
 Jiimlelf, and from thofe who were near his perlon.
 
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 If, when at courts, or in the other places he vifited, he met with any 
 from whom he thought he could gain information, more efpecially c^iptains 
 or heralds, who in thofe times were the moft ufual agents in negotiations 
 and in affairs of importance, — he began a converfation with them, and 
 infenfibly led them to fpeak of thofe parts of hiftory of which they ought 
 to be befl: informed, whether in regard to tlie country w here they were, or 
 to other circumftances of their lives ; and he never quitted them until he 
 had induced them to tell all they knew, the whole of which he immediately 
 fet down in writing. 
 
 Not content with colle6ling all thefe valuable authorities, and comparing 
 very carefully, as he himfelf informs us, the intelligence of perfons who had 
 been -attached to different parties, he fought for proofs flill lefs liable to 
 fufpicion: he confulted the treaties which princes had entered into with 
 ■each other, their challenges or declarations of war, the letters they wrotQ, 
 and other papers of this nature. He exprefHy fays, that he had feen many 
 which he does not mention, particularly thofe in the chancery of the king 
 of England : fome of them are tranfcribed entire in the courfe of his hifton'. 
 Jt appears that he did not infert every thing he found as chance offered, 
 but that he examined the articles critically, and laid afide all thofe whofe 
 authenticity did not feem to him fully proved. 
 
 VII. WHAT END FROISSART PROPOSED IN WRITING HIS HISTORY, AND 
 WHAT RULES HE LAID DOWN TO HIMSELF IN ITS COMPOSITION. 
 
 It may eafily be judged, from the detail of the pains wliich Froillart 
 himfelf tells us he took, that he was acquainted with the rules of found 
 criticifm, and the true method which ought to be followed in writing 
 hiflory. He likewife informs us, that he had no intention of making a 
 dry chronicle, wherein fa6ls are fimply related with their dates, and in the 
 order of their occurrence, — but that he was anxious to write what may be 
 called in truth hiftory, in which the events are prefentcd, with all the 
 circumftances attendant on them. The details which lay open the fecret 
 fprings by which mankind a£i are precifely thofe which unveil the character
 
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 i- 
 
 and the very heart of the perfonages which hiftory places on the ftage"; and 
 this was one of the eflential parts ot the defign which Froiffart had propofed 
 to himfelf in writing this hiftorical work. 
 
 Many pafTages throughout the following pages indicate that he had a 
 natural inclination for it, and that he found infinite pleafure in writing it ; 
 but another object, which does him much more honour, greatly ftrengthened 
 this natural tafle : he propofed to preferve, for future ages, the memory of 
 thofe men who had made themfelves renowned by their courage or by their 
 virtues, — to give to their a6lions a value which nothing can efface nor 
 alter, — and, by amufmg ufefully his readers, to give birth to, or augment 
 in their hearts, the love of glory, by the moft brilliant examples. 
 
 This defire, which always animated him in his various inquiries, 
 fupported him during forty years of labour, in which he neither fpared 
 attention nor time, and for which he feared not expending very confiderable 
 fums of money. In reality, nothing can be more proper than the fpe6lacle 
 which FroilTart places continually before the eves of his readers, to infpire 
 them with a love for war; that induftrious vigilance, always on its guard 
 againft furprifes, inceffantly a6live to furprife others ; that adlivity, which 
 counts as nothing pains and fatigue; that contempt of death, which, 
 elevates the mind above the fear of danger; in (hort, that noble ambition 
 which excites to entcrprifes of the greatcft peril. 
 
 He paffes in review all the heroes who, during almofl a whole century, 
 were produced by two warlike nations ; one of which was encouraged by 
 fuccefles as flattering as they were uninterrupted, — and the other, irritated 
 by its misfortunes, was making exertions to revenge, at any price, its own 
 honour and that of its king. In fo great a number of a«5lions, of which 
 many were eminently glorious to each party, it was not poflible but that: 
 fome were to be found of a quite different fort. Froiffart does not take lefs 
 pains to paint thefe laff, in order to raife as much horror at vice as he wifhed 
 to infpire love for virtue ; but if all thele pi6lures had been the fruits of his 
 own imagination, they would not have been felt as much as he wilhed them. 
 In order that their imprcffion on the heart and mind ihould be perfecti-y lure 
 and ftrong, it was ncceffary that their bafis Ihould be founded on the pureft. 
 truth, difengaged from all flattery, partiality or intereft.
 
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 It Is this truth which our hiftorian piques himfclf on having fought after 
 with the greateft care. However, all 1 have jufl: faid is taken from his own 
 words, in a number of pafTages in his hiftory ; and it is on this alone that 
 I depend. It remains to be fecn if he have as faithfully obferved this law 
 which he impofes on himfelf as he has promifed. But before 1 enter into 
 an examination of this queftion, I fliall make fome general obfcrvations on 
 his chronology : I fhall then fpeak of the firft thirty years of his hiftory, 
 %vhich are, properly fpeaking, but an introduaion to the forty, and fome 
 years which follow them, to the end of the fourteenth century. 
 
 VIII. THE CHRONOLOGY OF FROISSART 
 
 I OBSERVE in the chronology of Froiflart two material defects, which 
 are the fource of all the diforder found in it. The firft, that when he pafTes 
 from the hiftory of one country to that of another, he makes the hiftory 
 which he begins go back to a period anterior to what he has juft fpoken of, 
 %vithout having taken the precaution to inform his readers of it. The fecond, 
 which is not lefs confiderable, is, that he has not fettled in his own mind the 
 manner of counting the years : he makes them fometimes begin the ift of 
 January, — at other times at Eafter, and fometimes even at Palm Sunday. 
 
 Froiflart does not confine himfelf to date by years the events he relates : 
 months, days, hours of the day, are often exprefled in his different recitals. 
 I remark, with regard to the days, that he only begins them when night is 
 completely gone, and day-break begins to appear. With regard to the hours of 
 the day, he makes a divifion, of which fome examples, but in a fmall number, 
 are feen in our ancient authors, and to which he very particularly attaches 
 himfelf. He divides them according to the canonical hours oi prone, tierce, 
 none and vepres; becaufe, perhaps, he was in the ecclefiaftical profeffion 
 himfelf. I oblerve, that he has not any where made ufe of the word fexte : 
 what he means by prime was the morning, the firft hour of the day, or the 
 hour which followed next after day-break. Tierce feems to me to mark the 
 intermediate time between the morning and mid-day, which he exprelles 
 either by the word ' mid-day' or by that of 7ione. Afterwards comes veprc, 
 or la vcprcc : it was, as the word points out, the end of the day : ai^"ter wiiich
 
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 was reckoned midnight. Sometimes he adds to thefe words, prime, tkrcCy 
 Tione, vc^pres, the epithet of bqfe, to mark that the time of thefe hours was- 
 near clofing; and fometimes the word haute, which, in fome inftanceSj 
 appears to have the fame fignification, and in others quite the contrary. 
 He ufes this mode of fpeech d Vaiibe axvajit, to fay that the dawn of day 
 has but juft begun to fhew itfelf ; aufoleil refconfant, to cxprefs the fetting 
 fun ; a la rekvce, for the time which follows the hour of mid-day ; and 
 a la rcmontce, which feems to me fynonymous to la v^pree, for the evenings 
 the time at which the day approaches to its end. 
 
 IX. OF THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS WHICH FROISSART HAS TREATED OF AT 
 THE BEGINNING OF HIS HISTORY, AFTER JOHN LE BEL ; THAT IS TO: 
 SAY, FROM 1326 TO 1356, 
 
 The firft thirty years of the hiftory of Froiflart are properly but a 
 prehminary, ferving to give the reader fome information relative to the 
 wars of which he was afterwards to render an account* He defcribes the 
 ftate of France and of England, and ihews the caufe of the quarrel betvveerr 
 the two crowns, which was the origin of thole bloody wars they carried on 
 againft each other. Froiflart cannot be reckoned a contemporary writer of 
 thefe firft thirty years: he was not then born,or,if he were,hewas in his infancy, 
 or of fuch an age that he could not make any great ufe of his reafon. He 
 therefore fcarcely ever mentions thefe thirty years, as an author who has feen 
 what he relates; and, without doubt, it mull: be to this period alone that can 
 be referred what he fays in the commenceaient of his hiftory, that he wrote 
 after another who had lived before : it is, as he tells us, ' the true chronicle 
 of John le Bel, canon of St Lambert, of Liege.' Tliefe chroaicles have 
 not been handed down to us ; and I cannot difcover any thing more, either 
 concerning the work or its author, but what Froifliirt tells us. He fpeaks 
 of him as of one who no longer exilted ; but he boafts his exa6tnefs, and 
 the pains he took in comparing his chronicles, and the confiderabie expeni'es 
 he was at on this lubject. He reprefents him as the favourite and contiJant 
 of John oi Hainault, m company with whom he might have witnc.fed levcral 
 great events, which, fays he, Ihall in the end be related; for tae earl, wno
 
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 was nearly related to feveral kings, had adled a principal part in many of 
 thefe tranfaftions. 
 
 Froiflart, in thefe thirty years, which are anterior to the battle o^ 
 Poitiers, in 1356, enters more into the detail of the hiftory of the Englifli 
 than of the French, — perhaps from having followed, in this refpedt, hiS' 
 orig'nal author, who had taken a much greater intereft in the hiftory of 
 England from its connexions with the count de Hainault, This certainly 
 is the caufe whythofe manufcripts, which onlycontam the firft years of the 
 chronicle of Froiflart, are called Chronicles of England : it alio has given 
 rife to the reproach which has been made againft him of being the partifan 
 of England, and difaffedted towards France, an accufation which I fliall 
 examine at the end of this criticifm. 
 
 I do not think Froiflart could have chofen a better guide for the hiftory 
 of the thirty years than the author he fays he followed. To judge of the- 
 information which this hiftorian might have drawn from his intimacy with 
 John of Hainault, we muft recolle6t the fituation of this earl at the time in 
 queftion. The queen of England, Ifabella of France, had fled from 
 England with the young prince of Wales, her fon, afterwards Edward IlL 
 to free herfelf from the perfecutions of the Spencers, and the other 
 favourites of her hufband, Edward IL. 
 
 Charles le Bel, king of France, brother to this queen, was forced to 
 order her to quit his kingdom, after he had afforded her an afylum for 
 fome time. The court of the count de Hainault, of whom we are. 
 fpeaking, was the only refuge for the mother and fon : not only was this 
 open to them, but they raifed there powerful fuccours to carry with them 
 to Englandj and to draw down vengeance on their enemies. 
 
 The young prince there met with a virtuous and amiable princefs (flie 
 was one of the daughters of the count), who felt for him thofe firft 
 fentiments of a- natural inclination which feem to foretel the moft durable 
 attachments: he conceived a ftrong affe6i:ion for her, made her his bride, 
 and afterwards flie was placed with him on the throne of England. Sho 
 is the perlbn to whom Froiflart prefented his hiftory. 
 
 FroilTart wrote then after an author who was himfelf perfonally 
 acquainted with all thefe fatls, and from the perlons the beft informed, — 
 for it was their own hiftory. The writer, who appears to have been
 
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 brought up at the court of the count de Halnault, was hving in the greatefl: 
 familiarity with thofe in whofc recolle6lion all the circumftances of this 
 court, which were then recent, would be frelh, and the fails perfe£tly 
 well known; and he wrote the hiftory of it for queen Fhiiippa, of Hainault, 
 who had a6led fo principal a part. Never was there an hillonan who had 
 more undeniable witneffes of the truth of what he relates ; never was there 
 one in whom greater confidence could be placed than in FroilTart, as to 
 -this part of his hiftory. You will, however, recoUert the faults which 
 M. Lancelot has corredled in feveral articles which concern the hiftory of 
 England at this period. His criticilm is founded on the original a6ts 
 -which he has had in his hands, and his authority is unquelHonable. 
 I urge this example, becaufe it feems to me more proper than any other to 
 make a truth, important to our hiftory, more ftrongly felt; a truth which 
 has been fo much recommended by authors the moft thoroughly converlant 
 with this ftudy ; I mean the abfolute neceflity of accompanying the perulal 
 of hiftory with a comparifon of the original acts of the times. 
 
 Some of them throw light upon parts which are defective, while others 
 add to the teftimonies of hiftory a degree of authenticity of which they have 
 but too much need ; and it is from this comparifon that the certainty of 
 thefe truths refults, as far as in iheir nature they are fufceptible of proof. 
 I ihall referve what I may have to fay of thofe forty years for another 
 opportunity, fince Froiflart then wrote as a contemporary hiftorian, and as 
 an eye-witnefs, I may fay, of every thing which was then paifmg in the 
 world. Byt I fliall firft examine the difterent judgments which have been 
 pafled on this hiftorian, and particularly the almoft univerfal reproach 
 which has been made him, of being a violent partifan of the Engliih and 
 a declared enemy to the French. I ihall fpeak of his partiality in other 
 refpe6ts, — his credulity in certain articles, his exadtnefs in others, and his 
 mode of writing : 1 will then enumerate the detail of the editions which we 
 have of his hiftory, and dHi:ufs the merits and faults of each of them : I 
 fhall, more efpecially, examine whether Sauvage has more corrupted and 
 falfified the text, in his edition, than he has enlightened it. 
 
 In fhort, I fhall give a fummary account of upwards of forty 
 manulcript volumes, in folio, of this chronicle, which I have collated with 
 ^grcat attention.
 
 CRITICISM 
 
 Ot^ THE 
 
 HISTORY OF FROISSART. 
 
 A HAVE laid before you the views with which FroifTart wrote his 
 Chronicles, the care he took to be informed of all the events which were 
 to make parts of them, and the rules he had impofed on himfelf in writing 
 them. I (hall at prcfent examine if he hc've been exa6t in obferving thefe 
 rules ; what are the defe6ls and advantages of his hiftory ; what is the form 
 and ftyle of it. Thence I fhall pafs to the manufcripts and editions we 
 have of it, and to the abridgements and different tranflations which have 
 been publilhed. 
 
 Froiffart is accufed of partiality ; and this accufation is become fo 
 general that it feems to have acquired the charadler of notoriety, whofe 
 privilc ge is to fuperfede proofs. Froiffart is faid to have fold his pen to 
 the Er.glilh, who paid him a confid arable penfion ; and, by a neceffary 
 confequence of his affe(5lion for them, he is unfavourable to the French. 
 
 Eodin, Pafquier, Brantome, Sorel, la Popliniere, le Laboureur, decide 
 againft him in the moft pofitive terms. It feems even that his readers j 
 prejudiced by the connexions which Froiflart had with the Englifh, may 
 have fome reafon to diftruft every thing he relates to their advantage. In
 
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 truth, 'he begins by faying, that he had written his hiftory at the folicitations 
 of Robert de Namur, a near relation of queen Phihppa, and a vaflal of the 
 crown of England, which he ferved as a partifan againft France. In 
 another part he informs us, that he was of the houfehold of Edward III. 
 the mofl- cruel enemv of the French ; and that his queen, to whom he was 
 fecretary, had not only, by her liberality, enabled him to travel into various 
 parts, in order to enrich his hiltory, but that die had generoufly paid him 
 for his labours in it. 
 
 In (hort, the firfl: twenty-fix chapters of his chronicle folely concern the 
 hiftory of England, which has been the reafon why it has been called the 
 * Chronicle of England' in feveral manufcripts. Thence it has been 
 concluded, that FroifTart, from his intimate attachment to the court of 
 England, mud be a violent partifan of that nation, and the enemy of its 
 enemies. Nothing more was wanted to make accounts, the moft innocent 
 as given by any other hiftorian, appear poifonous from his pen : but in 
 order to judge if this fufpicion have any foundation, I will run over the 
 period of which he has tranfmJtted to us the hiftory, and examine 
 fucceflively the different fituations he occupied when he wrote the various 
 parts of it. Froiffart cannot be fufpe6ted of partiality during the firft 
 years of the reign of Edward III. This prince never forgot that his uncle, 
 king Charles le Bel, had given him an afylum in his kingdom; when, with 
 his mother, Ifabella of France, he had elcaped from the perfecutions of the 
 Spencers, who governed the mind of his father, Edward II. 
 
 The court of France had not any mifunderftanding with that of England 
 during the reign of Charles. I pafs over for a moment the forty years which 
 follow from 13'29, when the fucceffion to the crown of France being opened 
 by the death of Charles le Bel, the bonds which had united the kings of 
 France and England became themfelves the fource of divifions, and of the 
 moft murderous wars ; and I come to the times which fucceeded the death 
 of queen Philippa in 1369, a period when Froiffart, no longer refiding in 
 England, had attached himfelf to Winceflaus, duke of Brabant. This 
 prince, brother to the emperor Charles IV, was, in fa6t, uncle to Anne of 
 Bohemia, who was afterwards queen of England, by her marriage with 
 Richard II. ; but he was alfo in the fame degree of relationfhip to Charles V,
 
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 of France, the fon of his fiftcr, and preferving a ftriiSl neutrality between the 
 two rival crowns, he was invited to the coronations of Charles V. and of 
 Charles VI. He obtained, even in the lafl: of thcfc ceremonies, the pardon 
 of the count de St Pol, whom the king's council wifhed to put to death for 
 the crime of high treafon. 
 
 Froifiart, who informs us of this circumftance, with which he muft 
 have been well acquainted, tells us another, which clearly Ihcws, that 
 Winceflaus ever preferved the friendfliip of king Charles, as well as that of 
 his council. During the time the war was carrying on with the greatcd 
 obftinacy, he obtained a paflport for the princefs Anne of Bohemia to go 
 to England, where fhe was to marry Richard II. Charles and his uncles, 
 accompanied this favour with the mod obliging letters, adding, that they 
 only granted it out of friendfhip to him. Froilfart had not any intereft to 
 write againft France during the time he paflTed with this prince : he had, 
 lliortly afterwards, ftill lefs when he was fecretary to the count de Blois, 
 who crowned a life, completely devoted to the interells of France, with the 
 facrifice of the interefts of his own family. The moft trifling marks of ill 
 will againft France would have expofed him to lofe, not only the good 
 graces of his mafter but the fruit of his hiftorical labours, which he had 
 induced him to continue, and which he fo gcneroufly recompenfed. The 
 hiftorian, therefore, fearful of reproaches to which he might be liable for 
 being too good a Frenchman, reproaches very different from thofe which 
 have been fince made him, thinks himfelf bound to juftify, in the following 
 terms, what he relates of the inviolable attachment of the Bretons to the 
 crown of France againft the Englilh, vol. iii. chapter lxiv. year 1387^ 
 * Let no one fay I have been corrupted by the favours which the count; 
 Guy de Blois (who has made me write this hiftory) has Ihewn unto me, 
 and who has fo liberally paid me for it that I am fatisfied, becaufe he was 
 nephew to the true duke of Brittany, and fo nearly related as fon to count 
 Louis de Blois, brother-german to Charles de Blois, who, as long as he lived, 
 was duke of Brittany : no, by my troth, it is not fo, — for I will not fpeak at 
 all, unlefs it be the truth, and go ftrait forward, without praifing one more 
 than another. Befides, the gallant prince and court, who have made me 
 undertake this hiftory, had no other willi than for me to fay what is true.' 
 
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 Since FroifTait, in all thcfe times which carry us almoft to the end of his 
 chronicle, cannot be fufpefted of hatred to the French, nor of affe6tion to 
 the En2;lifh, — I return to thofe years 1 have omitted from 13'i9 to 1369, of 
 which he pafled a confiderable part in England, attached to the king and 
 queen, and living in a fort of familiarity with the young princes, their 
 children : it is in refpe6l to thefe years that the fufpicion of partiality to 
 the Englifli may be fuppofed to fubfift with the greateft force. It was 
 difficult, in a court where every thing breathed hatred to France, for him 
 to preferve that perfeft neutrality which the quality of an hiftorian demands ; 
 and not to lean towards the paffions and interefls of princes to whom he 
 owed his prefent fortune, and from whom he expe6led more confiderable 
 eftablifhments. 
 
 Reafons might be found to weaken this- prejudice in the fweet temper 
 and moderation which queen Philippa ever preferved in the midft of all 
 thefe wars : (he who calmed the fury of her hufband at the fiege of Calais, 
 and who obtained, by her interceffion, the pardon of the fix generous 
 citizens of that town whom he had condemned to death. I might add,, 
 that if FroifTart was of the houfehold of king Edward, he was alfo of the 
 houfehold of king John ; and it feems he was attached to this prince even 
 at the time when he was in England. 
 
 But, without feeking to combat thefe prejudices by others, I fliall fimply 
 confult the text of FroifTart, which muft, in this refpeft, be the rule for our. 
 judgment. After having read him with atl the attention I am capable of, 
 without having remarked one fingle trace of the partiality they reproach him 
 with, I have examined with the utmoll care fome principal points, where 
 Eaturally it ought to have been the moft apparent. 
 
 The acceffion of Philip de Valois to the crown had incenfed all England, 
 who adopted the chimerical pretenfions of Edward III. This was a delicate 
 circumllance for an hiftorian, who, living in the midft of a court and a nation 
 fo ftrongly prejudiced, was determined not to quit the line of duty. Now 
 thefe are the terms in which Froiflait relates this event, after having 
 mentioned the deaths of the kings, Louis Hutin, Philip le Long, and 
 Charles le Bel : * The twelve peers and barons of France did not give 
 ihe realm of France to their fifter, who was queen of England, becaufe
 
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 they declared and maintained, and dill maintain, that the kingdom of 
 France is fo noble, it ought not to defccnd to a female, the queen of 
 England, nor confequently to the king of England, her cldefl: fon ; for 
 they refolved that the fon cannot claim any right of fucceflTion as coming 
 from his mother, when the mother herfelf has not any right ; fo that, for 
 thefe reafons, the twelve peers and the barons of France unanimoufly 
 decreed the kingdom of France to my lord Philip, nephew to the good 
 king Phihp of France before mentioned, and took from the queen of 
 England and her fon the right of fucceeding to the laft king, Charles. 
 Thus, as it appeared to many perfons, did the kingdom of France go 
 •out of the ftrait line of fucceflion, which occafioned very great wars in 
 conlequence,' &c. 
 
 This whole paflage prefents nothing but what muft fet the courage and 
 candour of the hiftorian in the mod favourable light, fhould he even have 
 added thefe words, * it appeared to many perfons,' fmce it is not any 
 matter of doubt that the fuccelFion paffed from the ftrait line to the 
 •collateral branch. 
 
 Neverthelefs, fome malignant intention was thought to lurk beneatli, 
 and the words ' took from' having offended feveral readers, they have added 
 in the margin a fort of corre(9:ion, which I have feen in two manufcripts in 
 a hand almoft as ancient as the manufcripts themfelves. ' They never 
 •could take away what they had never been in pofleffion of, nor had any 
 right to. They never took it away, for neither the forefaid lady nor her 
 fon had even a right to it, but Froiffart fhev/s he was partial to the 
 Englilli.' 
 
 The homage which king Edward III. paid to the king of France hurt 
 ■exceedingly the delicacy of the Englifh : they had difputed for fome time, 
 and with great warmth, on the form in which it was to be done, feeking to 
 curtail it of all that was humiliating to them. As the king of France 
 firmly fupported the prerogatives of his crown, he obliged Edward to 
 acquit himfelf of this duty according to the form pra6lifed by his 
 predeceffors : an hiftorian therefore, defirous of rendering his narration 
 fubfervient to purpofes of flattery, would flightly have pafted over this 
 article, Froiflart, however, infifts upon it as much as he is able : he neither
 
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 omits the difficulties which the Englifh made, nor the authorities which 
 king Philip oppofed to them ; and he accompanies thefe details with the 
 original acts, the mofh proper to confirm them, fo that if the kings of 
 France fhould ever have occafion to verify their rights, the depofition alone 
 of Froiflart would furnifli an authentic and inconteftible title. 
 
 The Englilh accufe the French of not being very fcrupulous in 
 obferving treaties, and maintain, that fir Geoffry de Charni a6fed by the 
 fecret orders of the king of P'rance, when, in contempt of a truce which 
 had been made, he attempted to furprife Calais in 13'^-9. Rapin embraces 
 this opinion, and fupports it by the teftimony of Froiflart, whom he quotes 
 in the margin. I know not from what copy, or what manufcript, he has 
 taken his authority, — but, for my part, I read in all the printed books, and 
 in all the manufcripts, thefe words, which are quite contrary to his 
 fentiments : ' I believe that GeofFry de Charni had not fpoken of it to the 
 king of France, for the king would never have advifed him to attempt it, 
 on account of the truce.' 
 
 The Englilh again impute to Charles V. the infraction of the treaty of 
 Bretignv, which they firft broke, if we believe the French. Far from 
 finding anything in Froiflart which favours the imputations of the Enghfh, 
 I believe that if the terms in which he expreflfes himielf were ftriclly 
 examined, they would at leafi: form a prefumption againll them. I do not 
 defpair but that one day a brother academician will give us all the proofs 
 which a found eriticifm, and a mature reading of the hifl:orical monuments 
 of that age, can furnifli, on a point of hifl:ory which is of equal confcquence 
 to the nation and to trutli. 
 
 The Angular combat propofed in 1354 between the kings of France and 
 of England is (till a matter ot diipute between the hiftorians of the two 
 nations. According to the French, the challenge lent in the name of king 
 John was not accepted by Edward ; whillt the Englifli fay, their king dared 
 the king of France to battle, but that he refuted the combat. Froiifart 
 decides formally for the French. ' The king of France,' lays he, ' went 
 after him as far as St Omcr, and fent a meffage to him (the king of 
 England) by the marlhal d'Autliain, and by feveral other knights, that he 
 would fight with him, if he pleafcd, body to body, or army againll army.
 
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 on any day that he would name ; but the king of England refufed the 
 combat, and recrofled the fea to England, and the king of France returned 
 to Paris.' 
 
 To thefe examples, I could add a great number of others, wherein he 
 gives much praife, as well to the people as to the lords who fignalifed 
 themfelves by their attachment to their country; and he neither fpares thole 
 who had declared themfelves againft the French, nor thofe who had 
 abandoned them in a cowardly manner. In addition to v.^hat he fays of 
 the fidelity of the Bretons and of the counts de Blois, their legitimate 
 fovereigns, he praifes the zeal with which feveral lords in Scotland received 
 the french fleet fent in 1385 to afllft them againft the EnglilTi. The earl of 
 Douglas, to whom he appears much attached, and in whofe caftle he fpent 
 feveral days, in his travels into Scotland, fcems to be of this number. At 
 the fame time, he declaim.s againft thofe whofe bad faith and ingratitude 
 rendered this armament fruitlefs. He fpeaks in the ftrongeft terms of the 
 prefumption of the duke of Gueldres, who dared to declare war againft the 
 king of France (Charles VI.) in 1387, and of the infolence with which he 
 expreffed himfelf in his declaration of war. He applauds thejuft indignation 
 which induced this monarch to march in pcrfon to chaftife the pride of this 
 petty prince. 
 
 In iliort,' of all the nations whom he mentions in his hiftory, there are 
 but few whom he has not fometimes marked with odious epithets. 
 According to him, the Portuguefe are pafllonate and quarrelfome ; the 
 Spaniards envious, haughty and uncleanly ; the Scots perfidious and 
 ungrateful ; the Italians alTaflins and poifoners ; the Engliili vain-boafters, 
 contemptuous and cruel. There is not one trait againft the French : on 
 the contrary, this brave nation fupports itfelf, according to FroilTart, by th^ 
 vigour and ftrength of its chivalry, which was never fo totally overwhelmed 
 by its misfortunes as not in the end to find fome marvellous refources in its 
 courage. The hiftorian alfo feems to have taken a pride in having been 
 born a Frenchman, by telling us, that he owed to this title the good 
 reception which a french efquire gave him when he lodged with him at 
 . Ortez..
 
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 It is true that the king of England and his fon, the prince of Wales, 
 feem to have been, as long as they hved, the heroes of his hiftory, and that 
 in the recital of feveral battles he is more occupied with them than with the 
 king of France. But where is the Frenchman of candour who will not 
 find himfelf forced to give thefe princes the utmoft praife? Befides, does not 
 our hiftorian render juftice to the valour and intrepidity of king Philip de 
 Valois and of king John ? Nothing can furpafs the praifes he gives, as well 
 to the wifdom as to the ability of king Charles V. and, above all, that 
 glorious teftimony which he makes no difficulty to put into the mouth of 
 the king of England : ' There never was a king who armed hirafelf fo 
 little ; and there never was a king who gave me fo much to do.' 
 
 I think I have fully eftablilhed the fa6t, by the foregoing arguments, of 
 FroifTart not being that partial hiftorian he has been faid to have been : 
 Tjeverthelefs, I think it will be more fafe to read him with fome 
 circumfpe6tion ; and I repeat that we ought ever, as much as poffibie, to 
 keep fight of two obje6ls, which I have^ particularly endeavoured to point 
 out in the preceding pages : I mean to fay, on one hand, the details of his 
 life, his different attachments to divers princes and to certain lords, the 
 connexions he had, or the friendiliips he contra6ted with various perfons ; 
 on the other, the fituations in which he was placed when he wrote his 
 hiftory, what parts of it were undertaken at the folicitation of the count de 
 Namur, a partifan of the Englilli, and thofe which he compofed by the 
 command of the count de Blois, a friend to France. 
 
 For, if we be determined to perfuade ourfelves that he ought to be 
 difpofed to favour the Englifli in all he relates to the year 1369, from the 
 fame reafon he fhould lean to the French in all the enfuing years to the 
 conclufion of his chronicle. I muft not negle6l to mention that his 
 prejudices are fometimes vifible when he enters into the minuteft details, as 
 we may be convinced by the praifes he gives to the piety and other virtues 
 of the count de Foix, ftrongly contrafted by thofe a6tions of cruelty he had 
 juft before related. But an hiftorian, difengaged from all paffion, fhould 
 hold an even balance between the different parties, when to this quality he 
 ihall add, that which cannot be refiafed to Froilfart, — I mean, a continual
 
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 anxiety to be informed of every event, and of every particular that may 
 intereft his readers, he will yet be very far from perfe6lion, if with thefe 
 acquirements he do not exercife a found criticifm, which, in the multitude 
 of difcordant relations, knows how to feparate every thing that is diftant 
 from truth, or his work will otherwife be lefs an hiftory than a heap of 
 fables and popular rumours. 
 
 Notwithftanding all Froiffart tells us of the care he took to hear both 
 fides, to compare their different accounts with each other, and often with 
 the original pieces, I think he may be accufed of fome litde negligence oa 
 this head. His manner of hfe allowed him but Uttle leifure to make all 
 the refledlions and all the comparifons which fuch an examination would 
 require. In thofe countries whither his a6live curiofity carried him, other 
 attentions occupied his mind. Charged fometimes with fecret commiffions 
 he endeavoured to infmuate himfelf into the good graces of thofe princes 
 he vifited, by compofitions of gallantry, by romances, by poetry ; and the 
 love he ever had for pleafure took fuch poffeffion both of his time and his 
 heart that his mind mufl: have been often turned from the ferious meditations 
 of the cabinet, of which naturally it was not very capable. I am not afraid 
 to fay, that his manner of life is to be found in fome fort re-traced even in 
 his chronicles. We fee in them tumultuous meetings of warriors of all ao-es 
 degrees and countries, — feafts, — entertainments at inns, — converfations after 
 fupper, which lafled until a late hour, where every one was eao-er to relate 
 what he had feen or done ; after which, the travelling hiftorian, before he 
 went to bed, haftened to put on paper every thing his memory could 
 recollect. We obferve in them the hifl:ory of events which happened durino- 
 the courfe of almofl: a century, in all the provinces of the kingdom, and of 
 all the people in Europe, related without order. In a fmall number of 
 chapters we frequently meet with feveral different hiftories, begun, 
 interrupted, recommenced, and again broken off; and in this confufion the 
 fame things repeated, fometimes in order to be eorrefted, Ibmetimes to be 
 contradidled or denied, or m other cafes to be augmented. 
 
 The hiftorian feems to have carried even to his compofition of the 
 chronicle his love of romances, and to have imitated the dilorder which, 
 reigns in fuch fort of works ; from which we might fay he has affe6ted-r
 
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 even to borrow their flyle. Thus, for example, wlien he begins a narrative, 
 he frequently ufes this expreflion, ' Now the tale fays;' and when he fpeaks 
 of the death of any one, or of fome other melancholy event, he adds, ' but 
 amend it he could not ;' phrafes which are to be met with in almolt every 
 page of the romances of the Round Table. 
 
 However, all I fay of this romantic tafte of Froiffart, which he feems 
 to have preferved in his hiftory, appUes folely to the ftyle he makes ufe of; 
 for I have never once obferved that he attempts to embellifli it with the 
 marvellous. The faults which are met with contrary to hiftorical exadlnefs 
 arife folely from the natural confufion of his mind, the precipitation with 
 which he wrote, and the ignorance he muft neceffarily have been in 
 refpecling many things, which muft be fuppofed to have efcaped his 
 inquiries. What he relates of diftant countries, fuch as Africa, Hungary, 
 Tartary, and in general the eaftern parts of the world, is full of the grofleft 
 blunders. In his time, commerce had not formed any connexion between 
 thofe countries and our own : what was known of them was founded on 
 the faith of thofe whom accident had carried thither, and who had refiJed 
 there too iliort a time to gain fufficient information refpe6ling the manners, 
 cuftoms, and hiftory of their inhabitants. But if Froiffart has committed 
 many faults in what he relates to us, the greateft, without doubt, is to have 
 Cpoken at all of what he could not with any degree of accuracy know. 
 
 All thefe defedls and imperfe6lions do not prevent his chronicle from 
 being confidered as one of the moft precious monuments of our hiftory ; and 
 the perufal of it from being as agreeable as inftru6live to thofe who, not 
 confining themfelves to the knowledge of general fa£ls, feek in the details of 
 particular events, and of the ufages of that period, to develcpe the charadter 
 of mankind, and of the ages which have paffed. 
 
 Froiffart was born to tranfmit to pofterity a living pi6lure of an age 
 which preferred the hazard of war to the folid advantages of peace, — which, 
 amid the intervals of troubles almoft continually agitating it, found relaxation 
 only in the moft tumultuous pleafures. 
 
 Befides the conflidls of fo many nations which he relates, and in which 
 he defcnbes divers ufages refpe6ling the Ban and Arriere Ban, the attack 
 and defence of places, fortifications, detachments, fkirmilhes, orders of
 
 4!; 
 
 battle, artillery, marine, the armour of thofe on foot, and thofe on 
 horfeback : we find in this hiftory e\'ery thing which can excite curiofitv 
 with regard to nobility and knighthood, their challenges, their deadly 
 combats, tilts, tournaments, entries of princes, — affemblics, fcafts, balls, 
 the drelles of both fexes, — fo that his chronicle is a complete body of the 
 antiquities of the fourteenth century. I muft confefs, that thefe details only 
 attra6l attention from their own fingularity : they are related without ftudy 
 and without art. It is, in truth, a familiar converfation with a man of 
 undcrftanding who has feen a great deal and tells his (lory well. 
 Neverthelefs, this amiable ftory-teller knows how, at times, and in 
 particular when he fpeaks of any grand event, to unite the majefty of 
 hiftory with the fimplicity of a tale. Let any one read, among other 
 things, the many battles which he has fo excellently painted : let him read 
 the recital of the famous battle of Poitiers, — he will there fee, in the perfou 
 of the prince of Wales, a hero, far greater by the generofity with which he 
 made ufe of his vi6lory, by his attentions to a conquered prince, and by the 
 refpe6t he always paid him, than by thofe efforts of courage which had 
 made him triumph. 1 do not believe there is any thing which can equal 
 the fublimity of this morfel of hiftory, nothing which can more intereft the 
 heart and elevate the mind. Others, of a very different nature have their 
 value in their fimplicity : fuch is the epifode of the love of the king of 
 England for the countefs of Salilbury, the tender and affecting recital of 
 which does not yield to the moft ingenious and beft-written romances. 
 The hiftorian fometimes takes a gay tone, as in the chapter wherein he 
 ipeaks of the impatience of the young king Charles VI. to receive his new 
 bride ; and in that wherein he relates the jokes which this prince made on 
 his uncle, the duke of Berry, who, at a time of life not well fuited for love, 
 married a young wife. 
 
 The tafte of the author is very vifible in the manner in which he treats 
 thefe fubje(5ls ; but as the age he lived in knew how to conciliate all things, 
 this tafte did not exclude the ftrain of devotion which runs through the 
 courfe of his work. It is only to be wifhed that he had not degraded his 
 religion by a credulity ridiculoufly fuperftitious : falfe miracles, prophecies, 
 enchantments, have nothing in them fo abfurd as not to find in hiin aa 
 
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 unbounded and blind belief. Every one knows the tale he tells of the- 
 demon Orthon. It can fcarcely be comprehended how he can coane6l 
 with Chriftianity the example which he draws from the fable of Acleon to 
 juftify the probability of an adventure of the fame fort, which makes part 
 of another tale. He has befides been reproached with having dilhonoured 
 hiftory by his too great minutenefs. I agree, that we readily would have 
 difpenfed with his telling us at what fign thofe lodged of whom he was 
 fpeaking, and pointing out the inns where he himfelf had fometimes taken 
 up his quarters ; but I cannot equally condemn the love-adventures, the 
 feafts and ceremonies of which he has left us deicriptions. Although at 
 times his narrations be not relating to fubjecls fufficiently noble, ^et he 
 paints fo agreeably and fo truly the age of which he writes the hiilory that 
 it would, I think, be ungrateful to make any complaints. 
 
 I have inferted fummarily in this criticifm a (ketch of the opinions which' 
 different authors have given of him, and they may be cnnfulted. 1 will add' 
 that of an author who knew better than any other the full value of a ready 
 and natural genius. 
 
 ' I love,' fays Montaigne, * hiflorians unafFc6led or excellent: the 
 unaffe6led, who have not wherewithal to add of their own, and who are 
 only careful to colle6t and pick up every thing which falls within their 
 notice, and to put down every thing without choice and without forting, 
 give us the opportunity of wholly judging of their truth. Such, for 
 example, is the worthy Froiflart, who has gone on with his work with' 
 fuch a frank fimplicity that, having committed a fault, he is no way 
 afliamed of avow ing it, and correcting it at the place where he is informed 
 of it, — and who tells us the diverfity of rumours which were current, and 
 the different accounts that were told to him. It is hiflory, naked and 
 unadorned : every one may profit from it, according to the depth of his- 
 underftanding.' 
 
 I come now to the editions of Froiflcirt. We have three black-letter 
 ones, and two pofTierior to them : that which I believe to be the oldelt is 
 by Anthony Verard, at Paris, without a date, three volumes in folio. The 
 fecond is printed at Paris, by Michael le Noir, the 15th July lb05, two 
 volumes in foho, in a hundiome type. The third is dated Paris, by Galliot
 
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 du Pre, 1530, three volumes in folio. The fourth, Lyons, by John do 
 Tournes, 1559, 1560, 1561, three volumes in folio, revifed and corredted 
 by Denys Sauvage. The fifth, which copies exaclly the fourth, is dated 
 Paris, by Gervais Mallot, 1574, three volumes in folio*. 
 
 There is reafon to believe, from the manner in which father Long 
 exprefles himfelf on the fubjc6l of the editions of FroilTart, that there may 
 be others in which has been united into one body his chronicle, with the 
 firft continuation, by an anonymous writer, to the year 1498, and with a 
 fecond continuation to the year 1513. But thefe works have never been 
 printed together. This is not the only miltake which this learned librarian 
 has made in the fame article, as I will fliortly explain, when I fpeak of 
 thefe continuations. He alfo notices an hiftorical work, printed under this 
 title ; ' Order of the Entry, and happy Arrival in the City of Paris, of 
 Ifabella of Bavaria, Queen of France, Wife of Charles VI. in the Year 
 13S9, extra6led from the fourth Book of the Hiftory of FroifTart,' without 
 marking either the date or place of its impreflion. 
 
 I am ignorant whether this be not an old fragment of Froiflart which 
 Sauvage had confulted, which had been printed before the black-letter 
 editions, and of which I have never been able to gain any knowledge. 
 To return to thofe editions I have pointed out, I fliall fix principally on 
 that of Sauvage, and endeavour to fhew, at the fame time, what opinion 
 fhould be formed of the black-letter editions which preceded his. 
 
 If the hiftorian has been accufed of (hewing too great a hatred to the 
 French in feveral parts of his chronicle, the editor has been equally accufed 
 of fhewing too great a partiality for them, by fupprelfing every thing which 
 
 * M. de St Palaye does not ieem to liave known all the editions of Froiflart. I have three of 
 different dates from thofe he mentions. 
 
 1. A mofl: fuperb copy on vellum, in four volumes, which originally belonged to the Soubifc 
 Library, purchaled at the fale of the Bibliodieca Parifiana, printed in black letter, by GuiUame Euftace, 
 at Paris, 1514. 
 
 2. An edition by Denys Sauvage, in four volumes, printed by Michael Sonnius, Paris, 1574. 
 This had belonged to Mr fecretary Craggs. 
 
 3. An edition by Denys Sauvage, in four volumes, printed for Michael de Roigny, Paris, 1574. 
 'fhis bad belonged to Mr Tyrwhitt.
 
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 might difpleafe them. Perhaps this charge is only made in confequence of 
 the firft ; and readers, prejudiced on one hand againft Froiflart for having 
 been an enemy to the French, furprifed on the other at not finding any 
 traces of this pretended enmity in his hiflory, may have judged, without 
 further reafon, that Sauvage had retrenched, through love for his country, 
 all that the hiftorian had written through hatred to it. The French with 
 whom Sauvage, according to this mode of reafoning, ought to have found 
 favour, have not been lefs hard upon him on another head. According to 
 feveral, he has altered and disfigured the proper names: he has changed the 
 fimple language of the times of FroifTart, to fubrtitute his own, by which 
 he has more obfcured the hiftory than enlightened it, and has only caufed 
 thofe editions which were prior to his own to become more fcarce and more 
 dear. We fliall fee whether this be the recompence that all the trouble he 
 gave himlelf deferved ; but I ought firll to fpeak of the manner in w hich he 
 laboured at this edition, and the afliftance he had, according to the account 
 which he gives himfelf. 
 
 Sauvage, having firft tranfcribed the printed copy of Galliot du Pre, 
 compared it with the two other black-ktter editions, when he found the 
 difference between them fo trifling that he thought he ought to confider all 
 three but as the fame. He then collated his text with a printed fragment 
 ftill more ancient ; then with the third volume of ' La JVler des Hill:oires,' 
 in which FroifTart has been copied from the beginning to the 177th chapter; 
 and, laftly, with two abridgments in MS. winch he diftinguilhes, not being 
 acquainted with the authors, by the names of ' La Chaux and de Sala,' 
 who had communicated them to him. 
 
 The editor, in acknowledging that thefe abridgments, or manufcripts, 
 which were fo much damaged that he was frequently obliged to guefs the 
 meaning, have been at times very ufeful to him, gives notice that he did 
 not follow their punctuation ; but, perluaded there cannot be too great 
 exadtnefs in religioully preferving the language of ancient authors, he 
 follows, with a fcrupulous attention, the orthography, the ancient words 
 and ancient modes of fpeech, although they were very different from what 
 they were when the firlt copies came frora the hands of FroifTart. He, 
 nevertheleis, avows that, without derogating from the refpedt due to the
 
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 ancient text, he has thou,2;ht himfelf juftified in making fome changes, but 
 folely when he has been under the indirpenfible neceflity of feeking the aid 
 of better hiftorians, to give a meaning to pi^fTages which were in want of it. 
 Even in thefe cafes, the only ones in which he has taken the hbcrty of 
 making any change, he has had the precaution to place in the margin the 
 original reading, however defe6live it might be, leaving, by thefe means, to 
 the reader the power of judging of the corre6tions he had made. With 
 regard to proper names, and the names of places, he has not touched them, 
 from the impoffibilitv of corre6ting them with fuccefs. 
 
 The editor addrefles the four volumes of FroilTart to the conftable dc 
 Montmorency, by as many dedicatory epirtlcs. He tells us in the firft, and 
 by an advertifement to his readers, that the editions he had already given of 
 feveral of our hiltorians were but preparatory to a general hiftory of the 
 Gauls and of the kingdom of France, which he was then employed on. 
 
 Sauvage promifes nothing relative to his edition of Froillart which he 
 has not faithfully performed, as we may be convinced by following the 
 notes which he added. I do not fay that he has ahvays chofen well from 
 the different texts he had under his eyes ; but if the corrections he propofes 
 be not all equally juft, there are many which offer a clear and very probable 
 meaning of paflages, which, in the old editions, are a colle6lion of words 
 without connexion and without fenfe. With regard to the language, 
 befides his attention never to change any of the ancient words, he 
 accompanies them with an explanation whenever he thinks them not 
 fufiiciently intelligible. His zeal in this refpedl is more praileworthy than 
 his intelligence. It is furprifing that, after having publilhed feveral at our 
 old authors, he was not better acquainted with then- language, and that he 
 fliould add fuch unnatural explanations and etymologies. 
 
 As the chronology of Froiflart was fometimes detective, Sauvage has 
 reformed it in thofe places which appeared to him molt faulty, lie has 
 often recalled to the reader's memory diftant paffages, in order to reconcile 
 them, or to Ihew their contradi6lion ; or, in Ihort, to demonitrate the 
 connexion of certain fa^ts with each other ; but his attempts in this part 
 are fcarcely worth mentioning.
 
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 Some genealogies, which regard perfons of whom Froiffart fpcaks, as 
 Tv-ell as fome remarks on divers places, the pofition of which he attempts to 
 fix, by relating the different names they are called by, fliew that the editor 
 had not abfolutely negleaed thefe two objeas. We muft not be furpriied 
 that fo many foreign names fliould not always be exaaiy corre6l : befides 
 their having been changed fmce that time, we fliould not impute as blame, 
 either to the author or editor, the faults of copyifts who have incorredtly 
 read them, and who have written them according to the pronunciation 
 or orthography of their language and age ; tor not only are the names read 
 in as many different ways as there are manufcripts, but they continually vary 
 in the fame manufcript as often as they are met with. The only method of 
 remedying this, is to clear up Froiffart by himfelf, in collating the various 
 paffases where the fame name is found, and this is what Sauvage has done; 
 and for greater fecurity, he has read over five times the text of his author : 
 however, when he could not draw any advantage from this repeated reading 
 he has made ufe of affiftance wherever it could be found. He appears, in 
 fa£l, to have ftudied very carefully the maps and defcriptions of thofe 
 countries the hifl:oiian fpeaks of, and alfo to have coniulted their inhabitants. 
 We obferve, that when he retired to Lyons to give himfelf up more freely 
 to ftudy, he went to reconnoitre in that neighbourhood the field of battle of 
 Brinay, or Brinais, where the duke of Bourbon had been defeated in 1360 
 by the free companies. The defcription he gives of it is very inftruaive, 
 and ferves to clear up the circumftances of that event. An epitaph which 
 he had read in a church at Lyons ferves at another time to prove the falfity 
 of a date in Froiffart. In fliort, there is fcarcely any hiftorian of importance, 
 of whatever country he might be, whom Sauvage had not feen, in order the 
 better to underftand him on whom he was employed, and to make him better 
 vinderftood by others, and to confirm or to reaify his teftimony. We may 
 count nearly forty authors whom he cites in his margins, as well relative to 
 the hiftory of France as to that of England, Scotland, Flanders, Germany, 
 Spain, Italy, Hungary and Turkey. I add, that he confulted the original 
 aas, fince he has infcrted in his annotations the ratification of the treaty of 
 JBretigny, figned by the prince of Wales at Calais, after having tranfcribed
 
 03 
 
 with his hand upon a copy from the fame prince, collated by a ' Treforicr 
 des Chartres.' 
 
 If, then, the edition of Sauvage be ftill very imperfc6l, it has not any 
 defe6ls but what the preceding editions have in common with it; to whichj 
 however, it is infinitely fuj)erior. The editor, well verfed in our antiquities 
 and our hiftory, exa6l in the performance of his dut}', and indefatigable in 
 the purfuit of his object, proves, by the conftant ufe he makes of the two 
 manufcripts, by the judgment he gives of their infufficiency, and by tha 
 regret he exprefles at not being able to meet with better, that he has been 
 in greater want of afllftance than of good will, good faith, and capicity. 
 
 In his time, manufcripts buried in the libraries of ignorant monks, or in 
 the archives of private pcrfons, and unknown to their pofTeifors, were loft to 
 the learned world. Times have fmce changed : thanks to the attention of 
 minifters, who negledl nothing for the public good, there is fcarcely a man 
 of letters to whom manulcripts of all ages are not become a fort of property. 
 Nothing would be wanting to the good fortune of this age, if, with fuch 
 abundant fuccours, there could be found men as laborious as Sauvao-e to 
 take advantage of them ; for I have not a doubt but that, if he had beea 
 able to procure accefs to the manufcripts we poflefs, he would have given 
 us an excellent edition of FroifTart. 
 
 The number of thofe known at this day is fo confiderable that, after the 
 Bible and the fathers, I do not believe there is any work of which there have 
 been fo manv copies, — which fhews the great efteem it has been held in 
 during every age. In the national library alone there are upwards of thirty 
 volumes in folio, which contain feparately fome one of the four books into 
 which this hiftory is divided. The numbers 6760, 8317, 8318, 83 J 9, 
 8320, 83'i4, 8331-2, 8332, SSS^, 8335 and 36 joined together, 8334; 
 and the numbers of the manufcripts of Colbert, united with thofe of the 
 nation, 15, 85, and 231, include the firft volume. The numbers 8321, 
 8530, 8333, 8337, and 8338, added together with thole of Colbert, 19 
 and 86, compofe the fecond volumiC. The numbers 8325, 8328, 8337, 
 and 8338, added to thofe of Colbert, 87 and 232, the third volume. The, 
 numbers 8329, 8331, 8341, 8344, added together, and that of Colbert, 17„ 
 compofe the fourth volume.
 
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 I fliould extend this eflay to too great a length if I were to defcribe the 
 :form, the age, the titles, the omiffion- or imperfeftions, and other fingularlties, 
 Avhich diftinguidi thefe manufcripts. In regard to other and more effential 
 differences, I fliall fay in general, that the greater part confift in tranfpofitions 
 of fome articles, in changes, additions, or retrenchments of words, in omiffions 
 fometimcs confidcrable ; abbreviations of feveral chapters, or compreffion of 
 many events into a narrow compafs; vague tranfitions„ufelefs recapitulations 
 of the foregoing chapters ; certain modes of phrafcology, which, like formulas, 
 are repeated in every page ; and fome interpolations of the copyifls, which, 
 fervino- only to fwell out the volume, have been wifely curtailed by Sauvage 
 in his printed edition. I will not quote any other example than the paflage 
 where, fpeaking of the afFe£lion of Edward III. for the princefs of Hainault, 
 whom he married, he fays, ' a fine fpark of love therefore (truck him ;' to 
 which the copyift adds thefe words, ' which madame Venus fent him by 
 Cupid the god of love.' However, among thefe frivolous additions, there 
 may have been fome of importance which it would be proper to fearch for 
 in thofe parts that offer any difhculty, or in thofe articles which demand a 
 fcrious difcuffion. 
 
 After thefe general obfervations, I will fay one word of the principal 
 Fingularities which I have noticed in fome of thefe manufcripts. Thofe of 
 the numbers 8315, and 17 of Colbert, are remarkable for the corre6lions 
 which have been made on their margins in the article that mentions Philip 
 de Valois's acccffion to the crown of France. The fame hand has alfo 
 added to this laft manufcript a note, which is written on one of the blank 
 leaves prefixed to the chronicle : ' Two verfes which the peers of France 
 fent to king Edward of England, at the time when he difputed the fucceffion 
 to the crown of France. 
 
 ' Credo regnorum qui cupis efle duorum 
 Succedunt mares huic regno non mulieres *.' 
 
 * To re-eftablirti the meafure and the fenfe of the firft verfe, we muft, I think, add the word 
 rex : ' Regnonjm qui Rex cupis efle duorum.* And to make Edward feel tlie application, we may, 
 inftead of Credo, read Crede, or Credito, of which Credo is perhaps an abbreviation. With regard 
 to the fecond, the number of fyllables is preferved which an hexameter requires, and that fliould be 
 tifiicient for us not to quarrel with tlic meafure. Sx Palayje.
 
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 In number 8318, we read in the fame handwriting with the manufcript, 
 that it was given to John duke of Berry, the 8th November 1 407, by William 
 Boifraticr, mailer of requefts, and counfellor to this prince. If it be the fame 
 \\ hich has fince been given by M. de Chandenier to M. ie Laboureur, as this 
 laft believed, it would be rendered the more precious from this circumftance, 
 that there would be found in it very confiderable variations, which he fays 
 he has obferved in this manufcript, from the printed copies, and more 
 efpecially from that of Sauvage; or it would convince us of the falfity of this 
 imputation, which appears to me very fufpicious. 
 
 But as the copy of M. Ie Laboureur, as he himfelf informs us, contained 
 miniatures reprefcnting the principal events of the hiftory, and as the one 
 which Boifratier prefented to the duke of Berry does not contain any, it is 
 certain that it cannot be the fame. Although the miniatures, head-pieces, 
 capital letters illuminated and embofled with gold, in the manufcript 831,9, 
 be of great beauty, — it muft, neverthelefs, yield in this refpect to number 
 8320, from which much may be learnt regarding warlike cufloms, 
 ceremonies, dreffes and other points of antiquity. The reverend father 
 Montfaucon has taken from them the prints of the entry of queen Ifabella 
 of France, and the arreft of the king of Navarre, which he has inferted 
 in his ' Monuments Francois.' Notwithftanding this, I believe that in 
 thefe miniatures, which are not, at the moft, earlier than the middle of the 
 fifteenth century, the painter has confounded the drefies of his own age with 
 thofe of the times of which he was painting the hiftory. 
 
 We fee at the beginning of feveral manufcripts the author reprefented 
 differently drefled, — fometimes as a canon, with his furplice and aioni/Je*; 
 fometimes in a purple robe, prefenting his work to the king of France, or 
 to fome other prince, feated on his throne and crowned. The king of 
 England is known by his robe embroidered with leopards in the number 
 8331-2, and the queen of England in number 15 of Colbert's colle6lions. 
 
 The moft ancient of all the manufcripts of the firft volume are the 
 numbers 8318 and 8331-2, which appear to me to be of the end of the 
 
 * Aumufle is a fort of armilla of fur, which canons wear on their arms when drefled. I caimyt 
 £Hd any enghlh word foi- it. 
 
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 fourteenth century ; and though many things are deficient in each of them, 
 their antiquity ought to give them the preference. My opinion is the fame 
 refpe6ling the manufcript number 8333, being the mod ancient of the 
 fecond volume, though it does not feem to me to have been written earUer 
 than the middle of the fifteenth century. The number 832 1 is a continuation 
 of number 83'iO : there are fewer miniatures, but they are equally beautiful, 
 which is the only merit the number poflelTes ; for otherwife, it is, properly 
 fpeaking, but an extra6t of Froiflart, and frequently many chapters are 
 omitted together. 
 
 Number 16 is of the fame writing as number 15, of which it is a 
 continuation, and contains, befides the fecond volume, a part of the third, 
 as far as thefe words of the 44th chapter, page 151 of the edition of 
 Sauvage, ' Thus was broken off the expedition by fea at this time,' to- 
 which it adds, ' which coft the kingdom of France one hundred thoufand 
 francs, thirty times told.' 
 
 Number 8330 has for title, ' The third Volume of the Chronicles of 
 Froiflart,' although it contains but the fecond. By a fimilar miftake we 
 read, at the end of number 8325, which concludes the third volumej. 
 * Here ends the fecond volume of the chronicles of Froidart.' This 
 manufcript, which is but of the middle of the fifteenth century, is that in 
 which the language of old times is the moft preferved : perhaps it has been 
 copied from feme other more ancient than thofe which we pollefs. There 
 are at the end feme circumftances concernuig Froilfart, which are alfo in 
 the manufcripts 8328 and 232, and which are not in the printed copies. It 
 is chiefly the antiquity of the flyle which makes me confider the manufcript 
 8329, although fcarcely earlier than the end of the fifteenth century, as the 
 beft we have for the fourth volume. We fiad in it, as in the numbers 8331, 
 8341, 42 and 17, two important additions. The firft is the preface, which 
 I have noticed in the life of FroiiTart, the fecond terminates the whole of 
 his chronicle, when the author, towards the end, fpeaking of the death of 
 Richard, fa\s that he would not enter into any detail of it, from want of 
 havinir fufficient infi-rn.ation. The addition is a fort of letter, true or falfe, 
 which is addrdft'd to him, and by which he is informed of all the particulars, 
 fuch as had been written by a man worthy of belief, who was then in
 
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 England. The manner in which this fa6l is related has not been forgotten 
 by the englifli hillorians, who have mentioned the different rumours which 
 had gone abroad on this fubie61:. 
 
 Number 17 feems to have been written by the fame hand as 15 and 16 ; 
 and thefe three, added to the manufcript of the third book, which is 
 wanting, perhaps made the work complete. 
 
 Under the number 169 of the Coiflin Library, at prefent in that of 
 St Germain des Prez, are comprehended four volumes, three of which are 
 of the fame handwriting; that is to fay, of the middle of the fifteenth 
 century, containing the firft, the third, and laft book of Froiffart. The 
 fourth, which is of the fame writing, but more beautiful, is another copy of 
 the laft book, with the addition which 1 have juft mentioned, concerning 
 the death of Richard. 
 
 M. Mahudel has communicated to me a manufcript of the beginning 
 of the fifteenth century, without a title, and which may have been fuppofed 
 to have been written byFroiffart; but it is only a veryfuccincl abridgment, 
 in which has been preferved, as much as poffible, the original text of the 
 hiftorian to the end of the firft volume, where the abridgment ceafes. It 
 is divided into fix books, of which the two firft end with thefe words : 
 
 * Here ends the firft (the fecond) book of this fecond volume of the 
 chronicles of England, and confequently the feventh (the eighth) of the 
 four parciaulx' (or volumes). We read alio at the end of the fixth^ 
 
 * Here ends the fecond volume of the chronicles of England.' 
 
 This manufcript probably made part of four volumes of a compilation 
 of a hiftory of England, divided each into fix books, fucli nearly as our 
 chronicles of St Denis. The firft volume would have contained events 
 anterior to Froiflart ; and as the fecond, which we have, includes an 
 abridgment of his firft volume, we may prefume that the two following 
 would, in like manner, have contained that of the three other volumes, and 
 perhaps alfo the hiftory of the times pofterior to them. 
 
 This abridgment, however, is the fame with that of La Chaux, which 
 Sauvage has made ufe of : I difcover the marks by which he has pointed it 
 out, with the exception of the firft leaf, which may have been loft fince 
 that time.
 
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 To this great number of manufcripts others muft be added, which 
 contain only very (hort abridgments of the chronicle of Froiffart, and 
 which are to be found in the national library, among the manufcripts of 
 the Colbert colle6fion. Such are the numbers 169, including part of the 
 firfl: and fecond volumes abridged, 25 8, nearly conformable to the 
 foregoing, excepting where they have added at the end four pages, 
 containing ' the tcnour of the letters of alliance of France with Scotland,* 
 in 1379, with the names of thofe lords, as well Scots as French, who figned 
 the treaty, and '■li'i^i, which comprehends the abridgment of the four 
 volumes. This is preceded by a preface, wherein the abbreviator, having 
 faid he fliould follow FroifTart ' chapter by chapter,' adds, ' and becaufe 
 this fame mafter John FroifTart has not made an index to his firfl: book, and 
 by means of the index to a book we may, at one glance, fee thofe parts 
 which we may be defirous to read, I have refolved to divide this firit book, 
 into one hundred and twenty-feven chapters.' 
 
 We fee nothing in thefe manufcripts which either eftablilhes the pretended 
 enmity of Froiflart againft the French, nor which jumlies the accuiation 
 brought againft Sauvage of having altered the text of his hiftorian ; but 
 a magnificent manufcript at Breflaw furnifhes, according to fome writers, 
 an incontehible proof of it. The learned world, fay they, believe they 
 have an entire FroifTart : it has been grolU , deceived by Sauvage, who has 
 not preferved the tenth part of it in hib edition. We may reply to this 
 charge, ift, That Sauvage will be alwa}S exempt from reproach, hnce he 
 has given us the text of FroifTart, fuch as he had feen it in the known 
 copies of his time, 'idly. That the defcription they give us of the 
 miniatures of this manufcript of Breflaw, maKCS us believe that it cannot 
 be much older than towards the end of the fifteenth century ; and that, 
 confequently, it is but of very moderate authority. In Ihort, after tiie 
 agreement of fo many other manuicriptb, of which many even have been 
 written in England, or deltined for that country, fince the author is 
 reprefcnted as oiiermg his book to tne king and queen of England, it will 
 not be eafy to periuade the world that the Imgie manufcript of Breflaw 
 contains alone fuch very confidcrable diiierences. At lea^t, it becomes 
 prudent to iufpend cur judgment until they fliall have publillied the.
 
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 manufcript itfelf, or fome of thofe paflTages which are faid to have been 
 retrenched. We cannot too eagerly prefs the pofleflbrs of it to allow the 
 public to participate of a treafure fo infinitely precious to the lovers of 
 hillory. If, hitherto, we have been in error, we will cheerfully turn back ; 
 and there is not a man of letters pofTefTing fenfe who, laying afide all 
 national intereft, would not ardently defire to have the Chronicles of 
 Froiflart fuch as they came from the hands of the author. 
 
 Many manufcripts of FroilTart are to be found in the libraries of 
 foreign countries. There is one in the library of the cathedral of Tournay, 
 according to the report of feveral flemilh librarians ; three in England *, 
 according to the catalogue of manufcripts in that kingdom, which alfo 
 mentions fome manufcript notes collected by Mr Alhimole; and ot lers 
 again which may be feen in the new catalogue of manufcripts by father 
 Montfaucon, 
 
 Befide the ancient abridgments of Froiflart, Sleidan, full of admiration 
 for this hiftorian, and anxious that the advantages which may be derived 
 from him fliould be common to all ages and nations, made, in 1537, a Latin 
 abridgment, which was afterwards tranflated into French and Englilh by> 
 P. Golin, in 4to, London, 1608. 
 
 In a preface, or cpiftle, which precedes the Latin edition, the author, 
 recommends the ftudy of the hiftory of France above all others, and 
 particularly that of Froiflart, whofe candour he praifes, and whom he only 
 finds fault with for being fometimes too minute in his military details, and 
 in his converfations with princes. Foreigners accufe Sleidan of not havinf^ 
 compofed this abridgment with the diuntereflednefs and fidelity to hava 
 been expected from a man of fo great a reputation, and of wilhing to favour 
 the Freiich too much, as well as of pafllng over the mofl: briiliaut actions of 
 the Englilh, where he quits the fenfe of his author, in writing otherwile than 
 Froilfart had done. This laft reproach docs not feem to me well founded.. 
 With regard to omilTions, he has taken that liberty which an abbreviator 
 
 * M. de St Palaye is ignorant how rich this country is in manufcripts of Froiflart. There aie 
 many magniticent ones in the Britilh Muleuin, at Oxford, Cambridge, and in otJier public and 
 private libraries. I have in my library not lels than lix , but not one is a complete hiflory.
 
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 ought to be allowed to employ himfelf chiefly in extra6ling what he thinks 
 fuitable for his purpofe ; and it is but reafonable to allow that Sleidan, who 
 at the time was living in France with Frenchmen, may, without any want 
 of candour, have atiached himfelf principally to thole fails which concerned 
 them. It will not be fo eafy to juftify Belleforet, who, giving a French 
 abridgment of Froiflart, has contented himfelf with tranflating Sleidan 
 literally, without ever mentioning the author whom he tranllated. 
 
 The Englifh, whom the reading of FroilTart intereits m lo particular 
 a manner, have in their language a tranflation of the chronicles of Froiffart, 
 compofed by f)r John Bourchier, lord Berners, by order of king Henry VIII. 
 and printed towards the end of his reign. There is alfo one in Fiemilh, 
 printed by Guerrit Vander Loo, in folio, — without counting that in the fame 
 tongue which Voflius had feen in manufcript. 
 
 I fhall not fay any thing of thefe tranflations, not having met with either. 
 That of Bourchier is, they fay, more corre6l than the French editions in regard 
 to proper names* : this mull, however, be underllood to mean Englifli names. 
 The Flemifh tranflation muft have the fame advantage with regard to the 
 proper names of perfons and places in Flanders. They may both be of 
 great utility to any future editor who may wilh to give a good edition of 
 Froiflart. 
 
 * I am forry that I muft contratli6l M. de St Palaye, in his opinion of lord Berners's 
 tranflation. Had it been as he imagines, I fhould not have attempted to offer a new tranflation to 
 die pubHc ; but, fo far from being corredi: in regard to names, he mangles them nearly as much as 
 Froiflart. I cannot flatter myfelf witli having lucceeded to my own fatisfadlion, altliough I have 
 taken every poflible pains to make it as complete as the difiiculties attending it would admit.
 
 OK 
 
 THE POETRY OF FROISSART, 
 
 BTf 
 
 AN ANONYMOUS WRITER, 
 
 i^f THE MEMOIRES DE l'acADEMIE, VOL. XIV. P. 219, ScC. 
 
 JljISTORIANS have a great advantage over other writers; for as the 
 principal merit of their works depends on their veracity, they are not hable 
 to the revohitions or caprices to which other productions are fubje6led, 
 from the arbitrary tafle of different nations and ages, and for this reafon are 
 tranfmitted with more certainty to pofterity. 
 
 Froiflart, whofe name is delervedly celebrated on account of the hillory 
 he has left us, would fcarcely be known from his poetry, if Pafquier had not 
 noticed the title of a copy of his poems which he had feen in the king's 
 library at Fontainebleau : he may, however, have occupied a no lefs 
 honourable place among the poets of his age than among the hiftorians; 
 and this is a point which M. de la Curne de Sainte Palaye has undertaken, 
 to examine before he conclude the refearches he has made concerning him 
 and his produdlions. To confine himfelf ftriclly within the limits he has 
 prefcribed to himfelf, he does not promife to enter into a minute detail of 
 all his poetry, which comprehends about thirty thoufand verfes<,
 
 64. 
 
 Among the poems of confiderable length, to which Frolflart has given 
 the names of Traittez, M. de la Curne has chofen the Paradis cV Amour and 
 VHorloge Amoureiife. Among thofe called Ditiez, he has felefled that of 
 the Margxierite; and in the mifcellaneous pieces, as rondeaus, ballads, 
 paftorals, Lais, Virelais and Chants Roi/aux, he has taken particular pains 
 to make us acquainted with the paftorals and rondeaus. 
 
 THE PARADISE OF LOVE. 
 
 The poet, tormented by the moft violent love, falls afleep, and dreams, 
 and the fubic6V of this dream forms the plan of his poem. He finds himfelf 
 feated in a beautiful wood, on the banks of a rivulet befprinkled with 
 flowers, and furrounded by birds, among whom the nightingales form the 
 moft charming concerts. RecoUedling, at this moment, the events of his 
 youth, and the various fuccefs he had met with in his amours, he utters a 
 violent complaint againft the god of love for all the misfortunes he had 
 made him fuffer. Plunged in a melancholy not to be alleviated by the 
 fongs of the birds, he hears a confufed noife of voices, which made him 
 retire behind a bufh : two ladies appear as brilliant in charms as in drefs, 
 and, having approached, want to beat him, in revenge for the infult he had 
 juft offered to the god of love, their mafter : their names were Pleafure and 
 Hope. Being fomewhat appeafed, they tell him he fliould impute his 
 misfortunes to himfelf alone, for that he had failed in fubmiffion and 
 perfeverance, which had been ftrongly recommended to him on his 
 engaging under the ftandard of love; and, befides, aftijre him, that by thefe 
 means more might have been obtained by him from the lady of his heart in 
 one hour than he could have imagined, or even wilhed. Pleafure, after 
 this ufeful advice, fatisfies his curiofity to know what were her fun6lions 
 with the god of love. The principal, flie faid, confifted in fupporting his 
 power, by the reciprocal charms which ftie conferred on two perfons in love 
 with each other, whence comes the proverbial faying, ' No ugly lover nor 
 ill-favoured miftrefs.' He then conjures her, by all the credit flie may be
 
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 fuppofed to have in the court of Love, to exert herfclf that the lady to whom 
 he had paid his homage (hould become lefs cruel. 
 
 Hope, into whofe hands Pleafurc transfers him, demands if he be not 
 jealous, which (lie calls the curfe of lovers, and promifes to cure him of 
 this diforder, provided he would never lofe fight of her. At length, the 
 two ladies conducl him by the hand to the park where Love refided, and 
 on the road afk him for fome ballads and virelays of his compofition, which 
 they fing with him. 
 
 They meet near a hill dour penfer, gentil damoifcau, holding two 
 greyhounds in a leafli, who points out to them the place where they would 
 find the god they are in fearch of. Several hunters, luch as Beau-fcmblant, 
 Beau-regard, Franc-vouloir, Defir, Souvenir, Bien-befognant , and others, 
 fcattered over different parts with greyhounds, purfuing the chace of love, 
 afford opportunities to the new pilgrim to inquire if the god had many fuch 
 hunters, and learns that he had thirty times as many, as well counts and 
 dukes as kings and others. 
 
 When they had advanced farther, they meet a large company of beautiful 
 ladies and damfels, with handfome youths, all clothed in green, and preparing 
 to dance ; and on his alking who they were, Pleafure names many heroes 
 and heroines of romance, all fubje6ts of the divinity, who dance near the 
 paradife of his refidence. At laft they come to his pavilion, which is 
 extended under a grove of trees, and the poet being prcfented, recites a lay 
 fo much to the fatlsfaclion of the god that he promifes him his affiftance, 
 and defires the ladies who had brought him to take every care of him, and 
 lliew him his gardens. 
 
 As they were walking, finging, and gathering flowers, they met, in a 
 handfome mead furrounded with rofe-trees, Bd-accueil, who was making 
 a chaplet of flowers, which two young maidens were collecting for 
 him. The lover inftantly runs to caft himfelf at the feet of his miftrefs : 
 fpeaks to her of his palTion with tranfports, intermixed with trembling : 
 tells her of the prayer he had made to Love, and entreats her to foften a 
 little of her rigour, if fhe be dcfirous that he lliould live. She afks, with a 
 iweet fmile, what he wilhes from her, and as flie had recommended him not 
 
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 to exceed the bounds of difcretion, he conjures her, that now being alone, 
 fhe would allow him to hear fome foft expreflions from her mouth, and to 
 condefcend to retain him as her humble fervant. 
 
 Having obtained theib favours, he goes away with her, and fings a 
 ballad, which gains the applaufe of Pleafure as well as of his miftrefs : the 
 laft alfo rewards him with her permiflion to kifs a chaplet of daifies which 
 fhe had iuft gathered, and which flie herfelf kilfes as ihe places it on his 
 head. He is on the point of obtaining his utmoft wilhes, when ihe 
 propofcs going to another part of the garden to amufe themfelves ; but the 
 joy he feels at this inflant (for it feemed as if Pleafure were touchmg him) 
 making him dart, he awakens, and then returns thanks to the gods who 
 had given him a dream fo full of charms that he had been tranfported into 
 the Farad ife of Love. 
 
 If the poem which follows, under the title of VHorloge Amoureitfe, be- 
 not fo full of fi£tions, it is not the lefs curious for the information it affords 
 us relating to the hiflory of the arts. 
 
 While all things concur towards perfedlion, and a learned fociety, under 
 the eyes of different enlightened minifters of (late, unite to the efforts of the 
 moft able artilfs the fruits of the deepefl: fpeculation, it would become thofe 
 who purfue hiftorical refearches to be animated with a fimilar zeal, and at 
 times to turn their views to the fame objefls, — and, for the utility of the arts 
 to point out by what fteps and by what means they have rifen to the 
 height at which we now fee them, — and, for the honour of thofe who 
 cultivate them, to fhew how very far the moderns have gone beyond their 
 predecefTors in this line. 
 
 Monuments like to the Horloge Amoureufe of FroifTart would form an 
 elTential part of fuch a plan ; for it not only contains a moft circumftantial 
 comparifon of each part of a clock and its movement, with the ftate of a 
 heart in love, and its various agitations, but, among other particulars of 
 this comparifon, it informs us of the ancient ftate of clock-making. We 
 fee, in the firft place, that with regard to the movement, and the ftriking 
 part, each had but two wheels inftead of f: ur, which they have at prelcnt. 
 Thefe two wheels were fufhcient, — but the clocks went only fix or eight; 
 hours, — and they were wound up three or four times a day.
 
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 Secondly, That the clock marked twenty-four hours, beginning with 
 -one to twelve, and then repeating the fame a fecond time. 
 
 Thirdly, That the dial went round, and the hour was marked by a 
 fixed point, which ferved for a hand. 
 
 Fourthly, That inftead of a pendulum or balance wheel, which were 
 not then invented, the clocks had a piece called foliot, which bore two fmall 
 weights called regulcs, whofe ufe was to retard or advance the clock, as 
 they were brought more or lefs near to the center of the foliot. 
 
 Befide the differences in the conftruiStion of clocks, we remark in this 
 poem feveral terms of clock-making which were then ufed, and are now no 
 longer current. 
 
 The flower called Daify, which inceffantly turns to the fun, is celebrated 
 in a poem under the title of ' Le Dit de la Marguerite.' This flower was 
 formed, according to the poet, from the tears the young Hercs (lied over 
 the tomb of Cepheus her lover. Mercury was accidentally led to the fpot 
 of this metamorphofis, as he was driving his flock to pafture : furprifed to 
 fee fo beautiful a flower in the month of January, when all the others were 
 lifelefs, and delighted with its brilliancy, he made a chaplet of it, and fent it 
 by his mefl^nger Liris to the fair Heres. So rare a prefent caufed another 
 change more happy than the firft : the nymph, hitherto cruel, became 
 affe6tionate. The god, full of love and gratitude for a flower to which he 
 owed the happinefs of his life, determined to wear it ever after, as an 
 ornament to his head. 
 
 This fi6lion is written with much delicacy and ingenuity : the purity 
 with which the author protefts to love eternally this flower, the fubjedl of 
 his poem, is exprefled with too much tendernels not to conceal a real 
 paflTion, perhaps for a lady of a fimilar name. 
 
 The greater number of Froilfart's paftorals are on the prizes oflTered in 
 -different parts of Flanders and Picardy, to the fairefl: fhepherdefs of the 
 diftri6t, or to the fwain who ihould the beft celebrate his love in fong. 
 
 M. de la Curne defignedly fupprefles many details concerning the drefs 
 of that age, the various mufical inftruments ufed in the country, and other 
 particulars of the fame fort. He likewife paffes over feveral pallorals,
 
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 apparently more important from their connexion with hiftorical events, — 
 fuch as a coining of money, the arrival of king John of France in England, 
 the return of the duke of Brabant to his country after his captivity, the 
 viaory gained by Charles VI. of France at Caffel, the marriage of the duke 
 of Berry, the public entry of queen Ifabella into Paris, &c. 
 
 FroifTart has fucceeded better in his paftorals than in any other fpecies of 
 poetry : that fimple and ingenuous gaiety, which is the general character of 
 his mind, he has transfufed wholly into the fentiments and deportment of 
 his fhepherds and fhepherdeffes. The fubjedls they difcufs, their manner 
 of treating them, and their language, are always conformable to their ftate 
 and fentiments ; a lively joy animates their games and their paftimes ; but 
 to render it more flriking, M. de la Curne thus relates a part of the fourth 
 pafloral. 
 
 A rich fliepherd balances between the fear of lofing the affe«Slion of his 
 miftrefs, who threatens to leave him if he do not marry her, and the great 
 wealth his relations promife him to prevent the match : he, therefore, 
 confidentially feeks advice in this embarraflinent from a Ihepherd who is 
 his friend, and v/hofe counfels end always with, , 
 
 * Si tu peux avoir ta bergere, 
 Oferois-tu demander mieux ?' 
 
 Were that lovely maid your bride. 
 What could you demand befide? 
 
 At this moment the fhepherdefs appears ; they advance to meet her ; and 
 the friend who has been confulted lays, 
 
 * S'elle veut eflre t'amiette, 
 Oferois-tu demander mieux i' 
 
 What compar'd is earthly gain. 
 Could you her confeut obtain !
 
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 The (hepherdcfs has two chapkts of flowers : fhe gives one to her lover^. 
 whaistranfported with joy: the two Ihepherds then take her by the hand. 
 
 * Et puis prircnt a caroler * 
 Et le bergerette a chanter 
 Une chan9on moult nouvelette ; 
 Et difoit en chan9onette, 
 Di moi, aufel, fi t'ayt diex. 
 Si je voeil eflre t'amiette, 
 Olerois-tu demander mieux ?' 
 
 Sweetly fung the gentle fwains ; 
 
 Sweetly fhe return'd their drains 
 
 Jn notes they never hop'd to hear, 
 
 While thofe foft accents charm'd the ear, 
 
 Tell me, Ihould the gods provide 
 
 Such a blefTmg in a bride, 
 
 What could you willi on earth befide ? 
 
 The fubje6ts of rondeaus are almofl always uniform. The moft part 
 of Froiflart's fpeak the natural fentiments of a lover fometimes well treated, 
 at other times the reverfe ; at times gay and happy, at others melancholy 
 and in defpair. The exprelTions are ever lively, tender and fimple, and 
 perfectly paint the paflion with which his breaft is agitated. Underneath 
 are two examples. The hrft rondeau begins, 
 
 * Amours, amours, que voules de moi faire ! 
 En vous ne puis veoir riens de feur. 
 Je ne cognois ne vous ne votre afaire, 
 Amours, amours. Sec. 
 Lequel vaut mieux parlcr, prier ou taire ! 
 Dites le moi, vous qui ayez bon eur,. 
 Amours, amours,' &c. 
 
 * Danfer.
 
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 Ye gods of foft paflion, what do you intend ? 
 You're fo fickle and frolic, and fond of diiguife; 
 I know not is Cupid my foe or my friend. 
 Ye gods of foft paffion, what do you intend ? 
 Whether filence or fpeech my condition will mend, 
 O tell me fome counfellor cunning and wife ! 
 Ye gods of foft paffion, what do you intend ? 
 
 The fecond rondeau : 
 
 * De quoi que foit, fe doit renouveller 
 Uns jolis coers, le premier jour de May, 
 Voire s'il aime, ou s'll penfe a aimer, 
 De quoi que foit, &c. 
 Pour ce vous veux, madame, emayoler* 
 En lieu de May, d'un loyal coer que j'ay, 
 De quoi que foit,' &cc. 
 
 SHE. 
 
 Whatever betides, I will fummon my fwain 
 On the firft day of May his homage to pay; 
 And to know if he's bound, or has broken my chain. 
 Whatever betides, I will fummon my fwain. 
 
 HE. 
 
 Tho* I know your delight is to fport with my pain, 
 And ring the loud iummons the firft day of May, 
 Be it known I'm your Have, and your (lave will remain ; 
 And you need not inquire if I itill wear your chain. 
 
 We may generally fay of Froiffart as a poet, that he was as much 
 wanting in invention for his fubje6t as in imagination for his ornaments. 
 
 * Donner le May.
 
 7X 
 
 JUs flylc, lefs copious than loofe, too frequently offers a tircfome repetition 
 of the fame phrafes and turns of exprcflTioii to introduce common thoughts; 
 but the fimphcity and freedom of his verfification are not always void of 
 grace; we meet now and then with poetical images, and many lines of 
 verfe of a very happy flow. 
 
 Such was the ftate of poetry in that age, and painting was nearly the 
 fame, Thefe two arts, which have almofl always been united, feem to have 
 made an uniform progrefs. Painters, on their emerging from barbarifm, 
 feizing at firfl in detail all the fmall objects nature prefented to them, 
 painted infe6ls, flowers and birds, with fuch brilliant colours, and drew 
 them with fuch exa6lnefs, that we at this day admire them among the 
 ornaments of ancient manufcripts. When they attempted to reprefent the 
 human figure, they ftudicd more to render the outline and the detail of hair 
 as minute as poflible than to give expreflTion to the countenance or motion 
 to the body. Thefe figures, of which vulgar nature furnifhed them with 
 the models, were thrown together, as by accident, without fele6lion, or 
 tafte in the compnfition. 
 
 Poets, as barren as painters, contented themfelves with defcriptions 
 fuited to their talents, and never left off until the fubjedt was worn out. 
 They could fcarcely fing any thing but the beauty of fpiing, the verdure 
 of the country, the enamelled meads, the chaunt of the birds, the clearnefs 
 of a beautiful fountain, or a rivulet that murmured. Sometimes, however, 
 they told with fimplicity the chiklilh amufements of lovers, — their fmiles, 
 their paftimes, their palpitations in the joy of an agitated heart : their 
 imagination did not extend further, and they were befides incapable of 
 forming any link or connexion between their ideas. 
 
 William de Lorris, who began the ' Roman de la Rofe,' feigns, that 
 having fallen afleep in an orchard, he had feen in a dream allegorical 
 perfonages of every virtue and every vice; that by walking through different 
 groves he had heard their converfation, and had even converfcd with them 
 himfelf. It is not known whether he be the firll inventor of this fi6lion ; 
 but however that may be, all the poets, for more than two centuries, 
 enchanted with fo rare an invention, thought they could not do better.
 
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 than copy it, — and whenever they enriched it with any additionaii 
 circumftance, it was the utmoft effort of their mind. 
 
 It was, therefore, a long time after this period, that poets and painters, 
 who had infenfibly and feparately brought their works to perfection, learnt 
 to make choice of the grandelt and moft beautiful obje6ls nature prefented 
 to them, — to unite them with fome fort of propriety, and, having gained 
 greater flrength, to view with one glance the whole extent of their fubje6t, 
 and to form a general plan of it. It was then, that bringing the whole to 
 one point of view, they learnt to reduce it to that unity without which all 
 the works of genius or of art muft ever remain below perfe6lion.
 
 SPECIMENS 
 
 OF 
 
 FRO IS S ART'S POETRY, 
 
 FROM ' LES ANNALES POETTaUES.' 
 
 VIRELAI. 
 
 ' On dit que j'ay bien manier^ 
 D'eftre orguilleufete, 
 Bien affiert a eftre fiere 
 Jeune pucelette. 
 
 Hier matin me levay 
 
 Droit a la journee 
 En un jardinet entray 
 
 Deflus la roufee. 
 
 Jc cuiday eftre premiere 
 Au clos fur I'herbette ; 
 
 Mais mon doux amy y ere 
 Cueillant la flourette. 
 
 On dit que, &cc. &c. 
 
 ■L
 
 r4< 
 
 Un chappelet ly donnay 
 
 Fait a la vefpree : 
 II le prift, bon gre Ten fay,.- 
 
 Puis m'a appellee : 
 
 Veuillez ouir ma priere 
 Tres-belle et doucette ; 
 
 Un petit plus qui n'affiere 
 Vous en eftes durette. 
 
 On dit que,' &c. &c. 
 
 IMITATED. - 
 
 For my lofty looks I'm the talk of the town : 
 My pride and my carriage they fay they can fee 5 • 
 
 But a bridled-up head, and a quality frown, 
 Is very becoming a maid like mc 
 
 On yefterday morning I left my repofe. 
 As gay as a lark at the dawn of -the day, 
 
 And went to the bower of the blooming rofe, 
 Where it flourifhes fair in my garden gay, 
 
 little I thought a companion to find 
 Under the bower, or over the lee ! 
 
 But there was my love fo gentle and kind, 
 And he was preparing a wreath for me. 
 
 1 gave to my love a chaplet I wove, 
 
 On the evening before, by the light of the moon, 
 "Which with joy he receiv'd, but he fcarcely believ'd 
 That 1 had the goodnefs to grant him the boon.
 
 T5 
 
 "*TwIxt joy and defpair, he put up a prayer. 
 And afk'd for my grace with a pitiful plea : 
 
 * Put an end to my pain, and your cruel difdaini 
 For 'tis hard to be borne by a lover like me,' 
 
 RONDEL. 
 
 Reviens, amy ; trop longue eft ta demcurc ; 
 Elle me fait avoir peine et douleur, 
 Mon efprit te demande a toute heure, 
 Reviens, amy ; trop longue eft ta demeure. 
 Car il n'eft nul, fors toi, qui me fequeure, 
 Ne fecoura, puifques a ton retour. 
 Reviens, amy ; trop longue eft ta demeure ; 
 Elle me fait avoir peine et douleur.' 
 
 Return, my friend, ah ! why this long delay i 
 My poor forfaken heart is forrow's prey : 
 My fervent prayers demand you night and day. 
 Return, my friend, ah ! why this long delay ? 
 Nought can relieve me while my love's away, 
 And nothing ever will till here you ftay. 
 Return, my friend, ah ! why this long delay ? 
 'My poor forfaken heart is forrow's prey. 
 
 RONDEL. 
 
 ' On doit le Temps ainfi prendre qu'il vient. 
 Tout dit que pas ne dure la Fortune. 
 Un Temps fe part, et puis I'autre revient : 
 On doit le Temps ainfi prendre qu'il vient.
 
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 Je me comforte en ce qu'il me fouvlent 
 Que tous les mois avons nouvelle lune : ' 
 On doit le Temps alnfi prendre qu'il vient; 
 Tout dit que pas ne dure la Fortune.' 
 
 Take Time by the forelock, or give it up for ever, 
 Dame Fortune, my friend, is as fickle as the wind ; 
 And hour follows hour like the current of a river, 
 Then meet him and feize him, for Time is bald behind. 
 But my comfort is this, the' Fortune's a deceiver, 
 That the moon ftill continues to wax and to wane, 
 But mifs an occafion, you may labour in vain ; 
 Take Time by the forelock, or he's loft for ever, . 
 
 RONDEL, 
 
 ' De quoi que foit, fe doit renouveller 
 Un joli coeur, le premier jour de Mai,' Sec. 
 
 This and one preceding it have been already quoted in the Memoires 
 I'Academie, 
 
 RONDEL SUR UN DEPART, 
 
 * Le corps s'en va, mais le coeur vous demeure ; 
 Tres chere dame, adieu ju^u' au retour. 
 Trop me lera lointaine me dtmeure. 
 Le corps s'en va, mais le coeur vous demeure; 
 Tres chere tiame, adieu julqu' au retour. 
 Mais duux pen/ez que j'aurai a toute heure^ 
 Adoucira grant part de ma douleur.
 
 Tres chere dame, adieu iufqu' au retour 
 
 Le corps s'en va, mais le coeur vous demeure,* 
 
 Mv body moves, my heart remains with you ; 
 
 Till I return, adieu, enchanting fair ! 
 
 Short as the time will be, my griefs renew : 
 
 My body goes, my heart remains with you ! . 
 
 Till 1 return, adieu, enchanting fair ! 
 
 But cheerful hope difplays the welcome view, 
 
 That cheers with raptures gay my fad delpair„ 
 
 Adieu, till I return, enchanting fdir ! 
 
 My limbs depart, my foul remains with you, . 
 
 RONDEL EN" REPONSE. 
 
 Mon doux ami, adieu jufqu' au revoir ; 
 Qu' amour bientot devers moi vous remaine ! 
 Pour vous ferai loyaument mon devoir. 
 Mon doux ami, adieu jufqu' au revoir, 
 Qu' amour bientot devers moi vous remaine. 
 Si fouhaiter pouvoit eftre veoir, 
 Vous me verriez trente fois la femaine : 
 Mais puifqu' ainfi il n'eft en mon pouvoir, 
 Mon doux ami, adieu jufqu' au revoir, 
 Qu' amour bientot devus moi vous remaine " 
 
 THE ANSWER. 
 
 Adieu my love, till I return, adieu ! 
 Yet ftill with me your conftant image goes. 
 And keeps my heart to Cupid ever true. 
 Adieu my love, till 1 return, adieu !
 
 ■IS 
 
 Still with your lovely form my fancy glows ; 
 Could Hope your welcome prefence ftill renew, 
 We'd meet at morn, and noon, and ev'ning clofe. 
 But fmce our fortune bars the rapt'rous view, 
 Adieu my love, till I return, adieu ! 
 For ftill with me your heavenly image goes«
 
 NOTICES 
 
 Oi* 
 
 WHAT IS REMARKABLE 
 
 IN THE 
 
 [EUZABETHIAN LIBRARY AT BRESILAU. 
 
 DRAWN UP BY ITS INSPECTOR, 
 JOHN EPHRAIM SCHEIBEL, 
 
 SECOKD mSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, A. C. RECTOR OF THE ELISABETHIAN GYMNASIUM, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN BOTH 
 
 UNIVERSITIES, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL PRUSSIAN 
 
 ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN, 
 
 AND ALSO OF THE PRUSSIAN 
 
 LITERARY SOCIETY.
 
 tl 
 
 TO 
 
 HIS MAJESTY 
 
 FREDERIC WILLIAM, KING OF PRUSSIA. 
 
 MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY KING, — ^MOST GRACIOUS SIRE, 
 
 1 TAKE the liberty, with the deepeft reverence, to lay 
 at your Royal Majefty's feet a work, the firft leaves of which contain the 
 hiftory of that Library at Breflau which, a full year before the commencement 
 of your reign, was honoured with your auguft prefence. Such a gracious 
 condefcenfion does this learned eftablifhment everlaffing honour. By me, 
 as at that time the affiftant to my predeceflbr in the infpeftion thereof, 
 it will never be forgotten. The remaining leaves concern John Froiflfart's 
 French Chronicles, the moft celebrated manufcript of which forms the 
 ornament of this library. It has obtained fo much the greater value 
 as your Royal Majefty is pleafed, at fome feafons, to occupy your moft 
 auguft mind in reading the firft volume. Thefe very rare occafions, 
 together with my admiftion, by your moft high appointment, into the 
 Academy of Sciences, happening againft all my expe6tations two years 
 ago, fuffer me to hope for the moft gracious indulgence for my bold 
 undertaking. 
 
 I remain, with the moft profound refpedt, 
 
 Your Royal Majefty's 
 
 Moft obedient humble fervant, 
 
 JOHN EPHRAIM SCHEIBL'L. 
 Bresleu, 22d March, 1794.
 
 ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 iX order to the right judgment of tbe prefent undertakiDg, in particular 
 for the foreign reader, it is neceiTarv. after a preliminary notice of what has 
 occaiioned it, to give, at the fame time, a certain account of tr-is L:::2.ry, 
 becaufe upon it the whole ordering and deiign of thefe notices properly 
 depend ; but wherein L could not onait certain particulars, even circumltances 
 of a perfonal nature, on account of many a native reader, and kx future 
 times, concerning which I very well know, that they are for thofe of litrie 
 confequence. 
 
 Not a few men of fcience, fome of high rank, beCdes the decided 
 advantages which they have witnelTed during the ten vcars it has been 
 under my inlpection, have declared to me that there are maav things 
 extant in it which ought to be more publiclv known. Wi:h :"?".:; this 
 was an indetermined vr\ih; with others, together witli the Ge:e::r.:r.^i::n, 
 even an honourable invitation to me to join them. 
 
 I might, however, have entirely refigned it to a lucceiTor of more ample 
 knowledge of things and better taile, by which he might furniih himleif 
 with a greater ftore of literary expedients, if, by reaibn of my acquaintance 
 with it during the greater part of my life, I had not felt myfelf under aa 
 obhgation to prove my predilection for this excellent inltitution for fcholars 
 in my native town, which has ever procured me the moit ul'eful entertainmenr, 
 and for the freefi ufe of it I am active and thankfiiL Pan has alreadj been
 
 Si 
 
 done by the furtherance of my lord high counfellor K. ZoUner, in Berlin,, 
 ^vho has publiflied my plan in the firfl: part of his Letters on Silefia, page 
 135 to 143, As many may have read thefe, fo it is to me fo much the 
 more agreeable that I can thereby corre6l parts of it which are falfe, 
 partly through disfigured fentences, which were drawn up a year 
 previous to the deceafe of my uncle and predecefTor, re6tor Arlet, the 
 25th January 1784, and afterwards were difperfed in letters, and by verbal 
 com munications. 
 
 This Rehdigerian Library cannot be called the Elifabethian Church 
 Library, though it be likewife kept over the veftry room, hard by the 
 chapel of this metropolitan church ; confequently the edifice alone, 
 fpcaking generally, may be ftyled Elifabcthiayi. This laft is a fchool 
 library belonging to the Elilabethian College, of which the manufcripts,. 
 books, medals, productions of nature and art, by conftant exhibition 
 and ufe in public hours of inftruction, and alfo lending out, lometimes 
 return worn out and damaged ; though a while fince, one of the three 
 regular profeflbrs at the univcrfity was appointed its infpeclor. But. 
 it has been ordered, according to the laft will of its Founder and all his 
 beneficent fucceflbrs, particularly my uncles, for a public library, common 
 to the whole town, equally with thofe at the two other cathedral churches 
 of St Mary Magdalene and St Bernard in the New Town. Its infpector is 
 chofen by the magiftrate on oath. 
 
 It is open on Wedneldays and Saturdays (as that at St Mary Magdalene's 
 onTuefdays and Fridays, and that at St Bernard's on Mondays andThurfdays"! 
 from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Its curiofities are fought for, and upon 
 occafions exhibited. Upon the fpot books may be read, and extracts made 
 from them. Every fcholar of the place, or otherwife refpeclable inhabitant, 
 may obtain, under proper regulations, the loan of books: the like is alio 
 granted to foreign i'cholars, yet with the explicit confent of the magiftrate,. 
 and under the neceffary lecurity. 
 
 In this place I muft mention, that fome have haftily fketched many 
 things concerning it, or rather its whole hiftory, either from unfaithful, 
 memory, after a vifit, at the moft, of two hours, or borrowed them from 
 a book as haftily read, without deriving the leaft information from more.
 
 »5 
 
 ancient fources, tlioiigh even thefe may fland in need of fome corre6lion. 
 But as thefe printed notices extended only to 174-1, it has generally 
 depended on the writers how much they had well remarked : fince 1741, 
 its infpcdtors have drawn them up. In both cafes, it might have been bed 
 if they had applied, either to the infpcrtor himfelf, or to the rector and 
 librarian Klofe, near St Bernard's, of whofe long and particular acquaintance 
 with all our town, church and cloifler libraries, his two volumes of Ne'.v 
 Literary Recreations, and five volumes of Letters from Breflau will be 
 everlafting teftimonies. 
 
 This Library, which arofe merely from legacies, gifts, and private 
 funds, is entire, lubfifts and receives accelTion only through fuch continual 
 and incidental means. It is called the Rehdigerian, from its founder, 
 Thomas von Rehdigeb, auf Sliefa, who, together with his»wide-fpread 
 family, in the fecond half of the fixteenth century, out of zeal for 
 genuine literature, had fo weighty an influence that on that account this 
 family had obtained from foreigners the greateft celebrity for Breflau 
 and Silefia, the demonftrations of which we can read no othervvife than 
 with reverence. He was born the 18th of December, 1541, ftudied at 
 Breflau, in the Elifabethian Univerfity, afterwards at Wittenberg, under 
 Melan6thon and Peucer, laftly at Paris ; where he refolved upon a learned 
 tour, during fitteen years, in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the 
 Netherlands. On his return, having been overfet at Heydelberg, in the end 
 of the year 1572, .and diflocated his arm, he was there unfucceisfully treated: 
 a new cure was undertaken at Cologne, where he died, the 5tli January 
 1576. On this tour, he had, at an expenfe of 17,000 florins, colle6led 
 a mod rare fl:ock of manufcripts, books, medals, ftatues and pictures ; and 
 bequeathed in the following, manner, at Cologne, the 1 8th December 1575 : 
 
 ' Libros meos,' &c. Advertifement, p. 3. 
 
 Already, in the year 1557, had Nicolas Sclneccer, in a lecSlure at. 
 Wittenberg, T. iii. Script. Publ. propof. in Acad. Witt. 1568, 8. p. 113..
 
 ?«6 
 
 ajinounced, with commendation, that John Jacob Fugger had, with great 
 cofl:, founded a hbrary at Augfburg, the care of which he had committed 
 to Hieronymus Wolf; and that the magiftrate of the repubUc of Breflau, 
 pio Jtiidio, was alfo forming a hbrary, by which, however, that at Saint 
 Mary Magdalen's is to be underftood. It is ahb very hkely that Rehdigec, 
 through Selneccer's recommendation, was induced, after Fugger's laudable 
 example, to undertake a fimilar one for Breflau. 
 
 We may, from all circumllances, eafily compreliend why Rehdiger's 
 bequeft, particularly of medals, many of which were of gold, but more 
 efpecially of ftatues, fhould not reach their deftination, in the year 1575, 
 without dilapidation ; for of thefe there is only one bufV of bronze, probably 
 'Livius, together with forae fmall articles, remaining. Rehdiger muft alfo 
 have colle6led fome gems, which, however, are not to be feen. At firll they 
 were all kept packed up in a private houfe, but afterwards, with the confent 
 ■ of the magiftrate, brought into the prefent room, in which the infpedtor of 
 churches and fchools held his theological le6lures; on which account, the 
 Library was transferred to the upper part of the college. In fuch condition it 
 remained, on account of difputes exifting between the family of the founder 
 and the magiftrate, and latterly from the troubles of the thirty years war, 
 lying ufelefs for half a century, until matters were finally fettled, the 17th 
 March 1645; which, without doubt, the celebrated Nicolaus Henelius 
 von Hennenfeld had moftly brought about, — by whofe energy all the 
 relations of the von Rehdiger family, out of fmgular affe6lion towards 
 this worthy city, confented to leave, to one upright counfellor of the city 
 of Breflau, the management of the Library bequeathed by their kinfman 
 Mr Thomas Kt\-\(X\gtx, jure proprietario in the fecureft form and manner, 
 and all their right therein have ceded and delivered up ; but with thefe 
 exprefs conditions : 
 
 ' That this library be kept at the church of St Elifabeth, in the place 
 where it is at prefent, or in another convenient chamber and proper for it; 
 and as, through the liberality of benevolent people, it may be augmented, 
 }et that henceforward it be no otherwife called than Rehdigerian. 
 
 ' 2. That he fet up an honourable inlcription to tlie memory of the 
 Founder, together with his coat of arms
 
 87 
 
 * S. That he revife the books and things appertaining to it according 
 to the exifting catalogue, note how the fame are found, and furnifli 
 tranfcripts of it, 
 
 ' 4. That he demand no recompence from the family on account of the 
 chamber hitherto hired, nor yet any for the future. 
 
 * 5. A trufty perfon fhall be appointed, to whom the care of the 
 Library may be committed, and who Ihall be maintained at the charge of. 
 the Repubhc, without coft to the family.' 
 
 We have formerly, without finding fault, pafled into the Tlieological • 
 Auditory, al^d confequently to the firft place where the Library was kept, 
 up a particular winding ftaircafe over the choir, through the door now leading 
 thereto, juft as is ftill the way to the Library in the Magdalen Church. 
 Afterwards, on account of its augmentation, and in order to make room 
 for induftrious readers, at the inftance and charge of a bcnef;i6tor, to me 
 unknown, in the years 1697, 1698, the Bench Chapel hard by the veftry 
 room was fitted as a new hall, and has been well united with 
 the old one by breaking through the partition-wall and terminating it 
 with a large bow: the outward wall-pillar has been ftrengtheneJ, and in 
 this fore part of the hall a new door has been fet up, in the choir, over 
 the porch hard by this chapel. After that, in the year 1748, the library 
 of the baron von Hund was depofited in this fore part of the hall, and 
 the room over the porch only remained for readers ; fo the prefent Library 
 became at once very confiderable, and decorated infide and -out with feveral 
 ornamental falfe doors, with the infcription bibliotheca pvblica, together 
 with the Breflau W above it. Laftly, in the year 17 85, the walls in this. 
 room were made ufe of as a repofitory for the Arletilh Collection. 
 
 The infcription meationed in the agreement, is engraved on a copper plate, 
 with letters of gold inlaid ; and as it probably had been at firfl: affixed to 
 the wall which afterwards was broken through, the magiftrate, in the year 
 1698, caufed it to be decorated and affixed to the wall in the fore part of 
 the hall, on the right-hand fide of the window, together with the Founder's 
 coat of arms above it, and his effigy beneath. It is likewile to be read 
 elfewhere in print; but as Lhave copied it accurately, it belongs properly 
 to this place.
 
 M 
 
 EIBLIOTHECA 
 
 QVAM CERNIS LECTOR 
 
 ERUDITA INDUSTRIA 
 
 NOBILISSIMI 
 
 THOM^ A REHDIGER ET SLISA 
 
 CUJUS ELOGIA 
 
 ANGUSTUM HOC AES NON CAPIT 
 
 FELICITER CREVIT 
 
 ET A. C. CID ID LXXVI. 
 
 VIGORE TABULARUM TESTAMENTI 
 
 UT PROENSI ANIMI ERGA LITERATUM ORBEM 
 
 CHARACTER EXISTAT 
 
 AD PUBLICOS USUS DESTINATA 
 
 TANDEM UNANIMI CONSENSU 
 
 CLARissiMiE REHDIGERORUM famili^ 
 
 REIPUBLIC^ 
 
 HOC PACTO PROPRIA CESSIT 
 
 UT QUOCUNQUE MODO AUCTA REHDIGERIANA 
 
 SEMPER AUDIAT 
 
 IN COMMODO AC SECURO LOCO ASSERVETUR 
 
 ET SUB CURA FIDI BIBLIOTHEC ARII 
 
 INDIGENT ET ADVENjE PATEAT 
 
 QUEM ADFECTUM NOBILISSIMI GENTIS 
 
 GRATO SECUM VOLUTANS PECTORE 
 
 VRATISLAVIA 
 
 HOC MONUMENTUM FIERI CURAVIT 
 
 VIGEAT MEMORIA REHDIGERIANA. 
 
 ET pBI LECTOR 
 
 EGREGIUM HOC EXEMPLUM 
 
 AD SIMILIA MUNIFIC^ CHARITATIS OFFICIA 
 
 SIT INCITAMENTO 
 
 ANN. CHR. 
 
 CIO lOCLX.
 
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 The magiftrate caufed the folemn opening of the Library, as a public 
 -one, to he made known by a card of invitation, the 2d Oelober 1661 ; 
 after which, on the 4th 06lobcr, profelTor John Gebhard, as firft-elecled 
 'overleer, delivered a latin oration, which with that under the addrcfs, Encaenia 
 Biblioth. Rehdig. was printed on fix fheets in quarto. lie therein complains 
 of the lofs which the Rehdigerian ftock has fuffered in medals, ftatues, and 
 in a manufcript of Apthonius, — and on the other hand commends thofe, 
 fome by name, who have already, before the opening of the Library, 
 augmented it with books, medals and other articles. 
 
 This oration is the ground- work of its hiftory; in which, however, many 
 fa6ts from the great colle6lion extant of the letters of the founder and his 
 contemporaries fhould have been explained. The following are taken from 
 Rc6lorGottlobKrantzMemorabilia Biblioth. publ.Elifab.Wratill. a Fundatore 
 celeb. Rehdig. didlas 16.99, quarto; one the 15th May 1698, A£lus Oratorius 
 held after the more ancient cuftom ; (John David Kdhlers) Silcfian Choice 
 Chronicle, part IT, French and Latin, 1714, o6lavo, p. 429 — 450; D. 
 John Chriflopher Kundmanns Promptuarium rerum natural, et artificial. 
 Wratjflavienfe 1726, quarto, p. 22. 40; Daniel Gomolks (or rather his 
 learned fons D. Kundmanns, Redlor Stiefs, Pror. Runges, &c.) Breflau 
 curiofities Part L third edition, 1733, o6lavo, p. 168. 170. part IL p. 19. 
 24. finally D. Kundmann's German Schools, particularly Silefian, with 
 their colledlions of books and medals, 1741, quarto, p. 346. 355. in which, 
 however, fome things want correction. 
 
 Notices, concerning its augmentation by legacies and prefents, have 
 been entered, in two volumes, in chronological order. The oldefl: prefent 
 is the edition of Cicero, Lyons 1578, two volumes folio, from a citizen's 
 widow, Anna Herzbergerin, born at Straufiln, in the year 1582. Thefe 
 notices then commence from 1646, and have been accurately carried 
 on till 1746, without being in the leaft ungrateful for the tokens of 
 many others who, in and out of Breflau and Silefia, have augmented 
 and dill augment this Library, with an uncommon emulation, through 
 individual prefents, and whofe names Ihall occafionally be made 
 .known.
 
 90 
 
 In the year 1659, Matthias Machner, notary, prefented to it fome 
 written and printed books : fome were alio given after his deceafe (not his 
 library, as it ftands in Kundmann's German Schools, page 353.) 
 
 In the years 1663, 1C64, from Auguftus duke of Brunfvvick and 
 Lunenburg, fome writings and other books. 
 
 In January 1 664, the library of Chryfoftom Schulz, firft fchoppenfchreiber 
 (that is, town clerk), confifting of about a thoufand volumes. 
 
 The 2d June 1689, the truly exquifite library of Albert von Sebifch, 
 chief of the vermilion company, of theological, juridical, philological^ 
 and efpecially hiftorical and mathematical books ; together with, in the 
 opinion of a very great connoifleur, and poflTcflbr of a fimilar confiderable 
 ftock, a very preferable colle6lion of upwards of 12,500 prints in 
 parchment covers, befidcs rare drawings, manufcripts, mathematical 
 inftruments, minerals and fhells. With propriety, this excellent ftock of 
 books is kept together. 
 
 In the year 1690, from John Sigifmund von Haunold, latterly prefident 
 of the council, one of the moft beneficent patrons of real fcholars, books, 
 minerals, medals and other curious articles. 
 
 In the year 1694, a grand colle6lion of minerals from Hungary, and 
 from Hartz, &c. were prefented, — and, in purfuance of a ftrange idea, a 
 wooden elephant, which carried a fourfold pyramid three yards high with 
 compartments, was covered and adorned with them. Finally, after the 
 deceafe of the faid John Sigifmund, on the 6th May 1711, books, natural 
 curiofities, very remarkable manufcripts, and other rarities were brought 
 hither. An excellent Ecce Homo of George Pens, a difciple of Diirer, on 
 wood, which, as far as I recolledt rightly, was, many years before, copied for 
 the king Frederic II. 
 
 In the year 1698, on occafon of the faid enlargement of the fore part 
 of the hall, an order was made, that 12 rix-dollars (hould be ifTued annually 
 from the infpe(5lor's office for the augmentation of the Sebifh, and indeed 
 of the mathematical books. Then were purchafed, for inltance, Leupold's 
 Theatra Mach. with continuations, Sturm's archite6tural works, the Machines 
 Approuvecs, the works of Bernouilli, Hugens, Mariette, Leibnitz, Folard's
 
 91 
 
 Polybius, the Cometography of Pingre, Du Sejour's Traite Anal. Ba'iUy's 
 Hift. d'Aftr. and the like, the Peterfburg Commentarii complete. 
 
 In this very year had lady Johanna Sufanna, of the family of Riedel 
 and Leivenftern, widow of Frederic von Ohl and Adlerfkron, an eminent 
 counfellor of this place, fet apart a capital of 500 dollars, Silefian currency, 
 for the procuring of hiftorical books: with the intereft of which, 20 rix 
 dollars yearly, books are purchafed by little and little, according to the 
 dire6tions of the founder, bound in leather, decorated with the proper 
 efcutcheon, and (land apart. Amongfl others, for inftance, the States 
 Chancery, with Reufles' Continuation, the Ceremonies Relig. Montfaucon's 
 Antiqu. expl. Ugolinis Thef Antiq. Hebr. Polenis Thef. Niceron's 
 Memoires, the Hift. et Mem. de I'Acad. de Berlin, Commentarii Soc. 
 Reg. Sc. Gotting. From the founder, a precious exemplar of the Weimar 
 Bible of 164-4, bound, with copious illuminated prints; alfo, for frequent 
 infpe6lion, both the heads of Peter and Paul, embroidered with filk. To 
 the overfeer fhe has left four dollars Silefian, with other two additional 
 rix-dollars yearly. 
 
 Since the 20th June 1699, in the coui-fe of fome years, were prefented 
 from Daniel Erneft Heuglin, merchant in Amfterdam, French, Englifli^ 
 Dutch books and medals. 
 
 The 20th January 1701, from Chriftopher Bertermann, a merchant, the 
 firft 19 volumes of the A6ts of the Saints, purchafed from the Carpzovilli 
 Library at Leipzig. The continuations, up to the moft recent, have been 
 chiefly procured out of the Strelitzifli legacy. 
 
 The 23d Auguft 1706, the magiftrate augmented the Ubrary with a good 
 number of fine old manufcripts and printed books. 
 
 The 12th January 1707, from Magnus Antonius von Gotz, the excellent 
 likenefs of a greek bifhop in half length, from Rembrant. 
 
 In this fame year, a colle6lion of Ihells and infe6ts was brought hither, 
 from contributions gathered from the famous cabinet of Levin Vincent at 
 Amfterdam : this, in 12 boxes, was purchafed for 90 dutch florins, or 4^ 
 rix-dollars, 24 fgl. But as formerly more inquiry was made after books 
 than after butterflies, the infpedtor neglected caring for the prefervation of the
 
 92 
 
 infecls, of which few only have been preferved : the fame alfo may be fald 
 of the fnakes. The fhells are beautiful : many of them, in the opinion of 
 connoiffeurs, rare. 
 
 In the year 1712, the foundation of the prefident of the council, Henry 
 von Rcichel und Schmoltz, and his confort, Anna Dorothea, of the family 
 Von Burghart und Ldwenburg, of 1000 dollars Silefian, by which very 
 confiderable legacy an intereft arifes of 40 rix-dollars a-year. In the mean time 
 hiftorical works are procured, and being bound in parchment with a title, are 
 decorated with both their arms : all of which ftand apart. Confiderable 
 works amongft them are indeed fufficiently known : Rymer's A6la Angl. 
 Hergott's works, Schopflins Abftatia ill. et dipl. Canifii, MarteneCollecliones, 
 Du Halde, Daniel, Muratori Script. Rer. Italic, Chaufepie Di6lion. Concilia 
 Germaniae, Khevenhiiller, the Allg. Reifen, Tiefenthaler complete, the 
 works of the Bavarian, Palatini, Bohemian Societies of Knowledge, &c. 
 
 The 15th Aiiguft 1713, a beautiful colle6lion of ihells in a peculiar 
 repofitory of 10 drawers, together, wiih fome larger ones, were given by 
 George Moritz von Hoffmannfwaldau, captain-lieutenant. 
 
 The 14th Augufir 1724j feveral unbound works were the bequefl of 
 Servatius von Reichel, the bed of which have been bound. 
 
 In the fame year, the foundation of Andrew Strelitz, candidate of 
 both laws, of 12 rix-dollars, annually for procuring one or 7nore good 
 booh. He was the founder of the prolefibrlhips of all the mathematical 
 fciences at both univerfities, for fix hours weekly, and has fet apart for 
 inftruments 10 rix-dollars yearly, which, according to his appointment, 
 are to be kept in this Library. Some of them ferve for ornaments ; for 
 inftance, a model of the folar fyftem, both globes, celcitial and terreftnal, 
 by Forten : the reft, for want of room, are kept in the fchool-buildings, 
 an air-pump, a quadrant, telel'copes with ftands, &c. Of books there 
 have been purchaled the Continuations of the A6t. San6t. Blanchini 
 Evangeliarium, Fabronii Vitas Italorum, Montfaucon's Biblioth. MSS. 
 Bibl. Coiflin. &c. 
 
 The 30th Auo-uft 1727, the widow of Hermann Roth von Rothenfel 
 gave the Library a numerous coUediou of Ciigraved fcals.
 
 9S 
 
 The 2d November 1728, the very ufeful hiftorical, but principally 
 gcnealoi':Ical, library, of John Godfrey von Riemer und Riemberg, count of 
 the empire, Promnitz-Pknilh counfellor and deputy to the public alTcmblies, 
 together with fevcral manufcrlpts regarding the Silefian Hiftory, were 
 prelented, which all ftand apart. 
 
 The 16th06lober 1733, the Seel, baron von Wolf fent over 15 volumes 
 of his works neatly bound, — and this donation he forwarded from Marpurg. 
 That nothing elfe followed from Halle was not his fault. 
 
 The i;4th March 1735, the principal theological books of the infpe6tor 
 George Teubner, among them the London Polyglot, Bibliotheca Patrum, 
 Concilia, Baronius, good editions of the fathers of the church, and the 
 like. 
 
 173(7, our library was to have been augmented with fomething from 
 Adam Ebertus, profelTor of fpecial law at Frankfort on the Oder, which,, 
 however, was not done. The more immediate notice of this defcrves to be 
 occafionally brought into converfation, . 
 
 In the year 1748 it received, in intrinfic value and exterior beauty, a 
 very important augmentation, from the library of the baron Hildebrand 
 Rudolph von Hund auf Wirbitz, which he had expreflly collected for 
 fupplying ours. Among thefe books were the Thefauri Antiqu. of Grxvius, 
 Gronovius, Sallengre, tlie Theatr. Europ. Grasvii Antiquitates Italia:^, 
 Lambecii Comment, the firft edition of Khevenhiilcr, Lianig's works, the 
 Merianilli Defcription of Places, the Blasuifh Atlas, feveral accounts of 
 Voyages, Kohler's works, Lochner's Diverting Medallill:, maps, fome 
 volumes of excellent prints, feveral accounts of Travels, Memoirs, &c. the 
 moft in french bindings. 
 
 The 10th September 1750, one-half of the feledled library of Michael 
 Gottlieb von Liebenau, an eminent prefident of the council and of fchools, 
 were prcfented, raoftly new french and Italian works, which he had purchafcd 
 on his travels ; amongft them Thuanus, French, 16 volumes, Giornalc de 
 Lettcrati, the works of Bonanni, and others. The other half v»'as given 
 to the Mary Magdalene Library. 
 
 The 16th February 1754, were received D. John Chriftian Glafer's 
 Philofophical Collection, particularly phyfico-thcological books, for ufe,
 
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 on account of two German pliyfico-theological orations Inftituted by him, 
 -which will be held by the EUfabethian heads of colleges after the conclufion 
 of the prefent fpring examination. His medicinal books the library of the 
 Mary Magdalene has obtained *. 
 
 17<53. Manufcripts of Chriflian Theophilus von Riemer und Riemberg, 
 an eminent counfellor and grand chamberlain, were gained refpedting the 
 Silefian, efpecially the Breflau Hiflory of his own time. 
 
 The 8th Auguft, D. Charles William Sach's numerous colle6tion of 
 books refpe6ling the Silefian Hiflory, with important manufcripts. 
 
 1765. All the manulcripts of re6lor Martin Hank, from the heir of his 
 grandfon, John Samuel Hank, which are of great importance to the Silefian 
 Hiflory. 
 
 On the 25th January 1784, from my uncle's inheritance, by my 
 grandfather, M. Cal'par Arlet, by no means for fuch purpofe commenced, 
 by him and with great expenfe augmented, but with a quite different intent. 
 the Library received a colle(5lion of Silefian medals, about 1300 rix-dollars 
 
 * His brother-in-law, re6tor Habicht, fell heir to his mathematical books and inftruments ; but 
 what he had in pofleflion of natural curiofities, medals, prints, and other valuable articles, which had 
 been defcribed in Gomolk's Breflau Curiofities, part ii. p. 113- 123, were fent to his only brother 
 John Chriftopher Glafer Saxon Ele6lor, counfellor at war, and profelTor of madiematical, 
 military and oeconomical fciences in the Eagle Corps of Cadets at Drefdcn, as heir-at-law. The 
 mother of both diefe brothers was the fifter of my grandfather, M. Jeremiah Scheibel. Kr. R. 
 Glafer died alfo in celibacy, like my own uncle, the 4th September 1733, and had conftituted me as 
 his heir, in the moft ample manner. So principally his mathematical library, and his brother's 
 colleftion, fhould have reverted to me and to tliis place. For he had already laid fo good a 
 foundation at Jena and Halle, for the fake of die political mathematics, as he called drem, that 
 for their tranfport from Halle to Drefden, he ihould have petitioned t!ie king, Auguftus II. for a 
 relay of horfes. In the year 1736, he wrote concerning it in his Lettres a trois Dcmandes, it may 
 be ' aflez riche,' and ' je poflede une bibliothequc fort complete de cette forte de livres.' This library 
 ■was, after his deceafe, legally valued at 1700 rix-dollars. It was, however, after a twenty years 
 law-fuit, for I mufl: wade through all poffible difficulties up to the rcfiifed revifion, confirmed to me 
 on oath; and I declare, that in fuch library, rated at 1700 rix-dollars, a library of 6000 rix-dollars 
 value was contained, which Glafer, for fuch value, had taken, &:c. The hiftory of fuch a private 
 library mud liere occafionally by me be made more known, as a warning for every one upon Jlmilar 
 occafions.
 
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 m intrinfic value, together with an annual legacy of 20 rlx-doUars for their 
 augmentation, alfo 10 rix-dollars for the infpedlor (whofc whole income, 
 therefore, amounts at prefent to 69 and l-5th rix-dollars); wherefore an 
 exemplar of the mod unfortunately renowned medal 33 and l-3d ducats 
 heavy, which he caufed to be ftruck in honour to king Frederic II. is to my 
 own detriment come, concerning which the narrative, quite extorted from 
 me, is to be read in the Journal for Germany 1787. Further from his library, 
 all the printed and written works of Arconatus, Colerus, von Czepko, Dach, 
 Opitz, Tfcherning, without difpute the moft complete colle6tion of all our 
 fehool Programmata; books on medals, very fcarce fmgle books, and copies 
 of fuch ; a numerous collection of the more modern Latin poets, entire works, 
 and flill more numerous fmgle poems ; Latin orators ; Latin letter-writers ; 
 printed and manufcript chymical and alchymical works; Silefian papers 
 for the completion of D. Sach's colle6lion, in particular genealogical works, 
 many of thefe from the bequefl of Paft. Ezechiel, out of which I have arranged 
 in a particular repofitory a feries of Silefian genealogical archives, as may be 
 learnt from the Silefian provincial papers, with the refult, that through 
 the contributions of monf. the count of Burghaufs and Laafen, and of the 
 privy counlellor monf. von Miitzfchepfahl, a very good beginning for its 
 augmentation has been made. 
 
 1789, the 16th May, from the cabinet-counfcllor, Mr Ulber fenior, a 
 beautiful manufcript of Vitruvius; oa the 29th, one of Boetius: both on 
 vellum. 
 
 1792. From the property left by the advocate Jacob Honifch, by mere 
 verbal prefcription, from his heirs, very good manufcripts refpecting the 
 Silefian Hiflory, according to the free choice left to me. 
 
 From the cabinet-counfellor Mr Heyne at Gottingen, the laft fplendid 
 edition of his Virgil, printed in Germany, by way of acknowledgment for 
 fix volumes of manufcripts of Homer lent him. 
 
 1793, the 2111 Auguft, from the widower Fr. Selenkin, the Scheuchzer 
 Bible, in four volumes. 
 
 It fell to the lot of this Library, on the 27th April in the year 1762, to 
 receive the very rare felicity of a vifit from his majcfty the now reigning
 
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 king, as crown prince; and on the yd December 1778, the firfl: volunre 
 of the manufcript of Froiflart's Chronicles was dehvered to his moft exalted 
 felf hy my uncle: I have c^iven a circumftantial account thereof in a hiftory 
 of his life edited by me in 1789. 
 
 Mention is alio made in the letters of the counfellor of the fuperior 
 confftory, M. Zollner, part i. page 138, of the prefents to the Library of 
 printed books and writings from his ejicellency the count of Hertzberg. 
 
 The whole flock of manufcripts amounts to about 800 volumes and 
 packets, the printed works to not quite 20,000 volumes, by reafon of the 
 niany folios; of prints, about 1 5,000 leaves, befides thofe in the forementioned 
 104 volumes, as well as many others; for, fince 1733, it has not all yet been 
 accurately enumerated. This moft highly neceflary work confifted, at firft, 
 of two entirely new catalogues concerning the printed works : it is true the 
 fucceflbr of Pror. Leiffner, the Seel. liabicht, undertook a continuation 
 iwith exemplary zeal : he proceeded, however, no farther than the half, 
 as death carried him off in his younger years. Their continuation and 
 completion was not my uncle's bufmefs: it has, therefore, fallen to my 
 own patriotifm : I hope, however, with God's help, to finilh it, after what 
 1 have a while fince undertaken, — unlefs I Ihall be able to augment the 
 Library with a new ftore of the choiceft works, for which there is yet room 
 enough ready. 
 
 In the middle of the chief apartment, which is lighted by four church 
 windows, ftand nine large free repofitories, each of feven compartments 
 and three fub-divifions. The recefles in the walls are at prefent furniflied 
 with four of the fame height, namely, two fmaller and two larger 
 clofed repofitories, three open repofitories, and under the windows are 
 feveral others. In the fore part of the hall, with a window of the 
 fame fize, ftands a large free repofitory ; in the walls, and under the 
 window, are a very large one, and fix others. The Arletifh ftore ftands in 
 two clofed. repofitories, the Silefian Genealogical Archives in a third, in the 
 choir over the hall. 
 
 The repofitories in both halls are of oaken wood, decorated according 
 tx) the. prevailing tafte of various times, and with the portraits and other
 
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 pi6lurcs, hung up wherever there was an empty place, give to the Library, 
 to which Hght is no where wanting, a pleafing appearance. 
 
 Over the infide doors, a particular place has been appointed for the 
 portraits of the infpc6lors : (1.) ProfelTor John Gebhard's, 1661-1G8I, 
 deceafed the 21ft March ; (2.) Redor Martin Hanks, 1681-1709, deceafcd 
 the 21ft April; (3.) Reftor Timothy Krantz's, 1709-1733, deceafed the 
 25th December; (4.) Pro-re6tor John Theophilus Deichfels, 1734-171-6, 
 who refigned his office, deceafed 1750; (5.) Pro-rector M. Godfrey 
 IMaximihan Leiflhers, 1746-1753, deceafed the ift November; (C.) I'fcctor 
 and Strelitz Profeflbr of Mathematics and Natural Philofophy M. Chriftiaa 
 Theophilus Habichts, 1753-1761, deceafed the 11th Oaobcr; (7.) Reaor 
 John Cafpar Arlcts, 1761-1784^ deceafed the 25th January. 
 
 In fuch a Library, which has been founded upon no common plan, 
 every complaint about what does not yet exift in it muft be omitted ; and 
 with only 84 rix-dollars of yearly legacies for the augmentation, we muft 
 proceed very cEconomically, and fuitably to the funds. According to 
 Cicero, Tufc. Quasft. i. 56. ' Carere fignificat, egere eo, quod habere 
 velis, ineft enim velle in carendo.' Soon after that, however, ' Dicitur 
 etiam carere, quum alit]uid non habeas, et non habere te fentias, etiamfi id 
 facile patiare.' That many books are deficient to the Library is very 
 clear ; but what it wants its infpedtor has to determine, fuitably to the 
 funds. It wants, for inftance, the works of Martin on Ihells, thereby 
 to arrange the great multitude it poflefTes ; but not Buffon's Natural 
 Hiftory with coloured plates. It is fufficient that, like the reft of our 
 public libraries, it is furniihed with many old, and even new, means of 
 affiftancc from amateurs and connoifleurs, vainly fought for in moft of the 
 newly-founded private libraries, and fo much good has thereupon enfued 
 to foreign ones; for inftance, within my remembrance to thofe of the baron 
 von Ritlitz, provoft Jachmann, provoft Nimptfch, of the Ecclef. and of 
 the re6lor Weinifch, Ecclef. Tfchepe, deacon Hanke, fecretary Magufch^.
 
 D. Rofc, D. Margenbefler, reaor Arlet, reftor Habicht, and others'. 
 Concerning them all we can only inquire at Vienna, Drefden, Gottingen, 
 Wolfenbiittel, &c. We content ourfelves, in this our place, that we have 
 many a thing which is very good, and are not indifferent when we can at 
 times aflift foreigners with articles they have not. 
 
 To further that ufe is the defign of this tafk. I might have been able 
 to make it lighter to myfelf, if I had tranflated Krantze's two fohos on 
 Manufcripts and Hiftorians, written in Latin, and fupplied them with 
 fugitive additions, of both which works copies are ftill extant in private 
 colle6lions, as monuments of former zeal in our Gymnafia for fuch literature. 
 Connoiffeurs alone know, that in their original Ifiape, they are not for the 
 prefent times, in which fuch like learning on the one fide has gained much, 
 but on the other has alfo loft greatly; for example, fuch a periodical work 
 as the A6la Eruditorum, a continuation from Niceron, and in his manner. 
 Hence, likcwife, it was neceffary for me to confider whether both works be 
 equally ufeful as primary fources. Still lefs could I refolve, as fome willied 
 it, to edit a general alphabetical catalogue, or at leaft a fyftematical one, 
 after the manner of the Frankifh one of the Biinauiih Library, and its 
 continuation, by the cabinet couniellor Mr Adelung, fo much approved 
 by every librarian and philologilr. Were I willing to take upon me to 
 make the Library more known, it would be neceifary for me to dwell upon 
 fmgle curiofities, and confine myfelf merely to inch. 
 
 To this Library belongs, firft, the important ftock colle6led by its. 
 founder, of bocks and other manufcripts, by w hofe gift it has ever been 
 reckoned the chiefeft in Germany; and this preference of it the late private 
 fccretary and librarian Franke at Drelden, a dilcerning connoilfeur of the 
 firft raiik, related to me by word of mouth twenty years ago. '1 he 
 manufcripts I ifiall delcribe in the firft fedion. In the fecond, I Ihall give 
 notices of truly remarkable printed books, of which hitherto the defcriptions 
 are very fcanty and difikf isfa6tory. 
 
 According to this plan, 1 have, in the prefent article, made a beginning 
 with a defcription of the manuicript of Froilfart's Chronicle. This required, 
 on account of very peculiar circumltances, an amplification, fuch as is not 
 to be expe6led in others. It was natural that, in the fecond fection, 1 fhould
 
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 bring together all which is extant of it in the printed editions, and from 
 other books which refer to this celebrated work. From thefe I have collated 
 as much as lay out of view in the Library, and at hand in my own collection, 
 whild J am well aware that, in compofing fuch notices, I muft be far inferior 
 to other writers on rare and remarkable books, Baumgartcn, Clement, Denis, 
 Freytag, Gotze, Mafch, Panzer, Riedercr, Strobet; and I alfo know that 
 howfoever we may guard againlt literary folecilms, I Ihall never be free 
 from defedts, as may be learnt from mofl: of the criticifms on recent literary 
 works. Hence if I fhould difcover fuch defe6ls as in this piece have already 
 appeared after the firft: eight Iheets were printed off, additions muft be 
 made. 
 
 Should my undertaking find favour, I am refolved to continue thefc 
 Notices half yearly, without the purchafers needing to dread a voluminous 
 work. Laftly, if it pleafe meflieurs my colleagues in the infpection of libraries 
 in our city, and elfewhere in Silefia, to inform me of any unnoticed additions 
 to the editions of Froiflart, I Ihall make the requifite ufe thereof in each next 
 following article, with the moft obliging thanks. 
 
 JOHN EPHRAIM SCHEIBEL. 
 
 JBreslau, the 2lsi January 1794.
 
 PART I. 
 
 MA NUSCRIPTS. 
 
 I. 
 
 L^Y commence la table des 
 Rubrices de ce premier 
 volume des croniques 
 de France, d'Angleterre, d'Allemaigne, 
 de Flandres, et d'oultre les monts, 
 Jadis compilees au commandement 
 d'aucuns roys et princes, par fire 
 Jehan Froiflart, en fon temps pbre 
 et chanoine de Chymay en Haynau, 
 Et premierement 
 
 Prologue declarant a quy ce 
 prefent volume appartient. 
 
 Cy commence le premier volume 
 des croniques, &c. 
 
 Four volumes, in large folio, on vellum. 
 
 This is the beginning of the moft celebrated manufcript in the Library,, 
 which I muft defcribe circumftantially ; whereby it may be known, at leafl 
 fo long as a copy of this Notice ihall remain, in what ftate it came under 
 my infpedion in the year 1784.
 
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 Anthony the tall, baflard of Burgundy, natural Ion of Philip the good, 
 duke of Burgundy, born 1 1'il, deceafed 1504, caufed it to be compofed. 
 His genealogical table is in James William Imhof 's Excellentium Famiiiarum 
 in Gallia genealogiis, Nnrimb. 1687. Fol. Claff. I. Famil. Reg. Tab. XIV. 
 &c. — the hiftory of his life in Moreri, and ellewhere. John David Kohler 
 informs us, in his DiiT. de Carolo Bellicofo ultimo Burgundiae duce, recuf. 
 Altorf. 1129 p. 8.9, 90. that this Anthony of Burgundy founded a very 
 famous library at la Roche in Ardennervvald, now forming part of Aultrian 
 Luxemburg, whence our manufcript, which he had often leen *, tOi^ether 
 with one fimilar to it on vellum rerpe6ling the genealogy oF the houle of 
 Burgundy, had been faved, as if from fhipwreck ; of which, however, one 
 number has been loft. From this Burgundian Library, the Founder of 
 ours obtained it, and alfo another manulcript, as beautiful, of Valerius 
 Maximus, in two common-fized folios on vellum, which in due time will 
 be defcribed. No notice concerning it has hitherto reached me but what 
 Kohler mentions. 
 
 The covers of the volumes are oaken boards, half an inch thick, on 
 which are ftill fmall remains of the black velvet they have been covered 
 with. Each is enchafed at the four corners with fmall itrong plates, Ihod 
 with five large flat circular boffes, together with two broad clafps, all of 
 brafs that had been gilt. Between the upper bolles of each fore cover, 
 on a flip of vellum faftened in a fmall re6langular brazen frame, (lands the 
 infcription, ' Premier volume de FroifTart,' &c. On all thefe plates, claips, 
 borders of the boffes, and frames, is engraved the motto of Anthony of 
 Burgundy, nul ne sy frote : on the middlemoft bofs, the Burgundy 
 arms, divided obliquely by a line, as a token of the illegitimate birth, and 
 furrounded with the chain of the order of the golden fleece ; on each of 
 the reft, a coat of mail and helmet. The leaves are gilt. It is very evident 
 that fuch bindings only deferve to be defcribed. 
 
 * As tutor to the baron von Stralilenlieini, plenipotentiary to tlie king of Sweden. The Notice 
 of the Library in the Silefian Seleft Clironicle, which tliis veiy ufeful writer has edited, without his 
 name, in two 8vo volumes, is one of the beft.
 
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 Vellum was iinivcrfally the moft fought after in our ancient fine 
 books. The writing is Gothic, very clean through all the volumes, 
 with fome abhreviations ; and when we have made ourlelves acquainted 
 with the old French orthography, through but one couple of pages, it 
 may be eafily read. The ink is beautifully black, but in fome places 
 become pale, partly of itfelf, partly where the leaves formerly, through 
 inconfiderate laying up, have received creafes, which by no method 
 known to me can be brought out. All the pages are divided into 
 columns, each column three inches and a half broad, and lengthways 
 with fine pale red lines divided into 36 lines ; each of thcfc divifions 
 into three lines and one-half. Every leaf is fixteen inches and a half 
 long, one foot broad (I'^aris meafure), with broad margins hard by the 
 cutting length-ways, and underneath. All the initial letters of the 
 chapters, and alfo of the fmaller fedtions frequently of a few lines, 
 even in each of the volumes the prefixed contents of the chapters are 
 quadrilaterally bordered, coloured, and magnificently gilt and burniihed. 
 In the text, the fpaces at the end of fmaller fe6lions are filled up with 
 fuch like rectangular decorations. Jn proper names, alfo the beginnings 
 of periods, the capital letters have not all been accurately employed : it is 
 alfo not wholly free from actual miftakes. Of marks of diitin6lion, Ibmetimes 
 a larger point is only admitted, moft frequently a very fine comma. Over 
 the / an oblique ftroke, as fine, is often mifling, which univerfally reprefented 
 the place of the points. The apoftrophe has not at all been ufed. 
 
 The numerous paintings, which give to this manufcript the greateft 
 ornament, by means of fine white paper interleaved, though it is incredible 
 how innumerably they exhibit themfelves, and have alfo been in part 
 much ufed, and even mifufed, are very well preferved. They are admired 
 by all connoiffeurs and artifts, on account of the very fine ftrokes of the 
 pencil, the lively colours, accurate drawing, partly grey on a grey ground, 
 with men and horfes (the vii'ages, different drefllngs and houiings, 
 excepted), though alfo very much fpotted, and with flight obfervance 
 of the rules of a rigid perfpe£live. The largeft take up one-third of 
 a column, with one fingle, and at the fame time flat, gilt frame, fome. 
 half a page, in which cale the whole is encompaflld with Arabefques full of:
 
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 entire figures of men or animals in ftrange poftures, and alfo fome ftriking 
 falling figures. The moft of this kind are at the bottom of the page, — 
 in fome at tlie fide, when full ; alfo the Burgundy arms, divided obliquely 
 by a red ftroke, with the chain of the order ; an owl on the helmet, which 
 in books of heraldry is wanting, and two bears as fupporters : at the fide, 
 coats of mail and enfigns, — on thefe the above-mentioned motto. All are 
 manifeflly painted by feveral artifts. In the firft volume the moft are very 
 bad, not being reckoned of beautiful colouring : in the remaining three 
 volumes, on the contrary, fo much the more excellent ; and on account of 
 the extremely fine ftrokes of gold every where brought in for heightening 
 the light, very remarkable. 
 
 Of FroifTart's life we find a (hort account in the General Scholar's 
 Lexicon, from the there noticed fources, particularly Bayle's Dictionn. t. ii. 
 p. 5 1 2, 513. ed. 1 730. Monfieur de la Curne de St Palaye, in the INIemoires 
 de I'Academie des Infcriptions, has given the moft circumftantial from the 
 Chronicle itfelf and his unprinted poems, from other fources, and from 
 Chaufepie Di6fionn. t. ii. p. 87, 91. verbatim, and by abridgment; 
 Mr Sinner in Catalogo Codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Bernenfis, t. ii. p. 220, 
 230 ; Hamberger in the fourth part of the Notices, p. 639, 643. As I 
 have not the Memoirs themfelves at hand, fo I have only been able, in the 
 following Iketch of the moft remarkai Je circumftances of his life, to avail 
 myfelf of the abridgment from them in the catalogues of Chaufepie and 
 Mr Sinner. 
 
 John FroifTart, prieft, canon and treafurer, in the collegiate church at 
 Chimay in Ilainault, was born at Valenciennes about the year 1337. 
 With all the care which at other times he has taken in the relation of the 
 minuteft circumftances of his life, he has mentioned nothing concerning 
 bis defcent. We can conje6lure only from one place in his poems, that 
 his father \\^as called Thomas, and was a blazoner of arms. He already 
 fliewed in his youth a ruling pafilon for divxrfions and pleafures : in the 
 fequel, his conftant bias for the chace, mufic, fociety, dancing, wine 
 and love, fufFcred itfelf to be moderated by his greater prcdilcdtion for 
 perfecting an accurate hiftory of his time, which he undertook in the 
 twentieth year of his age, at the requeft of Robert of Namur, lord of
 
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 Beaufort, principally of the wars after the battle of Poitiers \326. For 
 this purpofc, journeys into the remotefl: provinces of France were 
 undertaken by him. In his yet younger years, he had fallen dcfperately 
 in love with a perfon, of whofe beauty and excellence he had fo high an 
 opinion that, as he verfifies concerning her, every emperor, king, prince 
 and count, as far as Conftantinople, would have eflecmed himfelf happy 
 if he had been able to obtain her. His love was unf'uccefsful ; and from 
 her marriage with another, he fell into an illnefs of more than three 
 month's duration. To free himfelf from fuch tormenting difquietudes, 
 he went to England 1356, where after a violent ftorm, (during which he 
 neverthelefs compofed a rondeau on his miftrels,) he happily arrived, and 
 was, by queen Philippa of Hainault, the confort of Edward III. very kindly 
 received, to whom he prefented a part of his hiftory. Here he endeavoured 
 to conceal his grief, but in vain : all the entertainments which were procured 
 for him, all the manifeftations of favour with which he was loaded, availed 
 nothing. He returned at the queen's expenle, and went immediately to his 
 miftrefs. But bccaufe an intercourfe with her could not long continue, fo 
 he returned again to England, 1361, and was appointed cabinet-fecretarv 
 to the queen, who often requefted him to compofe love-fongs. He made 
 many journeys at her expenfe, to collecl materials for his hiftory, and was 
 by her richly rewarded. After five years he went back again. Soon after 
 that, however, the queen, his greateft benefa6lrefs, died; on which occafion, 
 he wrote an elegiac poem. Hereupon he journeyed into Italy, and through 
 Germany, but no more into England, and accepted, in his native country, 
 the re6tory of the parilh.of Leftines. He now attached himfelf to the 
 duke of Brabant, Wenccflaus of Luxembourg, an admirer of poetry, 
 whofe numerous fongs and poems he formed into a colle6lion. He added 
 fome of his own, and thereby compofed a kind of a romance with the titlcj 
 * Meliador*, or the Knight of the Golden Sun.' This duke died jufl before 
 its completion, 1383 or 1384; but FroifTart found a new prote<5lor in Guy 
 
 * So writes Chaufepie. In Sauvage's edition, and our manufcript, flands Meliador. la 
 Montfaucon's Bib]. MSS. t. ii. p. 786, comes ' le Roman de Meliadus,' alio before page 787, 
 
 :p
 
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 earl of Blois, to whom he was private chaplaui. In the years 1385 until 
 1387, he refided foinetin:ies at Blois, fometimes in Touraine. There the 
 earl propofcd that he fhould again take in hand his interrupted hiftory. 
 He therefore refolved to make the peace concluded 1388 of advantage 
 to himfelf. He went with letters of recommendation to Gafton Phoebus, 
 earl of Foix, where he was very well received, and refided a confiderable 
 time in Beam. Thence he travelled, richly rewarded, as far as Avignon, 
 in the fuit of the countefs of Boulogne, a kinfwoman of the earl of 
 Foix, married to the duke of Berry: he then made many journeys 
 abroad, and returned again to forward the perfe6lion of his work- But 
 as his materials for the hiftory of the war with Spain were not fufficient 
 for him, fo he journeyed to Middleburg in Zealand, where a portuguefe 
 gentleman, Portelet, furnifhed him with the moft important communications, 
 whereupon he once more returned home through Bruges *. In the year 
 1 29ii, he was at Paris, when Peter de Craon murdered the conftable de 
 Cliflbn ; and at the end of that year, or in the beginning of the following, at 
 Abbeville, during the negotiations for peace between France and England. 
 In the year 1394, he gave up the reverfion of a canonry at Lille, which he 
 had obtained from pope Clement VII. 1378. On occafion of the truce 
 between the French and Englilh, he journeyed once more into England, 
 1395, where he had not been for 27 years. After a three months flay, 
 he took leave of king Richard II. from whom he received one hundred 
 nobles, in a gilt filver goblet, which weighed two marks. After his return 
 died the earl Guy at Blois 1397. Froilfart was at that time 60 years old, 
 and lived at leaft four years more ; for the year of his death has been 
 juft as litde determined as the year of his birth : we only know that he 
 died in Oaobcr, as his deceafe is fet down in this month in the obituary of 
 the church of St Monegunde at Chimay. According to an account of that 
 place, he was buried in the chapel of St Anne of that cathedral. 
 
 * Not to Rome. Sauvage's text, vol. iii- c. 26. has Romme. In the note, he thinks we 
 fhould here read I'Eclufe, Bniges, or Valenciennes. Monfieui' de la Curne is of opinion that it 
 ■would be moft: namral to read Damme, which is a port near to I'Eclufe or Sluys, In oui 
 manufcript, chap. 52. it is Bruges, and fo as it Hands in the Beniiih-
 
 107 
 
 Chaufcpic fhould not have omitted the Critique of Monficur de la 
 Curne on Froiflait's Chronicle, or at leaft fliould have brought it in, 
 briefly prepared, which, however, Hamberger refers to, p. 6 i 1 . The value of 
 this Chronicle depends upon the high credibihty of his accounts, whicii by 
 his very intimate acquaintance with courts, efpecially with the Enghlli, and 
 others, he had picked up on every hand, for which end he even fpcnt the 
 greateft part of his hfe in travclhng, that he might gather accurate and 
 certain accounts concerning all events, from eye-witnefles and contemporaries, 
 and might himfelf view the places and countries where they had happened. 
 Now as he would neither pafs over any one circumftance which had 
 become known to him, nor trifling accident in war, or name of any 
 perfon of condition whofoever, bearing a part, fo he certainly is fo newhit 
 prolix ; as, for inftance, in defcribing the houfe-keeping of the earl Gallon 
 PhcEbus, vol. iii. c. 8. in Sauvagc's, and ellcwhcre befides ; in citing the 
 fpeeches of himfelf and others, whereby a perfon muft entirely rely upon 
 his carefulnefs, that he had obferved all readily and correctly. If FroilTart, 
 however, had only interwoven fuch fayings and fpeeches from memory 
 or from hearfay, they would pafs for fuch as apparently might fo have 
 been uttered as he has fet forth ; fo they fo much the more bear witnefs 
 to his great hiftorical addrefs, that through them he can make the reader 
 more readily comprehend the adventures, according to their to him known 
 reafons and caufes, and draw the charadler of the perfons a6ling, accurately 
 and to the life. 
 
 The greateft fault that has been attributed to him is his fuppofed partiality 
 to England. This is particularly done by Lenglet du F"refnoy, in the 
 Methode pour Etudier I'Hiftoire, T. ii. p. '263. Edit. 17'i9. 4.; whofe 
 accufation, that the Englifh had paid him well for the praife bellowed 
 upon them, neceflarily refutes itfelf, — and if we read his hiftory attentively, 
 it will be difcovered. But when Lenglet, page 425. of the iecond French 
 edition, has abided by his opinion, page 324. that the Engliih had aihited 
 him more with their money than he has ferved them with his hillory ; that 
 the love of money in him, as in Aretinus, was greater than the love of 
 truth : this comparifon is not only palpably wrong, but ferves much more
 
 108 
 
 for the confirmation of his impartiality. Therefore M. de la Curne^ 
 according to Hamhcrger's Notice, p. Sll, has vindicated him from the 
 reproach of partiality; and monf. profefTor Schrdkh, in his notes oa 
 Guthrie, volume x. part i. page 37S, judges that the French cry out againft 
 him for his partiality- towards the Englilli, not always with perfea truth. 
 
 After what we have faid, it now deferves confideration, what are the 
 manufcripts of this chronicle, and alfo of FroilTart's poems, extant eUewhere, 
 and where they are to be found ? Firft, from Montfaucon's Bibliotheca 
 Bibliothecarum Manufcriptorum nova Paris 1739, fol. mai. in ii tomis, 
 which have the numbers of the pages ftill running on. 
 Tom. i. pag. '29. B. N. 698. Jean FroifTard Hiltoire de France jufques en 
 
 Fan 1350. In Bibliolkcca Regina Succicc m Vaticana. 
 Pag. 81. B. Froiflart Chronique de France et d'Angleterre, 45, 46, 47,^ 
 premier tom. 306. fecond tom. 307. troifieme et quatrieme torn. 46. 
 Iterum, julqu' a Tan 1350. num. 308. 687. 698. In Bibliotheca 
 Alexandri Petavii in Vaticana. 
 P. 632. D. P. 285. Jean Froilfart, le fecond et le quatrieme volume de 
 fes chroniques, P. 294. Jean Froilfart chroniques de France ea 
 d'Ano-leterre, en 5 volumes. In Bibliotheca Regis Anglic, cujus 
 catalogus excufus J'uit Londini 1734 4. 
 Pas;. 654. C. N. 1503. Jean Froiflard Ion hiftoire. In Bibliotheca Bodleiana. 
 
 ex Calalogo Bibliothecarum Anglice. Oxon. 1691. 
 Pag. 68 1 . E. N. 2669. L'Hiftoire de Froiflard plus ample et plus corredle 
 
 que les iiTiprimees. Ex MSS. Ifaaci VoJ'sii in Bibl. Collegii Etonenfis. 
 Ibid. C. N. 2960. Froiflard Chronique d'Angleterre, deux tomes. In 
 
 Biblioth. Norfolc. in Collegio Grejkamenfi, Lond. 
 Tom. ii. pag. 7 82. C. N. 6760. Premier volume des chroniques de Jean 
 
 Froiflart, avec figures. In folio maximo. 
 Pag. 7 89. C. N. 7214. 7215. Plufieurs traites d'amours et de moralites, 
 compofes par Jean Froifliird, treibrier de Cimay (1. Chimay). In folio 
 mediocri. 
 Pag. 796. B. N. 8317. et plufieurs fuivant. Chroniques, ou hiftoires de 
 Jean Froiflart, en grand nombre. In folio magno.
 
 109 
 
 Pag. 875. B. N. 9651. Chroniques de Flandres, par Jean FroiOTart, depuis- 
 1378, jufqu' en 1385. N. 9661. le '2 vol. de Froiirard. In folio parvo. 
 
 Om}ies hi en Bibliotheca Rcgia Paiifienji. 
 Pag. 922. B. 925. C. Cod. 15. 16. 17. Hiftoire de FroifTard, en 4 vol. 
 
 & 85. 86. 87. 
 Pag. 924-. D. Cod. 258. Premier volume de Froiflart. 
 Pag. 960. A. Cod. 2444-. Abrege de FroiOart. Ill in Bibl. Colbertina in 
 
 Regia Parifienfi. 
 Pag. 1071. A. Vol. 169. 170. 171. 172. Hift. et Chronique de Jean 
 
 Froiflart. In Bihlioth. Coijliniana San-Germanejifi 
 Pag. 1111. E. Vol. 922. N. 206. Extrait de Froiflard, pour la fouverainete 
 
 de Beam, 1388. Ibidem. 
 Pag. 1190. A. Les Chroniques de Jean FroilTard, en trois tomes, qui font 
 
 en 2 volumes, in fol. Lijie de MSS. de V Abbaye de St Vincent de 
 
 BeJ'angon. 
 Pag. 1 194. E. Chroniques de France, d'Angleterre, d'Ecofle, &c. par 
 
 J. Froiflart, 2 vol. in fol. ' II y a beaucoup de difference pour les 
 
 expreflions, les titres, et la divifion des chapitres, entre Tedition de 
 
 Paris de 1518. &c. MS. qui paroit cependant du terns de I'auteur.' 
 
 Dans les Notes fur fes MSS. de celte Bibliotheque. 
 Pag. 1329. B. Hiftoire dc Froifllird, in fol. 2 vol. en papier. -In 
 
 Biblioth. Dom. Prafid. De Me/me *. 
 
 * To this lift of the manufcripts extant in France, 1 yet note the following. In the Gotha 
 Literary Gazette of Foreign Literature, 1791. No. 8. Pages 57, 58. ftands, — Bibliotlieca Parifiana, 
 or a Catalogue of a Colleftion of Books formed by a Gentleman in France, &c. London 1790. 
 8. 164 pages, on vellum paper. A London Bookfeller purchaled this coliedlion. It was fold by 
 auftion the 26th March, and following days. Amongi'l them were, ' les Chroniques de Froiflart,' 
 4 vol. on vellum. One part of thefe rarities came from the Library of Claude d'Urfe, and 
 originally belonged to the celebrated Diana of Poitiers, who availed htrfelf of the paflion of 
 two kings of France to enrich her own library with the choiceft pieces from the royal library. 
 The queftion is, whether thefe four volumes on vellum, (a printed edition], have been before noticed 
 by Montfaucon ? 
 
 They have not. They are now preferved in the Hafod Library, — and were bought by M. Paris 
 at tlie fale of the Soubife Library. ^T. J.
 
 no 
 
 Valerius Andreas informs us, in the Bibliotheca Belgica, Louanni 
 1(523-4. p. 503. that at Doornik, in the library of St Martin, a manufcript 
 with pi6lures was kept, but no longer remains, as in Fabricii Biblioth. med. 
 et inf. Lat. vol. ii. p. f)33. Not. b. 
 
 Among the manufcripts from the Voflian colle£lion, in the univerfity 
 library at Leyden, is found one in two volumes on vellum. Catal. Biblioth. 
 Univerfit. Lugd. Bat. 1716. fol. p. 358. 
 
 In the library at Bern is a beautiful manufcript on vellum, in four 
 folio volumes : out of each volume of them, however, the firft leaf of 
 the text has been cut. The infpeftor of this library, Mr I. R. Sinner, 
 has defcribed it in his excellent Catal. Codd. Manufcript. Bibliothecae 
 Bernenfis, in three large o6tavo volumes, t. ii. Bernae 1770, p. iiiiO. 241, 
 together with an inferted abridgment from the treatife of Monfieur de la 
 Curne, demonftrating the great value of this work, and has, with juftice, 
 cenfured many hiftories, that have been only compiled from newl'papers 
 and common fayings, by which the ftudy of hiftory and the remembrance 
 of human adventures have been confufed rather than illuftrated. He alfo 
 informs us of another manufcript, of which Jac. Bongarfius has availed 
 himfelf, and compared it with Sauvage's edition, which compared copy is 
 likewife found in the library at Berne, 
 
 Finally, Mr Bernouilli, in the fourteenth volume of his Colledlion of 
 fhort Defcriptions of Travels, Berlin, 1784, o61:avo, page 3S2. gives notice 
 that there had been fhewn to him in the library of Mr Reichfgrafen von 
 Callenberg at Muflkan, in the Oberlaufitz, Les 4 livres de Froiflart 
 Chronique de France, an excellent codex in two folio volumes on vellum, 
 263 leaves, beautifully written, but at different periods, with 200 exceedingly 
 magnificent miniature paintings. 
 
 This being premifed, 1 have to defcribe each volume particularly.
 
 Ill 
 
 THE FIRST VOLUME. 
 
 This confifls of 361 vellum leaves. The firft is blank. Then follow 
 the contents of all the 306 chapters on 27 full pages of 1 4- leaves : then 
 two blank ones, and the text on 31-3 leaves. Finally, a blank leaf. 
 
 The portions of the text, each of which is furnifhed with a catchword, 
 are the following ; 22 quaternions (176), one tercet (6), three quaternions 
 (24), one couplet (4), twelve quaternions (96), one quinternion (lO), three 
 quaternions (24), and three leaves. Total, 343 leaves; and this diverfity 
 of the portions, all of which, efpecially the tercet, couplet and quinternion, 
 I have accurately compared with Sauvage's edition, is incredibly complete. 
 
 In this volume are 18 large and 99 fmaller p'^lures, with which fix 
 of the more beautiful ones in the remaining three volumes may be compared. 
 I have marked them all, according to the numbers of the leaves and of the 
 chapters of all the four volumes, in a lift, which I have laid by for future 
 obfervation. 
 
 The commencement of the whole manufcript has already been noticed:: 
 there is even a good large pi6ture under the left hand column, with 
 
 and then. 
 
 * Cy commence le premier volume,' &c. 
 
 A celle fin que honnorables 
 advenues et nobles ad- 
 ventures et faiz d'armes 
 par les guerres de Frace 
 et d'Angleterre, Soient notablement 
 regiftrez et mis en memoire ppetuel 
 parguoy les preuz aient exemple 
 d'euiz encouragier en bien faifant, 
 Je vueil traittier et recorder hiftoire 
 €t viatiere de grand louanger mais, 
 &c»
 
 11 '2 
 
 This volume ends with the S06th chapter, which is in Sauvage, vol. i, 
 c. 263. with the following words in him, p. 365, but according to the 
 manufcript, and in the following extra6ls, the manner of reading is different 
 from the text of Sauvage. 
 
 Mdis tout 
 confidere, ceulx de la ville fe ren- 
 dirent Anglois, par compofition 
 telle, que Ven ne leur devoit point 
 porter de dommage, et lors 
 monfeigner lehan Chandos y mift 
 et laifla pour capitaine, ung 
 chevallier Anglois, appelle montz ? 
 Robert Rouz", puis paflerent les 
 Anglois oultre, en exillat les pays, 
 parfm et autrement,.^ 
 
 Dire6lly under it, the firfl pofTeflbr, Anthony of Burgundy, has written with 
 his own hand, 
 
 Nul . ne . fy . frote. 
 
 •o-f. de. Bourgoigne 
 Nul ne laproche 
 
 o o 
 
 o o de Bourgoigne o o 
 
 The moft important notice refpe6ting this volume concerns the 
 comparifon of the extrafts from the firft volume of the manufcript at 
 Berne, inferted by Mr Sinner, with Sauvage's text.
 
 n^ 
 
 Cod. Bernens, T^dit. Savvagh. Cod. Rehdig. 
 
 •(apudSimicrum, p. 255.) (v. l.ch. I. p. 2. lin. 20.) {v. 1. ch. 2.fol. 2. a.) 
 
 Meflire Reynault de 
 Cobam 
 
 Qbid.) 
 
 IVTeffire Saintre, Ernoiil 
 d'Andrehan, meflire 
 Bouchicault, meflire 
 Guichartd' Angle, mon- 
 feigneur de Beaujeu le 
 pere et le fils. 
 
 Meflire Regnaut de 
 Gobehan 
 
 {ibid. lin. 28. 30.) 
 et fut le roy Philippe de 
 Valois un trefliardi et 
 vaillant chevalier, et le 
 roy Jehan fon fils, 
 Charles le roy de Be- 
 haigne, le compte d'A- 
 len9on, le compte de 
 Foix, meflire Saintre, 
 meflire Arnoul d'Agle, 
 mefleigneursdeBeauieu, 
 le pere et le fils. 
 
 Meflire Regnault de 
 Gobehen 
 
 (ibid.) 
 et fut le noble roy Phe- 
 lippe de Valoiz ung tre- 
 fliardy et bachelereux 
 chevallier, et le roy 
 Jehan fon filz, le roy de 
 Behaigne, leconted'A- 
 lenchon, le conte de 
 Foiz, meflire Saintre, 
 meflire Ernoul d'An- 
 drehem, meflire Bouci- 
 quaut, meflire Quichart 
 d' Angle, meflire Phe- 
 lippe de Beaugeu, le 
 pere et le fils. 
 
 (p. 235. 237.) 
 
 Mais le roy ne lui fouf- 
 froit ains la tenoit par 
 la main droite et lui de- 
 mandoit moult douce- 
 ment de fon eflat et de 
 fon affaire : la dame lui 
 refpondi moult faige- 
 mentct finablement tant 
 que le lui dift, Monfeig- 
 neur il va a moi et a 
 
 {ch. 6. p.. 5. lin. i. 10.) {ch. l.fol. 4. a.) 
 
 Mais le roy ne la laiflbit, 
 et la tenoit, toufiours par 
 la main dextre, et luy 
 demandoit toufiours de 
 fon cftat et de fon affaire 
 moult doucement : et la 
 dame refpondit treflfage- 
 ment : et tant furent les 
 poralles menees, qu'elle 
 luy racompta les fe- 
 ci 
 
 Mais le roy ne la laif- 
 foit, et la tenoit toudis 
 par la main droitte, et 
 lui demandoit moult 
 doulcement de fon eftat 
 et de fon affaire, et la 
 dame luy refpondoit tres 
 fagement, et tant furent 
 les paroles, que elle luy 
 racompta les felonnies
 
 11^ 
 
 man fils afles petitement, 
 car le roy d'Angieterre 
 mon mary me a prins en 
 trop grand hayne et fi 
 ne fcay pourguoy finou 
 par I'enortement d'un 
 chevalier qui s'apelle 
 Hues Defpenfier. Ceft 
 cbevalier a tellement 
 attrait afoy monfeigneur 
 que tout ce quil vuelt 
 dire et faire il eft fait. 
 Et ja out plufieurs feig- 
 neurs de grent lignaye, 
 compare tres chierement 
 fa mauvaiftie. Car il 
 en fift en ung jour par 
 le commandement du 
 roy fans droit et raifon 
 decapiter jufques a xxii. 
 et par efpecial le bon 
 conte Thomas de Lan- 
 caftre duquel fut grent 
 dommaige, car il eftoit 
 tres loyal homme et 
 plain de bon confeil. 
 Mais il n'eft nul en 
 Angleterre tant foit 
 noble de grant affaire 
 qui I'ofe courrouchier 
 ne deldire de tout ce que 
 il veult faire. Avecques 
 tout ce il me fut dift en 
 tres grant lecret d'un 
 
 lonnies de meffire Hue 
 le Defpenfier, et luy en 
 requit confort et confeil. 
 Lors, guand le noble 
 roy Charles de France 
 eut ouy fa foeur lamen- 
 ter (qui en plorant luy 
 remonftrort fa befongne) 
 fi luy dit, Ma belle fceur, 
 appaifez vous ; car, foy 
 que ie doy a Dieu et a 
 monfeigneur faint De- 
 nis, i'y pourvoyeray de 
 remede. 
 
 de monfeigneur Hues le 
 Defpenfieur, et luy en 
 rcquift confeil et con- 
 fort. Quant le noble 
 roy Charles de France 
 eut oy fa fuer lamenter, 
 qui en plourant lui re- 
 monftra fa befongne, fi 
 dift. Ma belle luer ap- 
 paifies vous. Car toy 
 que ie doy a Dieu et a 
 monfeigneur faint De- 
 nis ie y pourvoieray de 
 remede»-
 
 115 
 
 homme qui cuide afles 
 fa voir des confaux du 
 roy et de Hues le Def- 
 penfier guon avoit grant 
 envie fur moy et que fe 
 je demourie guerres ou 
 pays le roy mon mary 
 par mauvaife et faulce 
 informacion me feroit 
 morir a la longue a 
 lionte et fi ne lay pas 
 deflervi ne je ne le vou- 
 droye avoir deffervi nul- 
 lement. Car oncques 
 envers lui je ne fais 
 chofe ne penfay qui fut 
 a reprendre. Et quand 
 je entendi ces doulou- 
 reufes nouvelles fur moy 
 a tort et fans aucune 
 raifon je me advifay 
 pour le mieux que je me 
 partiroye d'Angleterre 
 et vous viendroie voir 
 et remonftrer feable- 
 ment comme a mon- 
 feigneur et beaufrere 
 I'aventurc et ce peril ou 
 j'ay efte. Et aufli le 
 conte de Kent que la 
 veez qui eft frere du roy 
 mon mary eft en tel parti 
 de hayne comme je fuis 
 et le tout par le mouve-
 
 lid 
 
 ment de ce Hues le Def- 
 penfier et ainfi me fuis 
 ici affuye com me fern me 
 efgaree et mal conieillee 
 pour avoir confeil et 
 confort de ces be- 
 foingnes. Car fe Dieu 
 premierement et vous ny 
 remedies je ne me fcay a 
 qui retraire. Cliap. viiL 
 Quant le noble roy 
 Charles de France eut 
 oy fa feur ainfi lamenter 
 et qui de bon cuer en 
 plourant moult tendre- 
 ment lui remonftroit fa 
 befoigne et pourguoy 
 elle eftoit venue en 
 France fi en euft tres 
 grant pitie et lui dis : 
 Ma belle feur, appaifies 
 vous et fi vous confortez 
 car par la foy que ie doy 
 a Dieu et a monfeigneur 
 faint Denys je y pour- 
 Yerray de remede. 
 
 (p. 238.) 
 
 {ch. V28. p. 150. iin. 18, (c/i. 
 23.) 
 
 135. fol. 144. 
 145. a.) 
 
 b. 
 
 Si fut mis en la premiere Si fut mife en la pre^ 
 bataille le ieune prince miere le jeune prince de 
 de Galles, et auecques Galles, ^aueuc luy k
 
 117 
 
 leconte de Kenfort, 
 
 le fire de Manne, 
 
 mefTire Barthelemy de 
 Brimes, 
 
 le fire de Latimer. . 
 
 luy le conte de War- 
 wich, le conte de Quan- 
 fort, mefTire Godeffroy 
 de Harecourt, meflire 
 Regnault de Gobeghen, 
 mefTire Thomas de 
 Hollande, monfeigneur 
 Richart de Stanfort, le 
 fire de Manne, le fire de 
 la Ware, mefilre Jehan 
 Chandos, mefTire Ber- 
 thelemy de Bonnes, 
 monfeigneur Robert de 
 Neufville, monfeigneur 
 Thomas de ClifTort, le 
 fire de Bourfier, le fire 
 de la Tumier. . 
 
 conte de VVaruich, le 
 conte de Kemfort, mon- 
 feigneur GodcfTroy de 
 I Iarricourt,mefTireReg- 
 naultdeGobeheti, mon- 
 feigneur Thomas de 
 Hollande, monfeigneur 
 Richart de Scanfort, le 
 fire de Manne, le fire de 
 la Ware, meflire Jehan 
 Chandos, meflire Ber- 
 thelemj de B runes, 
 monfeigneur Robert de 
 Noeufville, monfeigneur 
 Thomas CUfTort, le fire 
 de Noeufville, le fire de 
 Bourfier, le fire Latinier. 
 
 {ibid.) 
 
 (ch. li>9, p.\3l. lin. 7. {ch. 136.>/. 145. b.)] 
 15. 17. 
 
 le Moyne de Bafele 
 
 Lors enuoya le roy Adont enuoia le roy 
 quatre cheualiers : le quatre bons cheualliers, 
 Moyne de Bafele, le Moifne de Bafele, 
 
 le roy dit au Moyne de Ley roy dift au Moifne 
 Bafele, de Bafele, 
 
 Lors dit le Moyne de. Adont dift le Moifne de 
 Bafele. Bafele. 
 
 * Mr Sinner prefers this reading, Bafele lo Bafele, becaufe it agrees better willi Balileenfis. 
 But fhould not Bafele rather agree with Bafele ? particularly as in the Gothic hand, the c differs little 
 from the f .
 
 11« 
 
 Q). 241.) 
 
 ;Lors cheuaulcha tant le 
 roy, quil vint au chatel 
 de I'Arbroie 
 
 {ch. 130. p. 154. 
 2. 6.) 
 
 I in. 
 
 (ch. Ul.fol. 149. fl.) 
 
 le roy dit au Chatellain, 
 ouvreSjOuvreSjC'eft Tin- 
 fortune roy de France. 
 
 Lors cheuaucha tant le Lors cheuaucha telle- 
 roy, qu'il vint au chattel ment le roy Phelippe 
 de la Broye. q'uil vint au chattel de 
 
 Labroye. 
 Le roy dit, Ouurez, Leroyrefpondj,Ouurez, 
 ouurez, Chattellain c'ett ouurez chattellain, c'etl 
 la fortune de France *. le Infortune roy de 
 
 France. 
 
 This comparifon evidently proves, 1 . that Sauvage's edition is borrowed 
 from the more ancient copies, as hereafter will appear; 2. that the 
 manufcript at Berne, in the firtt chapters, fometimes deviates much from 
 our manufcript ; and 3. that Sauvage's edition differs alfo from this : it 
 may give occafion for a criticifm of Froitfart's Chronicle : conicquently, 
 if we were to defire a new and complete edition of this fo important 
 work, we mutt prcvioufly compare all extant known manufcripts, in order 
 from them to compote a text evidently correal according to the rules of 
 criticifm. 
 
 The patTage from chapter cxxx. according to Sauvage, may alfo ferve 
 for the conclufion, in which FroitTart relates the circumttances under 
 which the blind king of Bohemia, John fon of the emperor Henry VI f. 
 and father to the tucceeding emperor Charles IV. was killed at the battle of 
 Crecy 1346. The blunder in Froitfart's text, in which his name John 
 is interchanged with Charles, Sauvage has noted in the margin. It is 
 aflonilhing that Sleidanus, in the abridgment, fhould put, ' Succubuit 
 in hoc praslio Henricus a Lutzemburgo pater Caroli Bohemias regis ;' 
 
 * Daniel has alfo this falfe reading, t. iv. p. 159.
 
 Ill) 
 
 which blunder remains in all the editions I have feen. In the manufcript, 
 is the paflage, fol. 147. b. chapter cxxxvii. : in Sauvagc, p. 152. lin. 
 39. 54. 
 
 ' Le vaillant roy de Behaigne * que fe appclloit Charles de Luccmbourg, . 
 car il fut filz au gentil empercur Henry de Lucembourg quant 11 qui eftoit 
 aveugle entendj lordonnance de la bataille ct (jue les Francois Ji co7iduiJuient^ 
 Joiblemmt, covime cellui qui part ir ne s" en vouloit Jms f aire amies, dift, ou eft 
 mon filz Charles fes gens rcfpondirejit. Sire, nous ne lauons, nous cuidons 
 qu'il foil en Ccjhmr, et la fe combat ; Adont dift celliii/ roy a fes nobles qui 
 le conduifoient , Seigneurs vous eftes mes hommes, et mes amis, et mes 
 compaignons, A la iournee d'huy, ie vous requier que vous me menez fi 
 auant que Je puifle ferir ung coup d'efpee, Les cheuallicrs qui eniour lui 
 e/Ioient, leujfent enuis laifsie, Et adont a cellc fin q'uilz ne Ic pcrdiflent en la 
 prefTe, ilz fe lierent par les frains de leurs cheuaulx tous enfemble, et mifrent 
 leur roy tout dcuant pour mieulx fon defiricr accomplir, Et ainfi fen alerent 
 fur leurs ennemis, monfeigneur Charles de Behaigne, qui defia fe fcripfoit 
 roy de Behaigne, et en portoit les armes vint ordonneem.ent Jufques a la 
 bataille, Mais quant il perchut que la befoingjie aloit mal pour les Francois, 
 II fen party, Je ne fcay pas /^quel chemin il prinft Le roy fon pere cheuaucha fi 
 auant fur fes ennemisq'uil fery ung coup de fon efpee voire quatre et plus defi.r^ 
 Car il fe combaty tres vigueureufement, et aufii firent ceulx de fa compaignie, 
 Et la fe bouterent fi auant qu'en la^fin tous y demourent jnors et detreiichiez, 
 Et furent lendcmain trouucz fur la place autour dc leur roy et tous leurs 
 cheuaulx loiez enfemble, par les frains,.'' 
 
 * Without the propofition, ' y fut occis,' this paffage has no fenfe. Therefore Sauvage has, 
 •with propriety, taken it into his text, from the edition by Verard. I fliall further remark, that 
 although Froifllrt, according to Sauvage, vol. i. c. 128. p. 150, relates veiy circumftantially the 
 battle-array of the Englilh : the manufcript has many variations, yet not a word appears in either of 
 artillery', of which the Englifh availed themfelves in tliis hattle, according to Guthrie, volume x. 
 part i. page 392, volume xiii. part i. page 503,
 
 120 
 
 VOLUME THE SECOND 
 
 "Consists at prefent of 428 leaves of vellum, the firfl: of vi^hicb is blank : 
 then follow the contents of all the 389 chapters on fixteen leaves and the firft 
 column of the feventeenth : after two blank leaves, the text on 407 leaves. 
 Finally, a blank leaf. 
 
 The portions of the text, each furniflied with its catch-word, are : 
 27 quaternions (216), 1 ternion (6), and 24 quaternions (192). Total, 
 414 leaves, in which, when the comparifon with Sauvage's edition was 
 made by me, there was nothing wanting. However, a defcendant 
 of Flacius (whofe family, not being extin6t, every librarian mufh be 
 extremely wary of) has had this volume in his hands, and has ftolcn 
 from it feven whole leaves : the firft five are fingle leaves, the fmall 
 remains of which are ftill to be feen, — and indeed the eighth leaf of 
 the eleventh quaternion, the fixth of the fourteenth, the fecond of the 
 twenty-fixth, and the fecond of the twenty-feventh. There is nothing 
 wanting to the ternion. Then the eighth leaf of the thirty-fourth is 
 wanting, the fourth and fifth leaf of the forty-ninth quaternion ; or 
 of the text 88, 110, 202, 210, 278, 394, and 395th leaf. This theft 
 was difcovered in 1762, by my late uncle and predeceflbr, the re£lor Arlet, 
 who has written the account of it upon a particular leaf. 
 
 In this volume, there are, upon the 407 leaves which the text now has, 
 four large and forty-two fmall pictures, in all forty-fix, moftly of battles 
 and petty war-adventures, which are all exceedingly handfome. Some 
 amongft them, leaf 42, 285 and 355, are very remarkable on account 
 of the unufual form of the heavy artillery, as delineated in the middle of 
 the fifteenth century; for example, of three cannons on a fingle carriage, 
 of a gun-breach with a huge iron quadrant to level it by, &c. 
 
 The beginning of the volume, including the contents of the chapter, is 
 as follows :
 
 121 
 
 Cy commence la table des 
 
 Rubrices de cc pnt fecond 
 
 volume Intitule, Des 
 croniques, Meflire Jehan Frolflart 
 pb're et chanoine de Chimay en 
 Haynau. 
 
 Et premieremcnt. 
 
 Comment la ville de Bourdille, 
 &c. 
 
 The fecond volume alfo commences with a very beautiful large picture, 
 under which the contents of the firfl chapter follow, which in Sauvage is 
 vol. i. ch. 264-. p. 565. It terminates at the firft column of the 407th leaf 
 at prefent, formerly of the 414th, with the 389th chapter; but according 
 to Sauvage, vol. ii. ch. 179. Underneath flands written in red, 
 
 Cy prent fin des quatre volumes, 
 que compilla iadis leh Froiffart 
 le fecond. Lequel par lordonnance 
 et commandement de tres excellent 
 prince et mon trefredoubte feigneur, 
 Monfeigneur Anthoine baftard de 
 Bourgoigne conte de la Roche en Ardenne 
 ? cet'. A efte grofle et de to s poins 
 affoiray, Lan de grace nre Seigneur 
 Mil cccc.lxix., 
 
 And under this in black : 
 
 n £1 1 
 Nul . ne . fy . frote . 
 
 •Q-j-. de . Bourgoigne. 
 
 R
 
 122 
 
 Alfo on the reverfe, juft at top, 
 
 A 
 
 Nul ne la proche 
 
 o o 
 
 o o de Bourgoigne o o 
 
 r muft notice a particular circumftance, that with the leaves now 
 wanting, the text itfelf could not be ftolen, and of the hiftory itfelf there 
 fhould nothing be lofl. The Library poflefles two copies of the fecond 
 volume of the edition of Sauvage, which have been twice collated with the 
 manufcript before the theft was committed : firft by its poffeflbr, Thomas 
 von Rehdiger himfelf ; alfo a c< py of the firfl: volume collated with this 
 manufcript. Thefe copies will be defcribed hereafter. From both, particularly 
 the Rehdigerian copy and correction of the Sauvagian text, 1 have wiihed 
 to make public by means of the prefs, the reintegration of all the feven leaves 
 in their connexion, and with reference to Sauvage's edition, and for the 
 fake of more modern hiftorians, partly that the great difference between 
 the criticifm of Sauvage and our manufcript may thereby be flill more 
 illuftrated, and partly that experienced critics on the Englilhi and French 
 Hiftories of that time, may thereby be able to judge whether the contents 
 of each ftolen leaf be fo important that we may fuppofe the theft had 
 been committed from political motives, or whether the defire of having 
 pofTeflion of fo many beautiful pictures, as cabinet-pieces, occafioned it, 
 whilft the volume that was then lent out with this has remained unhurt ; 
 in which, however, the moft, but far meaner pidures, are to be found.
 
 42S 
 
 SUPPLEMENT I. 
 
 Conclufion of the 87th leaf of the manufcript of 30 lines : 
 
 * Comments les Francois occirent ung moult vaillant cheualier anglois 
 par petit d'duis.' Le chap. Cxc 
 
 * En ce voiage,' &c. (18) 
 
 The 88th leaf, according to Rehdiger's copy : 
 
 * line fainglc cotte de fer,' &c. (19) 
 
 * Comment le due Dangou, fift trenchier a deux cheuailliers et deux 
 efcuiers, hoftagiens les teftes, et comment en defpit de ce melTue Rohert 
 Canolle fift a trois cheualliers et ung efcuier prifonniers les teftes trenchier.' 
 Le chapitre Cxj. * 
 
 * Nous retournerons,' See. 
 
 The beginning of the 89th leaf of the manufcript of eight lines and s 
 half: 
 
 * Aflez toft apres,' &c. (21) 
 
 See Sauvage's edition, vol. i. p. 44'4'. lin. 12. and p. 44(?. lin. 16, which 
 text Rehdiger has wholly effaced. Daniel Hift. de France edit Par. 1729, 
 t. V. p. 197, relates this matter very briefly; Guthrie, &c. in the Univerfal 
 Cofmography, vol. x. part i. p. 514, and following, fomevvhat more 
 circumftantially. For Rapin and Hume it was infignificant. By 
 comparing both the tranfcripts of the 88th leaf from Rehdiger's copy, 
 and the pieces from the manufcript itfelf, it is eafy to perceive that, on the 
 88th leaf cut therefrom, there has been no picture. 
 
 * The contents of this, and of all the chapters of tlic raiffing leaves, have beea copied from the 
 contents of the printed chapters prefixed to the volume.
 
 124 
 
 SUPPLEMENT II. 
 
 Conclufion of the 109th leaf of the manufcript of 28 lines : 
 
 ' Comment les compaignes,' &c. 
 
 The 1 10th leaf, according to Rehdiger's copy : 
 
 * Cheualier,' &c. 
 
 Commencement of the 1 1 1th leaf of the manufcript of fourteen lines : 
 
 * Jurer tous les prelats,' &c. (23) 
 
 Here Sauvage's edition, vol. i. ch. 324. 325. p. 454. 455. varies greatly 
 from the manufcript. Rehdiger has entirely cancelled this text. In Daniel, 
 the whole hiftory of the year 1376 takes up only one page and a half. In 
 Hume's hiftory of England, vol. ii. tranflated at Breflau and Leipfic, 1761 . 
 page 211. fcarcely half a page. Rapin has more, Ed. II. a la Haye 1727. 
 T. iii. p. 242. 245. ; but much fliorter is Guthrie, page 519. On tue leaf 
 cut out, there can have been no picture. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT III., 
 
 Conclufion of the 20lfl: leaf of the manufcript of 44 fines: 
 ' Ce proprejour,'' &c. (^24) 
 
 The 202d leaf according to the text of Sauvage, as Rehdiger has 
 Gorre6ted it : 
 
 * Y eujl Uiijc; &c. 
 
 Commencement of the 203d leaf of the manufcript of 36 lines : 
 
 ' Plainc armoierlc,' &c. (26) 
 
 A fmall cut has evidently been upon the 202d leaf. With this Sauvage's 
 text, vol. ii. c. 53. p. 90. in the middle of the fifth line from the end, as 
 far as c. 5 1. p. 92. line 2. is to be compared ; thence the deviation of 
 his text from the manufcript is evident, and in this place confiderable-
 
 12: 
 
 See Daniel, T. v. p. 243. s. ; Rapin, p. 278.; Hume, p. 22i.; Guthrie,, 
 p. 527. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT IVi 
 
 Conclufion of the 209th leaf of the manufcript of fifteen lines and 
 a half: 
 
 • Je euz long temps,' &c. (27) 
 
 The 210th leaf according to the text of Sauvage, as Rehdiger has 
 corredled it : 
 
 ' Les bonnes villes,' &c. 
 
 Commencement of the 211th leaf of the manufcript of 25 lines :- 
 
 ' Du mans,' &c. (29) 
 
 See the editition of Sauvage, vol. ii. p. 97. lin. 35. as far as p. 98. 
 lin. 28. without reckoning the title of the 57th chapter according to his 
 divifion; Daniel, p. tlil. 273.; Rapin, p. 278.; Guthrie, p. 527 and 
 following; Hume, p. 223 and following. The miffing 210th leaf has- 
 certainly been cut out for the fake of one of the fmall cuts. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT V. 
 
 Conclufion of the 277th leaf of the manufcript of 2-1' lines : 
 ' Quant le roy,' &c. 
 
 The 278th leaf according to the text of Sauvage, as Rehdiger has 
 corre6led it : 
 
 ' Et eftoyent,' &c. (30) 
 
 Commencement of the 279th leaf of the manufcript of 27 lines : 
 
 ' La fut (edit; &c. (31) 
 
 r 
 
 See Sauvage's edition, vol. ii. p. 169. lin. 22. as far as p. 170. lin. 13. 
 exclufiNC of the contents of the 93d chapter. On the miffing leaf, there.
 
 126 
 
 has alfo been a fmall cut for the 288th chapter. Rapiti is very brief, 
 p. 28.9. ; ftill briefer, M. profeflbr Schrokh, ia the Annotations on Guthrie, 
 :^'ol. xiii. part i. p. 557. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT VI. & VII. 
 
 Conclufion of the 3.93d leaf of the manufcript of 27 hnes: 
 
 * En la marche,' &c, (32) 
 
 The 394th and 395th leaf according to the text of Sauvage, as Rehdiger 
 has corre6tcd it : 
 
 * Et pour leiir logis,' &c. 
 
 Commencement of the 596th. leaf of the manufcript of 22 lines : 
 
 * De la monclaue,' &c. (36) 
 
 See Sauvage's text, vol. ii. p. 296, as far as p. 298 eight lines. FroifTart's 
 circumflantialnefs is contrafled with Rapin'svery brief relation, p. 293. In 
 Guthrie and Hume, we need not look for this adventure. Of the enterprifes 
 of Johnof Vienne, Hume, p, 227. and Guthrie, p. 5i3. give a lliort account. 
 On both miffing leaves, muft have been two fmaller, if not one large 
 drawing. 
 
 It is true, that Froiflart, in relating petty war-adventures, duels, and 
 knights' hiftories, is uncommonly prolix ; as, for example, in the preceding 
 chapters; but the noble fimplicity with which he relates them is fo captivating 
 that the tirefome collation of the printed editions with the manufcript, which 
 I have begun, has added to the length, it is true, but makes amends by its 
 entertainment.
 
 127 
 
 VOLUME in. 
 
 This confifts of only 382 leaves of vellum, the firft of which is blank : 
 then follow the contents of all the 1 8 1 chapters on ten leaves and the firft 
 page of the eleventh ; the text on 369 leaves : at the end, one blank. 
 
 The portions of the text, each furnifhed with its catch-word, are: 
 thirteen quaternions (104), one quinternion (lO), 22 quaternions (17G), 
 one ternion (6), nine quaternions (72), and five leaves: total, 373 leaves : 
 all accuratcl)- compared with Sauvage's edition, and nothing found wanting; 
 but by this collation I have difcovered, that the 368th leaf has been bound 
 before the 367th. This volume has alfo had the misfortune of being purloined 
 of four leaves in fuccelTion, — and indeed of the fecond and fifth of the 1 3th 
 quaternion, or the 99th and 102d leaf of the text ; of which cut-out leaves 
 the remains are ftill to be feen. INly late uncle has marked this detect merely 
 with a flip of paper laid in : of this theft, I know no more. 
 
 In this volume, on the yet remaining 369 leaves of the text, are extant 
 one large and 37 Imaller drawings; in all, 38; which are variouily coloured, 
 and exceedingly beautiful. On fome, Froifiart himfelf is delineated. 
 
 The beginning of the volume, with the argument of the chapter, is :. 
 
 Cy commence la table 
 
 des Rubrices de ce pnt 
 
 liure Intitule, la tierce 
 partie des croniques fire Jehan 
 
 Froifiart 
 
 Et premierement. 
 
 Comment fire lehan FroifiTart 
 fe party de France pour aler en la 
 conte de Foiz. Puis parle des gras 
 guerres de Portingal et dEfpaigne 
 Le chapitre. Premier..
 
 This volume begins alfo with a large beautiful drawing, in which 
 FroifTart is delineated kneeling before Guy earl of Blois, and receiving 
 from him a letter of recommendation to Gallon earl of Foix. It ends 
 like the third volume of the edition of Sauvage, which has 142 chapters, 
 of which there are in this 1 S 1 ; and indeed with the following variations 
 in the firft column of the fecond page of 28 lines, with which page 363 in 
 that is to be compared. 
 
 ' En ce temps cftoient grands nouuelles en France et en maint autres 
 Jieux et pays de vne tres puiffant feilc et Jouftes defbatemens, que le ieune 
 roy Charles de France vouloit faire a Paris, a la bien venue de la royne 
 Yfabcl de France fa femme qui encoures nauoit elle a Paris, pour laquelle 
 fefte cheualliers et efcuiers, dames et damoifelles fappareilloient par tout 
 grandement et richement. Et de laquelle fefte, Je parleray encours auent 
 en mes traitiez Et de la chartre de la trieue quy fut leuee grofle, et fcelle 
 de « toutes parties, Mais au iour que Je cloy ce prefent liure ie ne lauoie 
 pas, fi men conuint foufFrir, et auffi fe II plaift a mon trefchier et hunnoure 
 feigneur, Monfeigneur le conte Guy de Bloys, a la requefte et plaifance 
 duquel ie ay traueille en cefte haulte et noble hiftoire, II me dira, et pour 
 lamour de luy Je y entendray, et de toutes chofes aduenues depuis ce tiers 
 .livre. cloz ie menfonnyeray voulentiers, 
 
 Cy fine ce prefent liure 
 
 Intitule, le tiers volume 
 
 Sire lehan Froiflart.' 
 
 Juft underneath, 
 
 A 
 Nul. ne. fy. frote. Nul ne laproche 
 
 o o 
 
 of. de Bourgoigne. o o de Bourgoigne o o 
 
 The text on the four mifling leaves is, alas ! not to be fupplied as 
 done with the feven in the fecond volume, for Rehdiger's collation
 
 129 
 
 ^vith Sauvage's edition extended but to the firfl two volumes. There is, 
 it is true, an exa(5l collation juft begun of this third volume extant, but 
 only of the firfl three chapters, as far as page eight, of which hereafter. It 
 were to be wi(hed that the deviations of the text on the mifling leaves had 
 been as Httle numerous as thofe of the firfl: volume. As it is, we muft 
 content ourfelves with Sauvage's text until this uncertainty ihall have 
 been removed in future by a foreign manufcript; concerning which, 
 however, it muft previoufly be proved that it has a fimilar text with ours. 
 For this purpofe, alfo, the two following extracts may be of ufe. 
 
 Conclufion of the 98th leaf of the manufcript of 4J: lines, in Sauvage, 
 vol iii. p. 92. lin. 12. to lin. '19. 
 
 * Vray eft,' &c. (39) 
 
 Now there is fomething wanting in p. 92. lin. 29. from the words of 
 * que vous me parlez,* as far as page 96. lin. 15- to the words ' auint cefte 
 hiftoire.' Thefe are 207 printed lines, 535 lines of the manufcript, or 
 feven pages and a half, fo that a drawing, and probably a large one, has 
 been loft. The 103d leaf, becaufe of the large initial, begins with a new 
 chapter, the title of which, from the prefixed contents, is as follows : 
 
 * Comment,' &c. (40) 
 
 So much for the firft 29 lines of the 103d leaf. I muft remark, that 
 in this volume, each page has only 35 lines.
 
 130 
 
 VOLUME IV. 
 
 Is complete. It confifts of 333 vellum leaves. The firft two are blank. 
 Then follow the contents of all the 82 chapters on four leaves : over each 
 is the number of the leaf, originally written thereon, where every chapter 
 begins; then two blank leaves. The text on 3'21 leaves, each with its 
 originally-written number. Finally, four blank leaves. 
 
 The portions of the text, each furnidied with its very fmall written 
 catchword, are all together 40 quaternions (300) and one leaf. Total, 
 321 leaves. Thofe extant numbers have greatly facilitated the examination 
 of the perfe6lnefs of this volume. There are extant five large and eighteen 
 fmall drawings, — together twenty-three, — and, the fourth of the fifteenth 
 leaf excepted, uncommonly beautiful. In the firft large and a fmaller one 
 of leaf ]14', Froiffart is delineated. 
 
 The beginning of the volume, with the argument of the chapter, is, 
 
 Cy commence la table des. 
 
 Rubrices de ce quart et 
 
 dernier volume des cro- 
 niques de fire lehan Froiffart pb're 
 et chanoine de Chymay en Haynau. 
 
 The conclufion of this volume, and of the whole manufcript, with the 
 120th chapter, according to Sauvage's divifion, is upon the firft column of 
 the fecond fide of the 32lft leaf, as follows : 
 
 Le pape Boniface quy trop perdy a 
 cejie tranfmutation, Eimoia vng 
 legal en AUemaigne pour prefchier 
 les liegois, et pour les faire retoner 
 a fa creance, Mais le legal ne oza paf- 
 fer Coulongne, et enuoia lettres a
 
 131 
 
 liege, On lify les lettres et fut dit 
 au meflage, Ne retourne plus pour 
 telz chofcs fur la peyne deftre noye. 
 Car autant de meflages quy vendrot 
 icy pour telle matiere, Certes nous 
 
 les Jetterons en moufe. 
 
 Cy fine le quart et dernier 
 volume des Croniques meflz 
 lehan Froiflart, touchant les 
 Hiftoires et Aduenues de Fra- 
 ce et Dangleterre, GrofTe par 
 Dauid Aubert Ian de grace «« 
 nre Seigneur Mil cccclxviij. 
 
 Nul. ne. fy. frote 
 •of de Bourgoigne. 
 
 A 
 
 Nul ne la proche 
 
 o o 
 
 o o de Bourgoigne. o o
 
 SECOND DIVISION, 
 
 PRINTED BOOKS. 
 
 I. 
 
 1,2. Le Premier Volume de I'Hiftoire at Croniqiie de Meflire jEHAfr 
 Froissart Reueu et corrige fur divers Exemplaires, et Suyuant les bons 
 Auteurs, pars Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles en Brie, Hiftoriographe du 
 Trefcretien Roy Henry 11*=. de ce nom. Auec Priuilege. A Lyon, par 
 Jean de Toiames, Imprimeur du Roy. M.D.LIX. 
 
 Three leaves, title, dedication, advertil'ement ; feven leaves, contents of 
 S30 chapters, together with notice of the errata ; text, 4()2 pages ; 
 135 notes on 16 leaves. 
 Le fecond Volume. 
 
 Six leaves, title, dedication, contents of 179 chapters, together with 
 notice of the errata; text, Sl^ pages; 37 notes on three leaves. 
 At the end (lands, ' De I'lmprimerie de Jean deTournes a Lyon, rue 
 Raizin, a I'Enfeigne de deux Viperes.' 
 
 Le tiers Volume. M.D.LX. 
 
 Six leaves, title, dedication, contents of 142 chapters; text, 363 pages; 
 14 notes upon two leaves : at the end ftands, ' De I'lmprimerie.' 
 
 Le quart Volume. M.D.LXL 
 
 Six leaves, title, dedication, contents of 120 chapters ; text, 350 pages; 
 16 notes upon two leaves : at the end of the notes (tands, ' Cy fine 
 maiftre Jehan Froiflart fon quart livre et ne parle plus auant;" 
 finally, on a particular leaf, ' De I'lmprimerie.' 
 Two Volumes in folio.
 
 134 
 
 Tlie principal notices of the few printed editions of Froiffart's 
 Chronicles are fo contrived, that if we attempt to collate them without 
 Clement's Bibliotheque, t. viii. 1759, p. 471, 477, we truft to a broken 
 reed. They are all rare, extremely rare, efpecially the more ancient before 
 that of Sauvage, fo that almoft nothing of thefc occurs in the notices and 
 catalogues of books: a careful examination, therefore, of the principal 
 notices will be here in its right place. 
 
 1 . Sauvage aflerts that the work has been mutilated ; that his edition 
 is according to that of 1530, printed by Anthony Couteau, but that for 
 the amelioration of the text he has made ufe of both the older ones of 
 1505, by Michael le Noir, and of one ftill older, without date, by Anthony 
 Verard, alfo of a fragment, but that each of thefe three editions is only a 
 modern copy of the more ancient, and that all muft be accounted as one 
 copy ; that \\'ith thefe the third volume of the Mer des Hiftoires is to be 
 reckoned, in which FroilTart's words have been retained in many places, 
 as far as volume i. c. clxxvii. of his edition ; alfo that he had made ufe of 
 fome abridgments in manufcript, which had been very ufeful to him. 
 The reft in his advertifement concerns the orthography and his own notes 
 in the margin, and thole he has added more amply at the end of each 
 volume. 
 
 2. Jac. le Long In his Bibliotheque hlftorlque de la France, Paris 
 1719, f. m. p. 368. which Fabricius, in Bibliotheca med. et inf. Latinitatis, 
 vol. 11. p. 632. fq. and Struvius in Bibhotheca Hiltor. ed. 1740, p. 356. 
 fq. have followed, gives the following editions, with an anonymous 
 continuation up to 1498, Paris, by Verard, folio, four volumes; 1503, 
 1505, folio, three volumes, with the continuation up to 1513, folio, three 
 volumes; Sauvage's, 1559, 1561, and Paris 1574, Fol. Lenglet, befides the 
 reft cited, t. ii. p. 504. t. iv. p. 59. 
 
 3. In the Remarques Critiques on Bayle's Di6lionn. t. ii. p. 513, are 
 noticed an edition of FroilTart, Paris, by John Petit, without date, another 
 by Anthony Verard, without date, Sauvage's, 1559, and Paris 1574, folio. 
 
 4. Mr dc la Curne enumerates five editions, in the Mem. de I'Acad. 
 -des Infer. Paris, by Ant. Verard, without date, three volumes; Paris, by
 
 155 
 
 Michael leNoir, the 15th July 1505, alfo three volumes; Paris, by Galliot 
 du Pre, 1530, three volumes ; Sauvage's, Paris, by Gervais Mallot, 1574, 
 three volumes in folio. Clement judges very rightly, that thefe editions 
 required to be carefully defcribed by Mr de la Curne, as he had inftitutcd 
 an inquiry into FroifTirt's life, chara£ter, and hiftory. 
 
 5. Laflly, Clement has accurately defcribed two copies which he had 
 laid before him as two din:in6t ones. Thefe are briefly, vol. i. pour Francois 
 Rcynmdd, s. a. 271 leaves folio, vol. i. pour Antoine Verard, s. a. *, 271 
 leaves, fmall folio, merely with a new title-page and concluding leaf, vol. ir. 
 pour Francois Reynault, s. a. 279 leaves fmall folio; vol. ii. pour Antoine 
 Verard par Michel k Noir, 1505, the 15th July, 279 leaves folio, with a new 
 title-page and fifteen new-printed leaves at the end. Thefe fifteen leaves 
 with the name of Le Noir and the date 1505, are moft probably added to 
 this copy of the fecond volume, fo that the greater half of that belono-s to 
 an edition without date, but the lefler to the edition of 1505 ; vol. m. par 
 Antoine Verard, s. a. 231 leaves twice over; vol, iv. pour Antoine Verard 
 1518, the 7th Odfober, 106 leaves alfo twice: therefore only ^ix volumes 
 really different, of two copies, each of four volumes, all of the fame gothic 
 print ; and as this is the cafe, fo the difl:in6lion betwixt folio and fmall folio 
 may well derive its origin from the bookbinder. Clement is of opinion, 
 that all which were printed by Le Noir belong only to one and the fame 
 edition. 
 
 6. Yet Clement cites the following editions : from Robert Fillier Cata!. 
 Biblioth. Bodlei. T. i. p. 4(51. T. i. ii. in. s. a. all three pour Fr. Reynault 
 T. IV. 1513. chcxFr. Reynault (Hyde, p. 167. has only three volumes of 1505.) 
 
 * According to Mr F. K. G. Hirfching's Defcription of the Libraries in Germany, vol. in., 
 Erlangen 1788, quarto, page 464, a copy of the firft volume is found in the Mayoralty Libraiy of 
 the earl Noftitz at Prague ; alfo a fecond volume, the writing of which fhould have been cited at 
 the end. The annotation marks, that Verard had it printed at Paris 1480, perhaps as a hint that 
 the firft edition had too great an age, whilft, on the contrary, by Clement's Notices, it firft made its- 
 appearance a little before or foon after 1500, and according to Maittaire, alfo t. i. p. 156. Verard; 
 firft began to print in the year 1480.
 
 \56 
 
 from a Bibllotheca BultclUana, Paris 1711, o6l:avo, p. 667. a fecond Paris, 
 Eiijiace 1514. Folio four volumes. Finally, from the Britifh Librarian, 
 Lond. 1738. o6lavo, p. 73. one copy, T. i. with the name Fr. Reynaidt, 
 T. II. III. with the name Michel le Noh; 1505, T. iv. chez Jean Petit, 
 1518. 
 
 When all thefe notices are properly combined, the hiftory of thefe Parifian 
 Publilhers and Printers in Maittaire compared therewdth, and the editions 
 •with gothic letters regulated thereafter, the following is the refult : 1. Of 
 the firft editions, T. i. ii. in. without date, by Ant. Verard, which were 
 printed for his own publication and Francis Reynault's ; and T. iv. 
 which was printed the firft time, 1513, for Reynault, probably by Le Noir, 
 are come down to us ; whereupon Verard got his, T. iv. 1518, printed by 
 Petit. Hence the notice of two editions by Verard and Petit appears in 
 Bayle. 
 
 2. Michael le Noir has printed all the four volumes, with the date fet on 
 T. I. 1503, II. III. 1505, all for William Euftace's publication. Thefe are 
 the three volumes in Le Long, Lenglet and Hyde. But T. iv. with the 
 date 1513, for Reynault's publication, as already fuppofed, and with the 
 date 1514, for Euftace's publication, is the fecond edition. 
 
 3. The third edition, 1530, of Galliot du Pre, is come to us printed 
 tiy Anthony Couteau, Maittaire's Remarks, T. in. p. 579. not. e. That 
 thefe authors, in their circumftantial accounts of Parifian Publifhers and 
 Printers who have publilhed and printed FroilTart, nothing concerning 
 him perfonally occurs, which is a demonftration of the great rarity of thefe 
 editions. According to Hamberger, p. 642. he was to give a notice of this, 
 T. v. p. 411.; but this complete work, fo indifpenfable, but extremely 
 fcarce, I have not yet at hand. 
 
 4. Sauvage's edition was therefore the fourth, or rather, according 
 to his own aflurance, the fecond; and in the judgment of Le Long, 
 and of Lenglet, T. ii. p. 504. the moft beautiful and the fcarceft; which 
 judgment Vogt, p. '291. and Freytag App. lit. T. i. p. 342. have repeated. 
 It is not in fa6l the fcarceft, although fo httle common, that monf. profeflbr 
 Schrokh, in the annotations on Guthrie, volume x.- part i. page 350.
 
 tComplnins concerning it, that he has not been able to ufe the valuable 
 French original, as he calls it. It certainly is beautiful, like all books 
 from the printing-office of dc Tonrnes, or in Latin Torneefii. Sauvage 
 has prefixed to each volume a dedication to the duke of Montmorenci, 
 peer and conftablc of France. In the firfl:, he relates what diligence 
 was employed by him on the Annales de France* of Nicolas Gillcs, and 
 on the Memoires de THiftoire de fon Temps of M. d'Argcnton -f-, of which 
 together with Froiflart, that he had availed himfelf in his Dcduclion de 
 rHin:oire generale des Gaulcs ct du Royaume de France ; but that fince 
 he found that Froiflart had been falfified, and indeed very miferably, he 
 had wiilied to employ upon him a greater diligence. This he has a6lually 
 done, of which the copious critical and explanatory notes in the margin 
 and at the end of each volume give manifeft evidence. Therefore the 
 judgment of John le Laboureur, in Le Long, p. 368. Fabricius, p. 634-. 
 and Freytag, p. 343. may be thought very ftrange : ' D. S. qui a remis fous 
 la prefle plufieurs anciens livres ; et plufi^urs autres, qui ont travaille apres 
 lui, ONT plntot DISGRACIE ^m' ilhtflrc iiotre Iiijioirc, et ii ont fervi qii' a rendre 
 les originaux et les pr<fmiers editions plus raves et plus chcres, des vieilles 
 chroniques, de Flandres, de Froiflart, de Monflirelet, de Philippe de 
 Comines, de Joinville, et d'autres excellents hijioriens.* We find nothing 
 more of the circumftances of Sauvage's life in the Univerfal Scholar's 
 Lexicon than what appears in the title of the edition of FroiflTart ; and 
 that he had tranflated fundry works from the Latin and Italian, revifed 
 Gilles, Froifl!art (Cominasus is wanting) alfo edited a compofition unknown, 
 de la Chronique de Flandre |, les Memoires d'Olivier de la Marche §, 
 I'Hiftoire de Francion (a romance), and feveral more; referring to Ic 
 Croix du Maine Bibliotheque de France. 
 
 Sauvage appears to me to deferve both excufe and blame ; the former, 
 as he has given himfelf much trouble to publifh, according to his own 
 judgment, from more ancient editions and other fources, a better text; 
 
 * Le Long, p. 378. 
 
 t Of the much-celebrated Philip de Comines, or Cominaei, LeLong, p. 382. s- 
 t P. 808. § P, 8-79. 
 
 T
 
 138 
 
 hut blameable, that he has not collated a greater number of manufcripts, 
 for, as royal hiftoriographer, he iliould have examined thofe from which 
 the text in the more ancient editions was printed ; and by fo much tlie 
 more as he feems to have neglected this comparifon on purpofe. The 
 excellent Founder of this Library had in his own handwriting, and indeed 
 with extraordinary pains, formed fuch a copy, and correiSled it afterwards, 
 probably in the intention of preparing a new edition of this work. Thefe 
 variations are very numerous, and neatly and legibly written*, and fo 
 eonfiderable that not only many margins are written full, and in feveral 
 places fmgle leaves bound in filled up therewith, but alfo vol. i. p. 426. 
 lin. 30. from the words of ' encores auoir' to the end of p. 4:62. the 
 \\'hole printed text flruck out, and another tranfcribed on twenty-two 
 fheets and a half Hitched together, in five parcels, and added ; of which 
 fingle leaves and parcels a particular catalogue is extant, compofed by the 
 late Mr Arlet. It is therefore to be extremely regretted, particularly on 
 account of the four leaves ftolen out of the third volume of the manufcript, 
 that a collation was not alfo inftituted by the pofleiror of vol. in. iv, or 
 rather that he was hindered from it. 
 
 One of my prcdecefTors, the late re6lor and librarian Gottlob Kranz, 
 had inftituted, according to ancient cullom at both our univerfities, which 
 indeed gave the three profefTors at each much trouble, but was very 
 ufeful to the ftudents, on the loth May 1698, a Latin A£tum Oratorium, 
 concerning the curiofities of the Library, in the fchool theatre, and edited 
 it 1699, quarto. In thefe well known Memorabilia Bibliothecae publicae 
 Elifabetanae Wratiflauienfis, a Fundatore Celeberrimo Rehdigeriance diclie, 
 the manufcript is fpoken of p. 86, 87. as ' Cukiosus: Audivi pi6lurarum 
 pretium Codices hos adeo aellimabiles reddere. Historicus: Non nego 
 magnam pi6turarum elegentiam efle; fed majora hie funt, quae animam 
 meam afficiunt. Putat orbis eruditus, le textum Froiffardi egregie poffidere, 
 quern Dionyfms Salvagius, Regis Hennci II. jujju, quinquagelTuno nono 
 fuperioris Seculi anno Lugduni publicavit, led Jade decipitur, dum Codex 
 hie impofluram detegit, ctSalvagii mami omnia, quae x\ulae Gallicae dilplicebant, 
 
 * With die fame filver pen, wbich is likewife preferved in the Library,
 
 139 
 
 dclda, vixque dechiam Iliftoriae partem integram reli^lam effe, manifcdum 
 reddit. Curiosus : Res ccrte eft obfervatione digna, Codicirqiie pretium 
 vel ccntuplo auget.' Of this, jiiffii regis Ilcnrici II. I find nothing in 
 Sauvage's advertifemcnt : Rehdigcr's toilfome labour on vol. i. ii. has alfo 
 deferved citation ; and it may be fuppofed more than one-tenth of the 
 printed text is unfalfificd. In the mean time, as Kranze's work had been 
 fprcad abroad, fo our manufcript became, through it, the more known, 
 and Sauvage's edition loft its reputation. Hence this judgment is repeated 
 in Bayle, and by Le Long, by Fabricius, Lenglet, Freytag, and, finally, 
 by Hamberger, page 642. The reproach, however, of mutilation, 
 mipqftvra^ of Salvagii ynanii omnia, &c. deleta, I leave to the judgment of 
 other inquirers into hiftory, and refer to the defcription of volume i. of 
 the manufcript, that the difference of the criticifms of the FroilTartifh text 
 itfelf may illuftrate each. 
 
 An Englifli tranflation, which, according to William Nicholfon's notice 
 on Fabricius, p. 63 :J. fhould have a more accurate text, was made by John 
 lord Bourchicr, at the requeft of king Henry \^III. printed by Richard 
 Pynfon \512>, 15i!5, in two volumes in folio. Clement cites the title of 
 both volumes circumftantially, p. 476, — and quotes an edition of the firft 
 volume of this or another tranflation, without date, printed in folio by 
 William Midleton, between 1541 and 1547. 
 
 Le Long fays, p. 369, that a Flemifh tranflation was publiflied by 
 Gerrit Potters Vander-Loo in folio ; according to Mr de la Curne, by 
 Guerrit Vander-Loo. That is, however, an error of Le Long, for this 
 tranflation has never been printed, but is found in manufcript in the 
 univerfit)'-library at Leyden, the title of which, in the catalogue, p. 324, 
 is as follows : ' Chronica rerum in Gallia, et aliis regionibus geftarum, 
 audlore Johanne Froiflarto, in Belgicum fermonem tranflata by Gerrit 
 Potter vander Loo, gefchreven by handen Ja7i Heynrich Paedjfcn, in Jair 
 ons Hen. XlIIIc en LXX up ten XXVI^n dach in Januario, In charta 
 per coluinnas.'
 
 140 
 
 II. 
 
 To this copy ten leaves of vol. i. are wanting : all the reft as in the 
 foregoing. 
 
 Two volumes in folio. 
 
 This, though not a complete copy of Sauvage's edition, ranks likevvife 
 
 under the remarkable books of the Library, In the firft Silefian war the 
 
 french ambafTador to the court of Vienna, the duke of Nivernois, had 
 
 inquiries made after it of our magiftrate, by the french ambaffador to the 
 
 pruflian court, the marquis de Valori, and whether a collated tranfcript of 
 
 the manufcript with Sauvage's edition, and Rehdiger's variations, might 
 
 not' be obtained for a compenfation in money. King Frederic II. 
 
 feconded this propofal, through the baron von Bielefeld, and M. von 
 
 Jordan, whereupon the late chief burgomafter, and fenior counl'ellor, M. 
 
 von Sommerfberg, commiflioned the late provincial and high court lolicitor, 
 
 Ferdinand Chriftian Stief, on account of his great knowledge of the french 
 
 language, to undertake this talk. This man took an able linguift to his 
 
 afliftance, commenced the collation of the greater part of the firft 
 
 volume of the printed copy, to wit, as far as the firft volume of the 
 
 manufcript goes, which has been noticed above, together with the variations, 
 
 and it was fent to the amballador at Vienna. This ambaftador afked the 
 
 late Stief, under his own hand^ for the continuation for the fecond 
 
 volume, which he had alfo completed, as tar as p. 8. vol. iii. He 
 
 laboured no farther, nor was the collation of the fecond volume fent for, 
 
 nor a reward ever thought of. His two brothers, ftill living, have 
 
 beftowed this remainder of the Salvagian edition, with all the variations 
 
 of the fecond volume, and of the commencement of the third, upon 
 
 the Library, as a very important prefent. Thele variations make feveral 
 
 fmgle leaves and layers ftitched together, and are legibly written. I only 
 
 regret that they do not extend to the whole of the third volume, as.
 
 Ul 
 
 thereby the text, upon the four loft leaves of the manufcrlpt, might have 
 been as happily fupplied as has been done in the fecond. 
 
 III. 
 
 5. Hiftoire et Chronique memorable de Meflire Jehan Froissart. 
 
 Reveu et corrige fur divers Exemplaires, et fuivant les bons 
 
 Auteurs, par Denis Suuvage de Fontenailles en Brie, Hiftoriographe 
 
 du Trefchretien roy Henry deuxiefme de ce nom. Premier volume; 
 
 A Paris, chez Jehan Ruelle, rue Saint Jacques, a I'enfeigne Samt 
 
 Hierofme. M.D.LXXIIU, 
 Eight leaves, title, dedication, preface, and contents of the chapters ; 
 
 text, 4'23 pages ; one page and li leaves notes. 
 Second Volume, 
 Six leaves, title, dedication, contents; text, 288 pages; two leaves 
 
 notes. . 
 Tiers Volume, 
 
 Four leaves, title and contents; text, 333 pages; two pages notes. 
 Quart Volume, 
 Four leaves, title and contents ; text, 3'21 pages and a half: from there 
 
 as far as to the 324th page, the notes. 
 
 One volume in folio. 
 
 This laft edition is merely a copy of the former, indeed with the fame 
 kind of letters, but the lines thrown clofer together, wiiereby more than one 
 alphabet was fpared. The dedications alfo of both the laft volumes have 
 been left out. In rerpe6l of beauty, the former has the pre-eminence, but 
 in no great degree. Mr de la Curne, in Clement, p. 473, calls the pubhflier 
 Geivais Mallot, and announces three volumes.
 
 14-2 
 
 IV. 
 
 C. Fragment de I'Hiftoire de Froiflard, touchant la feditlon fai6te i 
 Paris, du Temps du Roy Charles VI. et de ce qui s'en enluivit. 
 E?ife?nble vn autre du mej'nie argianent, lire de la Mer des Hijloires de 
 Gaguin. M.D.LXIIII. 23 pages. 
 
 An o6lavo volume *. 
 
 This is not the fragment which Sauvage had made ufe of, as mentioned 
 above, but a literal copy in a running hand of his own text after the Lyons 
 edition, vol. ii. from p. 230. lin. 2. from below, from the words of ' tant 
 exploita le roy de France,' as far as page 233. lin. 29. 30. to the words, 
 * maiftre Jehan des Marefts.' It contains the hiftory of the com:notions at 
 Paris, in the beginning of 1383, under the young king Charles VI. 
 differently than Daniel relates them, t. v. p. 301, s. Guthrie, vol. x. 
 part I. page 509. viz. that ere the king would make his entry into 
 Paris, he had firfl: halted with his army at St Denis, and fent officers to 
 Paris, who were to prepare all things, that they might lodge in the Louvre 
 and other palaces, and alfo to obferve the behaviour of the inhabitants : 
 that thefe had made known their defign to the Parifians, who, to difplay 
 their bravery to the king, had affembled in arms, to welcome him, when 
 perhaps he (liould need them in his wars : that fo 20,000 armed Parifians 
 had drawn themfelves up before the city in the moft gallant array, 
 and thus waited the king's arrival ; but that fome of the king's army had 
 entered into negotiations with them, and wilhed to know their leader; 
 
 * I number entire works with roman charadters, fingle volumes with oriental ones ; in fmgle 
 volumes, however, more works are often bound together ; fo I can by no means pafs over thefe, 
 on account of their completenefs, unlefs they alfo fhould refer to that work, of which, conliftently 
 witli our defign, notice is given, and in this piece reference is made to that which is extant of FroifTart, 
 in the Library, and to his Chronicle.
 
 143 
 
 and that they had anfvvcred they had none, but were all to be confidcred 
 as one, and were at the command of the king their mafter, and of 
 their lordfliips. At laft they had gone home, one after another, and 
 difarmed : that upon this, indeed, the entry of the king followed 
 m tranquillity, — but that a great turbulence had, however, manifeftcd 
 itfelf immediately, fo that the whole condu6l of the Parifians was 
 then interpreted into an inlurredlion, and fome were punilhed by 
 fine, and feveral executed ; — among the latter, the advocate, John 
 Defmarets, was one of the mod: confiderable. In Gaguin's Mer des 
 Hilloircs, of which hereafter, this circumftance is omitted, and a 
 premeditated infurredion a6lually laid to the charge of the Parifians, 
 which the king had difcovered at Courtray : this accufation Daniel 
 alfo adopts. This particular copy has indilputably been prepared by the 
 Reformers at Lyons in de Tournes, with defign, on occafion of the great 
 troubles under king Charles IX. as from the beautiful print may be 
 judged. 
 
 This fragment is bound before the following coIle6lion of fmall fcarce 
 works, which altogether refer to the memorable troubles. 
 
 2. Epiftre liminaire du Livre des Definitions de Medecine, dcdie a 
 tres illuftre et puiffant feigneur, monfeigneur de Montmorancy, 
 chevalier de I'ordre, premier marefchal et gouverneur de I'lfle de 
 France, nouvellement traduitte de Latin en Frangois. JNLD.LXIIIL 
 One fheet. 
 
 This dedicafion has for its author one John de Gorris, or Gorrasus, a 
 Reformer, and at that time an eminent teacher of the fcience of medicine 
 at Paris, who was twice expelled, and refers to the freedom of religion, — 
 dated the ift Auguft. The Ihort advertilement is of the 1 2th Novemben 
 See the Univerlal Scholar's Lexicon. 
 
 3. Epiftre d'vne Damoifelle Francoife a vne fienne amie dame eftrangere, 
 
 fur la mort d'excellente et vertueufe dame, Leonor de Roye, princefle
 
 de Conde. Contenant le teftament et derniere volonte d'icelle. 
 Enfemble, le tombeau de ladicle dame. M.D.LXIUI. Seven 
 half flieets. 
 
 Le Long, p. 548. N. 10399. The authorefs fubfcrlbes herfelf J. D, V. 
 dated Conde in Brie, the 31fl: July. This firft confort of Louis de Bourbon, 
 ■prince of Conde, died 1564-, the 3lft July, in a very edifying manner. 
 
 4. Remonftrance envoyee au Roy par la NoblefTe de la Religion 
 reformee du pais et comte du Maine, fur les ajjafsinats, pilleries, 
 faccagemens de maijbns, /editions, violemens de femmes, el aulres exces 
 horribles, commis depiiis la publication de Vedit de pacification dedafis 
 [edit comte, et prefentc a fa mujcjll a Rofdlon le x iour cV Aoufi 1564-. 
 Auec vn aduertiflement des crimes execrables aduenus dedant ledit 
 pays depuis le mois de Juillet 1564, iufques au mois de May 15G5, 
 enuoye a monfieur le marefchal de Vielville. Psal. cxl. Jc fgay 
 (jue Dieu fera jujiice a celuy qui efi afflige, et quifaict au pauure iiijii/iice 
 vnjour par luyfera iuge. Without date, — 1 12 pages. 
 
 The remonftrance goes to page 55. The advertifement is by an 
 anonymous hand; according to Le Long, p. 764. N. 14898. by Gervais 
 le Barbier, Manceau at the court of the king of Navarre, who, as Le Long 
 writes, was murdered in the year 1572. It announces the place of printing 
 Orleans, and the year 1565. 
 
 5. Difcours pour la Subvention des Affaires du Roy, et reftabliflement 
 des fief nobles de la France en leur premiere nature. M.D.LXIIIL 
 One hundred and eleven pages. 
 
 The prefixed notice goes from p. 3. to p. 7. Le Long, p. 595, 
 :1SI. 11587.
 
 i45 
 
 G. Difcours dVne Difpute tenue a Orleans entre vn des Miniftrcs de 
 I'Eglife Chreftienne, et vn cordelier qui prefcha au temple fainae 
 croix en ladi6le ville. A Lyon. 15(54. Thirty-eight pages. 
 
 This difcourfe was held the 2lfl: July 1563, in the prefence of the kino-'s 
 ■lieutenant of Cipicrre. 
 
 7. Confeil fur le Faicle du Concile de Trente, par Meflire Charles du 
 MouLiN,do6teur es droi«5ts, profefleur des faincles lettres, jurifconfulte 
 de France et Germanie, confeiller et maiftre des requefts de I'hotel de 
 
 la royne de Navarre. Pfal. i. Bien-heureux ejl Vliommc 
 
 3 Efdr. iv. Veritas manet. A Lyon pour ledit dv Moulin. 
 
 Auec privilege du roy. ISG-i. Four leaves, title and dedication; 
 ¥1 numbered leaves. 
 
 According to Le Long, p. 131. N. 254S. this work came out alfo in 
 
 Latin in the fame year at Lyons, and in 06t. 15(35 at Poitiers. Niceron 
 
 fpeaks of the author in page 155. 191. of whofe works this is the 36th, 
 
 and for which he was thrown into prifon, as Niceron, page 168. 
 
 -circumftantially relates it. 
 
 8. Brief Difcours fur I'Eftat prefent, et des Moyens pour remedier aux 
 Troubles qu'on peult craindre cy apres. M.D.LXIIII. Thirty 
 pages. 
 
 9. Brief Difcours de I'Occafion des Troubles et Diflentions d'aujourd'huy 
 au fait de la Religion, et moyen d'y obuier. Traduit du Latin d'un 
 excellent homme de ce temps, addrefTe au roy. M.D.LXIIir. 
 Twenty-two pages. 
 
 Concerning thefe two works, I have found no notice in Le Long.
 
 14^ 
 
 10. Djfcours fur le Conge impetre par monfieur le cardinal de Lorraine, 
 de faire porter armes defend ucs a fes gens, pour la tuition et defenfe 
 de fa perfonne. Et fur fe qui luy aduint a I'occafion de cela, a fon 
 arriuee a Paris, le viii. de Januier M.D.LXV. Auec la copk dudit 
 conge, contcnu en C autre page. M.D.LXV, Eighty-eight pages. 
 
 The author, according to Le Long, p. 399. N. 7752, is the unfortunate 
 Jacob Paul Spifame, bifhop of Nevers, who, afterwards, as Le Long writes, 
 having become a Huguenot, married at Geneva, and was there beheaded as 
 a ftate-criminal. But let what is mentioned concerning this affair, in the 
 Univerfal Scholar's Lexicon, be compared therewith, Le Long cites a few 
 other works of his, N. 7738. and p. 918. N. 7707. 
 
 1 1 . La Reponfe fai6le par monfieur le marefchal de Montmorency quand 
 on luy prefenta le conge obtenu par monfieur le cardinal de Lorraine, 
 de faire porter armes defendues a fes gens; et le lendemain enuoyee 
 au parquet dcs meffieurs les gens du roy, a ce que perfonne n'en 
 peuft pretendre ignorance. Enfemble, Le difcours du voyage faict a 
 Paris par ivoyifieur rad^niral au mois de Januier dernier. M.D.LXV, 
 Three and three-fourth half fheets. 
 
 Le Long, p. 400. N. 7753. 
 
 V-.'- 
 
 Froiffardi, NobililTimi Scriptoris Gallici, Hijioriarum opus omne, iam 
 primum et breviter collcctum, et Latino fennone redditum d Joanne 
 Slcidano, Parifis, apud Andream Wechelum, 1562, ten leaves, title 
 and preface ; 131 leaves, text ; fix leaves, index. 
 
 In fextodecimo.
 
 147 
 
 Sleidanus compofed this abridgment during his abode in France, 
 . confequently after the edition of IbSO, and infcribed it to the cardinal John 
 du Bcllay, birtiop of Paris, his great patron, from whom he received a 
 penfion. In this handibme dedication, of the 12th July 1537, which 
 is at the fame time a preface, he recommends learning in general, 
 particularly to all who take part in the government ; principally the 
 reading of good hiftorians, fuch as Froiflart, whom, on account of his 
 over-great prolixity, he has reduced to an epitome, without omitting any 
 thing important. But the englifh author, Humphrey Llwyd, in Le Long, 
 p. 368, accufes him, notwithftanding, that out of partiality for the French, 
 he has pafTed over the moft glorious a6tions of the Engliili, and has 
 defcribed many a thing otherwife than in Froiffart. This abridgment, 
 on account of the ftyle merits every confideration, but is too briefly 
 arranged, which Sauvage alfo allows ; and we are unable therefrom to form 
 an idea of the fpirit of the original. The following may ferve to Ihow 
 how far we may rely upon this abridgment. Sleidanus relates, page 7 '2, the 
 condu6l of the Parifians before the entry of king Charles VI. which I have 
 briefly extra6led from the fragment, and judges the Parifians thus: ' Sed 
 profe6l6 longe diverfa cogitarunt ante, et nifi vi6lor ille rediiflet, mira 
 
 contigiflent. Jufli redire in urbem et deponere arma, paruerunt, Per 
 
 otium deinde, ex confilio patruorum, caepit eos pro mentis trafbare.' 
 FroiflTart's judgment, in p. 5. of the fragment, is quite otherwife : ' Mieux 
 leur vaulfift s' eftre tenus quois en leurs maifons. Car celle monllre leur 
 fut depuis conuertie en grande feruitude : fi comme vous orrez recorder. 
 IIz difoyent qu'ils faifoyent tout ce pour bien : mais ont I'entendit a mal.' 
 
 Le Long, p. 368. notices the following editions very briefly, but 
 
 rightly, in refpe6l of places and dates; i7i octavo, Parifiis, 1537, 1562; 
 
 .in folio, Francofurti, 1578. Heidelbergac, 1587. Li douze, Francofurti, 
 
 1584. Amftelodami, 1640, 1656. The more circumftantial notice is the 
 
 following. 
 
 1 . Froflardi Hiftoriarum opus omne, jam pridem et breviter colledlum 
 et Latino fermone redditum ; ex officina Simonis Colinai. Paris, 1537. 8. 
 Maittaire, T. in. p. '269, The ' pridem' ought to be ' primum.' Should
 
 148 
 
 not the name of Slcidanus alfo ftand in the title? — 2. The foregoing, very 
 neatly printed, in the Library. — 3. With Sleidanus' Latin tranflation of 
 Philip Comincs, and Claudius Sefellius de Rep. Gall, in the colle6tiou 
 Tres Gallicarum rerum Scriptorcs nobiliflimi. Francof. ad Moan. Ex Off. 
 Typogr. Andr. Wccheli, 1578, folio, in the Library. — 4. Among the 
 Scriptoribus Rerum Britannicarum Hier Commelhu Heidelberg. 1587. fol. 
 concerning which fcarce colle6tion Freytag treats in Appar. litter. T. i. 
 p. 337. fqq. — 5. Before, and with, the Cotninao Francof. ap. haredes Andr. 
 Wccheli 1584. 12. 914 pages. — 6. The fame Amftel. ap. J. et Corn. Blaeu. 
 1640. 12. 670 pages. — 7. Alfo Amftel. ap. J. Blaeu, 1656. 12. 664 pages,. 
 Concerning theie fee Freytag 1. c. p. 343. 
 
 I yet fubjoin, 8. a French tranflation of this Latin abridgment, from 
 a French work, Lcs Oeuvres de /. Skidan qui concernent les Hiftoires qu'il 
 aefcrites. Geneve, chcz J. Crefpin, 15 66, folio, in the Library. — 9. Thelecond 
 edition with the Gominccan, Hanovi^ typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium 
 Marnium, et heredes Joan. Aubrii 1606. Duodecimo, 951 pages. See 
 Fabricius, p. 634. The editions in duodecimo, of which I have before 
 me, N. 5. 6. 9. ftill occur fometimes : both the Paris editions, N. 1. 2. are 
 much more rare. 
 
 8. 9. Le premier volume De la mer des hyftoires et croniques de 
 France. One title-leaf ; one leaf, preface ; ten leaves, contents ; text 
 267 numbered leaves: one leaf with the mark of the publilher. 
 
 Le fecond volume de la mer des hyftoires et chroniques de France, 
 Eight leaves, title and contents; text, 156, and 116 numbered 
 leaves. 
 
 Le tiers volume de la mer des hyftoires et croniques de France. One 
 title-leaf; feven leaves, contents; text, 210 numbered leaves.
 
 149 
 
 ILe quatriefme liure de la mer dcs hyftoires et croniques de France 
 nouvellement. Imprime a Paris. One title leaf; 15 leaves, 
 contents; text, ii9S, and 80 numbered leaves. 
 
 Two volumes in fmall folio, . 
 
 Bound in old handfome french leather, with the leaves and covers well 
 gilt, together with the arms from the founder's library. This work 
 properly pertains to the general french hiflory, and, for that reaCon, mud 
 be included here, as Sauvage has availed himfelf of it : it yields in nothino- to 
 the firft edition of FroifTart in rarity, and bears a great refemblance to it, 
 and therefore ferves as a confirmation of the notice concernino- it. The 
 print is gothic throughout, on clean and good paper, with columns divided, 
 each into 42-45 lines, — the larger and fmaller initial letters, efpecially in 
 the firft volume, are feldom ornamented, — alfo abbreviations, Marks of 
 diftindtion are only, as in the manufcript, a point and long comma. No 
 catchwords are extant, but fignatures to ternions; and each leaf of the 
 text, vol. I, II. IV, is numbered, vol. iii. with P^s, On each title-leaf 
 the L of the Le is a grotefque wood-cut of the fize of the fourth 
 part of the face of the columns, with mean figures of mens heads and 
 animals. Here and there are other wood-cuts, not much better, 
 efpecially where the hiflory of a new king commences : the largeft 
 occurs on the revei-fe of the title-leaf of the firft volume, alio on the 
 181ft leaf of that volume, a fuitable place, but very unfeafonably at the 
 commencement of the text in the iii. and iv. volume, and once more at 
 leaf 216, whilft it refers to the hiftory of king Clovis, and how he triumphs 
 over the Alemanni ; an angel delivers a fhield with the three lilies to a monk ; 
 another monk delivers a fimilar one to the king, in order to exchange it for- 
 the old one with three toads; and Clotildis points to the Saviour upon a 
 crols, togetlier with a dove with the flafh of undlion : in the other half of 
 the engraving Clovis ftands in the baptifmal font, and Clotildis kneels 
 before an altar. 
 
 The preface, with the fuperfcription : ' Le prologue de Taiteur,' is 
 addrelTed to the duke of Angouleme, as fucceflbr of the raoft Chriftian .
 
 150 
 
 ' kings, confequently to king Francis I. who, in 1515, fucceeded Louis XIL 
 The motto is the Ipeech of Dido (in the ^neid of Virgil, i. 569. ' Quis 
 genus iEneadum, quis Trojas nefciat urbem ?') The author aflumes the 
 perfon of Mercury, and cenfures the new pi6lures and tapeftries of the 
 French hiftory, becaufe they were made according to falfified accounts. 
 That he has therefore induced the hiftoriographer of the prince John de 
 Courtils to undertake a fuperior work. He univerfally interprets the ftory 
 of Paris, and the three goddeffes, &c. as relative to the reign of the new 
 king, principally becaufe the royal family is of Trojan origin, which the 
 author has as happily endeavoured to prove, a priori, from Adam, as one 
 J, C. N. P. M. in his Newell Genealogy of the Pruflian royal Family, 
 Halle, 1724', o6lavo, two fheets and a half, has done, a pojieriori, to 
 Adam. 
 
 The firft volume commences with the hiftory of the creation, goes on 
 to the hiftory of the gods and goddeffes, to the Trojan hiftory ; and this 
 divifion concludes with the times of Attila on the I70th leaf. The 171ft 
 has the new fuperfcription : 
 
 Cy commence le premier liure des fai6ls et geftes des Francoys extraict 
 en partie de la compofition du venerable et religieux frere Robert 
 Gagidyi, miniftre general de la fain6te Trinite. 
 
 Under it is the crowned French arras with the three lilies, environed with 
 the chain of the order of St Michael, and two Salamanders as fupporters. 
 This volume concludes with the hiftory of Pepin. At the end ftands : 
 
 Cy fine le premier volume de la mer des hyftoires et croniques de France, 
 Extrai6te en partie de tons les anciens croniqueurs, qui ont efcript 
 puis la creation du monde, des fai6ts et geftes des Francoys, et dont 
 ils font defcendus iufques au temps de Pepin. Et fuft afcheue de
 
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 imprimer le dernier lour d'06tobre Mil cinq cens et dix fept, Pour 
 Gdlliot (hi Pre, librayre demoarant fur le pont noftre Dame, A 
 I'enfeigne de la Gallee, ayant fa boutique en la grand lalle du ]*alays 
 au fecond pillier • 
 
 On the laft leaf, this fign is reprefented, with the fuperfcription, — • 
 
 VOGUE LA GALLEE, UndcmCath GALLIOT. DV. PRE. 
 
 The text of the fecond volume begins thus : ' Cy commence le deuxiefme 
 liure de la mer des hifloires et croniques de France. Et premier de la 
 genealogie de I'empereur Charles le grand.' The firfl: divifion, of 15S. 
 leaves, concludes with the hidory of Louis VII. The fecond begins on 
 \\6 frefh- numbered leaves, with the hiftory of Phihp II. with the furname 
 Dieu-donne, and concludes with the death of the queen Margaret, confort 
 of the king Louis of Navarre. Leaf 110, and forwards, a good deal occurs 
 concerning rooting out the knights-templars. At the end, ftands : 
 
 Cy finift le fecond volume de la mer des hyfloires et croniques de France, 
 ouquel font contenus lea faits et geftes de plufieurs roys de France, 
 et plufieurs incidences. Imprime nouuellement a Paris. L'an mil 
 cinq. cens. xvii. le xxix. iour d'06lobre. Par Michel le Noir libraire 
 jure en I'uniuerfite de Paris, demourant en la rue faindl lacques 
 a I'enfeigne de la rofe blanche couronnee. . 
 
 Under it the arms of this Printer, with the motto, ' Ceft mon defir de 
 Dieu fervir pour acquerir fon bon plaifir.'. 
 
 The third volume commences with the hiflrory of king Louis X. What 
 now flands on leaf 17. 17 3, is Froiffart's text, moflly verbatim, as Sauvage 
 has given it, vol. i. p. 3. 205. cap. 4. 176. From thefe, however, the 
 following deviates from Froiflart remarkably, and it is all more briefly 
 conceived. This volume concludes with the death of king John the good, 
 1364, At the end ftands only : -
 
 •152 
 
 Cy finillent les faits et geftcs du roy Jehan qui eft la fin de ce trolziefme 
 volume de la mer des hiftoires et croniques de France. 
 
 On the laft page, ftands the device of John Petit ; without date. 
 
 Of the fourth volume, the firft divifion terminates with the death of 
 Louis XI. by many .grievous difeafes, concerning which it is faid : 
 ' Lelquellcs maladies luy puiflcnt valoir au falut de fon ame et luy donner 
 fon paradis par fa mifericorde celuy qui vit et regne au ficcle des fiecles, 
 Amen.' The fecond divifion, and wirh it the whole work, terminates 
 v»ith the year 1516, in-06lober. At the end ftands, 
 
 Cy finift le quatriefme liure de la mer des hyftoires et croniques de 
 France, nouuellement imprime a Paris le mecredy dixiefme jour dc 
 Mars, Lan mil cinq cens et xviij. 
 
 It has alfo fimilar marks of the publiflier, printer, and date, as in the 
 feft edition of Froiflart. For even the letters in the text, in all the four 
 volumes, are one and the fame ; yet, however, a remarkable difference 
 difplays itfelf in the initial letters. Therefore, I judge, 1. That Galliot du 
 Pre is the publiftier of the whole work ; that he has been pleafed with the 
 feme ill-fliaped L for an impreffion to all the four titles, alfo the wood-cut 
 of Clovis's hiftory in the third and fourth volume : 2. Both the firft volumes 
 having been printed at the fame time at two printing-offices, they were 
 finiflied towards the end of 06lober 1517, — the faid wood-cut does not 
 occur in the fecond volume, — the fecond by Michel le Noir, the firft by 
 himfelf or another : 3. The third and fourth volume having been printed, 
 one quickly after the other, from the beginning of November 1517, till 
 towards March 1518, by Petit, as this wood-cut even occurs in both; alfo 
 the initial letters have fimilar decorations. If Clement had compared the 
 initial letters in both copies of Froiflart, he had been able to prove ftill 
 more accurately his judgment, that only the fame edition is given before 
 J 5 30; as, on the contrary, from the above-mentioned reafons, efpecially
 
 153 
 
 Tjy virtue of Sauvage's teftimony, they mufl be received as two different 
 ones. 
 
 The author and compiler of the whole work is John de Courtils. His 
 own work goes only as far as vol. i. leaf 170. ; from the 17 1ft leaf, indeed, 
 he has ufed Robert Gaguin, but only in part, whilft in vol. in. he has 
 tranfcribed much from Froiflart ; but afterwards he has no more ufed 
 Gaguin verbatim. What now concerns the troubles at Paris in the above 
 mentioned fragment, 1383, was particularly printed, with the text from 
 FroiiTart, with the notice from the Mer dcs Iliftoircs de Gaguin; fo the 
 paflage in this Mer des hift. et des cron. de France, vol. iv. fol. 53. b. 
 fol. 54. a. which alfo Daniel, a. a. O. has followed, belongs indeed to this 
 place; but fuch fragment deviates remarkably from this French text, and is 
 truly a verbal tranflation from Rob. Gaguini Compendio fuper Francorum 
 geftis, Paris, 1504, fmall folio, fol. 98. b. fol. 99. a. alfo in the Library. 
 Hence I have before me three different accounts of this fingle tranfaclion : 
 1. Froiflart's in Sauvage's edition; 2. in the Compendio Gaguini and 
 tranflated, printed feparately ; 3. in this Mer des hift. et des cron. dc 
 France. 
 
 Le Long, p. 388, N. 7754. notices two editions: I. two volumes in 
 folio, by du Pre, 1514, 1516; 2. the prefent in four volumes in folio, the 
 very fame, 1517, 1518. He calls the author J. de Courtils, and quotes the 
 paffage from the preface, — ' J'ay ftimule et enardi rentendement du tien 
 ferviteur Jean de Courtils,' &c. which notice, however, might fignifyjuft 
 fo much as that John de C. has inftigated John de C. if we did not read 
 in the preface itfelf, that John de C. fpeaks of himfelf in the perfon of 
 Mercury. Le Long further mentions, that the author declares to have 
 undertaken his work at the command of Anne of Bretagne ; but I find no 
 word in the preface concerning this Anne, although I have read it feveral 
 times. He further notices, 1. that p. 27 1. vol. i. of the fecond edition, 
 commences another work, entitled, ' De la Source et de I'Origine des 
 Francois, des P'aits et Geftes des Roys de France :' 2. that this was taken 
 from the Mer des Croniques jufqu' au regne de Charlemagne : 3. thence 
 to the reign of Charles Vlll. from the third edition of the Grandes 
 Chroniques de France : 4. that du Chcfne has giren this work tlie name 
 
 X
 
 154 
 
 of the Chronlqnes de Saint Denis : finally, that the Chronique ordinaire de 
 Louis XII. is different from that in this edition. 
 
 To this I remark as follows, L Not at page 271. but at feuilL 171. does 
 the other work begin, — the title of which alfo, as has been noticed in the 
 extant copy of the fecond edition, reads quite otherwife, where mention 
 is made of Gaguin, which Le Long did not at all recollec!^; : 2, As by this 
 inquiry we fail out of one fea into another *, fo is this mer des cron. jufqu' 
 au R. de Ch. M. another abridgment from very many chronicles, all which 
 Le Long, p. 386. N. 7536. calls Froiffart's, Gaguin's, &c. and publifhed 
 as a tranflation by one Pierre Defrey, at Paris, by du Pre, 1515, folio, 
 augmented 1527, 1530, 1536. Hence, indifputably, the above-mentioned 
 fragment was printed from a Mer des Hift. de Gaguin, yea truly from this 
 as a verbal tranflation. 3. The Grandes Chroniques de France have been 
 thrice printed, 1476, 1493, and 1514; each time three volumes in folio, 
 according to Lenglct, T. iv. p. 43. 4. Even thefe, as Lenglet advertifes, 
 are commonly called Les Grandes Chroniques de St Denys, as they were 
 compiled in this abbey. 5. What is meant by Chron. ord. de Louis XII.. 
 1 have not been able to find out.. 
 
 VII. 
 
 10. 1 1. Volume premier des Chroniques D'Engverran de Monstrelet 
 Gentil-Homme iadis demourant a Cambray en Cambrefis. Contenant 
 les cruelles guerres ciuilles entre les maifons d'Orleans et de 
 Bourgogne, I'occupation de Paris et Normandie par les Anglois, 
 I'expulfion d'iceux, et autre chofes memorablcs aducnues de fon 
 temps en ce Royaume, et pays eltranges. Hijioire de hel cxcmple el 
 de suind fruict aux Francois, commenccant eu i'an M.CCCC. ou 
 
 * A fimilar work, La Mer des Hiftoires, Paris, alio by Galliot tlu Pic, 1536, two parts, Lirgc 
 foUo, with a gothic charadler, is in the Library.
 
 loo 
 
 finifl: ccHc de Jean Froifart, ctfinifant en Cen M.CCCC.LXVII. pen 
 outre le coynmnicemenf de celle de Meff. Philippe de Commines. Rcueue 
 et corrigee fur rexemplaire dc la librairic du roy, et cnrichic 
 d'abbregez pour rintrodu6lion d'icelle, et de tables fort copicufes. 
 A Paris, chez Pierre riluillier, rue Sainct Jaques a r01i\icr. 
 M.D.LXXII. Auec priuilegc du roy. 
 
 One title-leaf; three leaves, dedication of the publiiher riluillier and 
 Chaudiere to the king, the firll: November 1571, on one page ; a 
 lliort extra6l from all the three volumes, on five pages ; one leaf, 
 preface ; feven leaves, contents of 268 num.bered chapters according 
 to the order of the leaves ; text, 324- leaves ; ten leaves, alphabetical 
 index, on feven pages ; corre6lions on three pages. 
 
 Volume fecond des Chroniques. Cambrefis, A Paris, A I'Oliuier de 
 Pierre I'Huillier, 1572. One title-leaf; one leaf, preface; fix 
 leaves, contents; text, 201 leaves; one blank leaf; three leavc^ 
 alphabetical index ; one leaf, corrections. 
 
 Volume troifiefme. Chez Pierre. M.D.LXXII, One title-leaf; 
 eight leaves, contents; one blank; text, 235 kavcs ; ten leaves,, 
 alphabetical index ; one leaf, conx^tions. 
 
 Two volumes in large folio. 
 
 At the end of the text of each volume (lands : * Cy finift le 
 
 volume d'Enguerran de Monftrelct, Auecques les grandes Chroniques des 
 Roys de France : des Papes regnans en leur temps : et plufiers autres 
 nouuellcs chofes aduenues en Lombardie : es Itales et autres diuers pais, es 
 temps du regne defdits Roys. Le tout fait et adioufte auecques la Chronique 
 dudit de Monftrelet, acheue d'imprimer a Paris, par Jean le Blanc, Taa de 
 grace mille cinq cens feptante et un.' 
 
 The prefent copy is on the bcft paper, excellently printed, with a broad 
 margin, and generally, as one finds it in many old books, the print has 
 been bordered with red hnes, wliich give it a very good appearance, h
 
 155 
 
 has, which I cannot pafs over, exceedingly handfome bindings, covered 
 with gilt foliage and decorations, with variegated leather on red, as if 
 inlaid, — fo fkilfully gilt, that able bookbinders declare and admire them for 
 mafler-pieccs. 
 
 On the reverfe fide of the title-leaf of the firft volume ffeands- a iTiort 
 poem of the publifher to one P. Camin at Cambray, the birth-place of 
 Monftrelet. In the dedication to the king the work is praifed : the great 
 rarity of the firft: edition, with gothic letters noticed as an occafion for this 
 new one, and afllft:ance requefted on account of the printing expenles. 
 The preface of the author commences with an eulogium of the beginning 
 of Salluji. Bell. Catil. on heroic deeds; he then fpeaks of himlelf, — 
 of his youth, — and of this work as a continuation of Froiflart, which 
 commences with the year 1400, the firft: volume of which ends with the 
 death of king Charles VI. the 2'2d 06lober 1422.. In this volume are Imall 
 fe6lions numbered as chapters, in the others they are omitted. The preface 
 to the fecond volume is fmiilar to the firft. This ends with May 1 444. 
 
 The third volume has no preface. Monftrelet's work ends leaf 131, 
 with the year 1467. Hereupon follows, on leaf 132, the preface of an 
 anonymous hand, who pledges himfelf to be willing to live and die as a 
 true Frenchman ; and advertiies, that having read Gaguin's, Froiflart's 
 and Monftrelet's Chronicles, he had undertaken to continue them. As 
 a begmning, he makes fome additions to Monftrelet, and concludes the 
 whole at Q6lober 1516, under king Francis I, The title of the columns 
 of leaf 1:32 is in thefe terms : ' Autres nouvelles Chroniques nouvellement 
 additionees.' Thefe additions are no new work, but the beginning, as far 
 as leaf 135. b. excepted, tranfcribed verbatim from the Mer des iijit. et 
 Cron. de France, viz. from Chron. leaf 135. b. as far as leaf 20b. a. the 
 remainder of the firft divifion of the Mer des Hift. voL iv. fol. 218. 288. 
 and leaf ^;08. b. as far as to the end of the whole iecond divifion of the Mer 
 des Hilt. vol. iv. 
 
 According to Le Long, p. 377. N. 7416, and Lenglet, T. iv. p. 61. 
 there are three editions of this work. 1. Pans, by V'erard, 1 iys, three 
 volumes folio. — 2. Pans, Le Noir, 1512, folio. — 3. With the continuation 
 as far as 15 16, and corre6led, two volumes in folio, _Paris, 1372, 1595^
 
 157 
 
 1693, one and the fame edition with thefe three dates, which is the one that, 
 according to Le Long, was edited by Sauvage, although nothing at all is 
 mentioned concerning him in the dedication or the advertifement. Bayle, 
 in his Di<5tionn. T. in. p, 411. is acquainted with no older edition than of 
 1511: he cites from Du Chefne, a Parifian one of 1603, of which it is well 
 to doubt : finally, one ftill in the Louvre, which miflake Le Lono- has 
 already marked. All the editions are exceedingly rare: the firll has 
 remained unknown to Maittaire and Denis. 
 
 Bayle informs us that Monftrelet was governor of Cambray. Of his 
 life, no more is known. Le Long blames him, equally with FroiiTart, 
 becaufe he has not written better; alfo that he is too partial towards the 
 houfe of Burgundy, and that he has filled fo many volumes with a hiitory of 
 67 years ; although it is true that he has made all things clear by inferted 
 (late-papers, treaties. &c. which add greater value to his work. According 
 to Lenglet, he is fomewhat lefs partial than Froiflart, but, for all that, very 
 favourable to the houfe of Burgundy. The laft is alfo Bayle's opinion, 
 Connoifieurs aflure us, like Froiflart, the editions with gothic letters have 
 been lefs altered than the later ones. 
 
 The conclufion in the article de Monjirelct, in the Univerfal Scholar's 
 Lexicon, part iii. page 6'iO, above, — ' There yet lies alfo at Breflau a 
 beautiful manufcript thereof, which fhould be ftill more perfe6t,' — is a flip 
 of memory, for it refers to Froiflart, and ihould be wholly ftruck out. 
 
 If, inftead of hindering the printing and circulation of more folid works, 
 throu2:h the indefcribable multitude of romances and romancino: hiftories, 
 many important old chronicles were made more known by good tranllations, 
 but not abridgments, as Sleidan has done, the more accurate know^ledge of 
 that which in different ftates has already palfed, in conjun6tion with that 
 which happens at prefent, would give the judgment a morejuft direetion;. 
 at the leaft, for the lufficiently confirming the" lliacos intra muros peccatur 
 et extra.' The dclcriptions alfo, of fo many battles, fieges, marches, 
 circuniftantially defcribed by fuch authors, efpecially petty war-adventures, 
 procure tiie men of the trade net a little emolument.
 
 i
 
 SOME 
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 
 
 1. 
 
 V_/NE of the mod important events in the French hiftory is tlie adembly 
 ordered by king John the good, in the year 1355, at Paris, of the three 
 eflates, — of the clergy, of the nobihty, and, for the firft time, of the 
 citizens, — to procure himfelf money for a new war with England. 
 Guthrie relates it in the General Hiftory of the World, volume x. part r. 
 p. 423. 426. together with many of the remonftrances which the ftates had 
 to prefent, with the remarkable judgment thereupon ; that the ordinances 
 of the flates at that time by the French, with refpeft to the imports, may 
 be confidered as their Magna Charta. Daniel, T. v. p. 22. 24. has 
 wholly omitted the complaints of the ftates. It ftands in Froiflart, vol. r. 
 ch. CLv. p. 179. 181. of the edition of Sauvage, and indeed, in refpe6l of 
 the war-tax, very circumftantially ; but he merely touches upon the complaint 
 concerning the debarcmcnt of the coin. The variations of this chapter in the 
 manufcript are inconfiderable, till we come to the fum total, p. 180. 1. 13. 
 where, inftead of ' cinquante mille livres,' is to be read ' cinquante cens mille 
 livres ;' which corre6lion, however, Sauvage had already given in a note. 
 It was therefore not ncceilary to caufe this chapter to be printed here, as 
 Guthrie is in fo many hands, and merits to be read, by reafon of the incredible 
 diflimilarity of the relult of that firft aflembling of the ftates of France with 
 the. fuccefs of the laft.
 
 160 
 
 2. 
 
 FABLE OF A BEAUTIFUL BIRD. 
 
 * There was once in the world a bird without feathers. As foon as 
 the other birds heard this, they came to fee him; and, as they found that he 
 was beautiful and agreeable, they confulted amongft t'lemlelves what was 
 to be done in this cafe ; fince, being (till without feathers, he could not 
 fly, and without flying he could not live. They refolved alfo, as he was 
 fo furprifingly beautiful, to fupport him with food and clothing : all the 
 birds gave him of their feathers, and the good-natured ones larger 
 quantities. As this bird was now quite fledged, he began to fly, which 
 afforded all birds who had given him of their feathers great pleafure. 
 But as the bird now faw that he was quite fledged, and all birds honoured 
 him, he took it into his head to be proud on the occafion, and efteemed 
 thofe no more from whom, however, it proceeded: he even pecked at 
 them, beat them, and totally oppofed them. Thereupon, the birds who 
 had feathered him, and raifed him up, aflembled together, and inquired 
 one of another what was beft to be done ; for that fince they had given 
 him fo much of theirs, and made him fo great and haughty, he valued 
 them no longer. The peacock anfwered, ' He is too much adorned 
 with my feathers: I will take them from him again.' ' By God,' faid 
 the falcon, ' I will do the fame with mine.' And fo faid all the birds, 
 one after the other, that they would take from him the feathers which 
 they had given him, — confequently would pluck from him his covering 
 of feathers. When he found this, he humbled himlelf mightily, and, 
 confulting his reafon, found that the honour he enjoyed, and his 
 beautiful plumage, did not originate from himfelf; for he had come 
 into the world naked and without feathers, fo alfo might they who had 
 given him them take them away, if they chofe it. He cried to them for 
 mercy, and promifed to amend himfelf, and to treat them more refpedtfuUy 
 in future. When the bettcr-natured birds, who Jiad feathered him,
 
 1(51 
 
 began again to compafTionatc him, and becaufe they faw that he humbled 
 himfelf, gave him back, the feathers which they had taken from liim, 
 faying, ' We would very wilHngly fee thee fly amongft us as long as 
 thou fhalt behave thyleif huribly, for that is neccffary ; but know, that 
 if thou again become proud, we will ftrip thee, and place thee in the 
 condition in which we found thee.' 
 
 This fable lands in PVoiflart, vol. iii. ch. xxiv. p. 8 k of the edition of 
 
 Sauvage. With the tranflation, the manufcript, vol. in. fol. 90. b. 91. a. 
 
 has been comp?red by me. It derives its origin from a Francifcan, who is 
 
 called, vol. i. ch.ccxi. p. 241. vol. in. ch. xxiv. p. 84-. and in the manufcript, 
 
 Frere Jehan de la Rochetai'lade, or, according to Bayle, t. iv. p. 7 t. Jean 
 
 de la Roquetaillade, but better known under the Latin name Joannes de 
 
 Bi/pe-fc/fa, in Fabricius Bibl. med. et inf. Latin, vol. iv. p. 566. 368. It 
 
 was at firfl: publiflied as a prophecy of the ruin of the popiili hierarchy, 
 
 together with the whole remaining account of its author, from Froiflart, 
 
 by John Wolf, T. i. Ledt. memorab. p. 62 1. fq. Lauingas IGOO, f, 
 
 afterwards briefly by Phil. Mornaeus m the JNIyiterio Iniquitatis, Salmurii, 
 
 1611. f. p. 475. fq. Sleidanus, in the Epitome, Paris, 1562. 16. fol. 85. a. 
 
 has no more than ' Hoc malum, ct alia multa, quibus aliquando premeretur 
 
 ecclefiafticus ordo, Francifcanus quidam monachus, innocentii temporibus, 
 
 priedixerat, conie6lus Auenione in vincula, hoc nomine, et ni fcripturs 
 
 auftoritate fua firmaflet, capitis pcenam luiturus,' I poffels an old German 
 
 tranflation of this fable, the fupcrfcription of which is, ' Of ihe handjhme 
 
 bird; that is, a prophetic apologue concerning the fupercilioufnels and 
 
 debauchery of the clergy, &c. and what will happen to them on that 
 
 account, pointed out by friar Joannem de Rupefcifla, in the year of 
 
 Christ IfiSO, whom the pope. Innocent VI. held imprifoned at Avignon, 
 
 and written in the French language in the fecond book of Froiflart, 
 
 afterwards tranflated into the Latin language, but now into the German, 
 
 by V. O. P. together with a precedi: g fummaiy elucidation of this 
 
 apoU gue, D. S. Schardij, ccnfirnied by his papal holinefs, anno 1522, &c. 
 
 1 Pet. v. ' God withflandcth the proud, but he giveth grace to the humble.* 
 
 Printed at Arnholdlb.tt, for tl;e Saivi, M.DC.XI,' in quarto, two Ihcers 
 
 y
 
 162 
 
 and a half. From which fuperfcription, one may judge of the reft. Bayle 
 treats of this prophet on two pages, referring to Froiflfart, and therewith 
 occupies himfelf to fhew that he was no true prophet : he alfo cites 
 IVlornasus, But it muft immediately occur to whoever reads this fable, 
 that it is a witty imitation, application and paraphrafe of the well-known 
 fable of the crow, which, with divers alterations, already ftands in 
 Greek amongft the yEfop. Fab. 188. Lipf. 1741. 8. m. particularly in 
 Gabrias' vEfop's Fables, p. 305. Lugd. 1594. 1'2. and is contained in 
 the fi6litious Letters of Themiftocles, Lemgov. 1778. Prasf. Chriltopher 
 Schoettgen, p. 31. 33. Mention of this fable is made in Achilles Tatius, 
 L. II. Erotic, p. 149. L. B. 1640. 12. in Phoedrus, i. 3. and Horace, 
 L. I. Ep. III. 18. 20. to which laft Sauvage has already referred in a note 
 on the margin : it is therefore wonderful that nothing concerning this fable 
 occurs in Bayle, which muft have been known to him. 
 
 3. 
 
 It has been mentioned, that a very beautiful manulcnpt ot Valerius 
 Maximus was refcued by the Founder of this Library from that of 
 Anthony of Burgundy. It thence came hither fure enough, but not 
 dire6fly to the Rehdigerian ftore : it was firft prefented to it, the 25th 
 May 1705, by Veit Ferdinand von Mudrach. 
 
 4. 
 
 In the account of Froiflart's life in Niceron's Mem. T. xlii. p. 210. 
 230, which was, however, firft publithed after Niceron's deceafe, from his 
 pofthumous tra6ts, the catalogue of Froiflart's works is detective, fo that 
 the delcription in Chaufepie is to be preferred to it.
 
 163 
 
 5. 
 
 Both thc-i)rothers, D. John Erneft Stief, and Charles Benjamin Stief, 
 pro-re<5lor, for the time being, of the Elifabethian Gymnafium, died 1793 ; 
 the former, the 4th January, — the latter, on the 9th ; after the firft eight 
 fheets of thefe Notices had been printed. 
 
 6. 
 
 The following editions of Sleidanus' Epitome are ftill extant in our 
 Mary Magdalene Library, befides thofe that have been noticed. 
 
 1. Froflardi Parifiis, ex officina Jacobi Dupuys, 1552, in fexdecimo, 
 
 eleven leaves, title and preface ; 131 leaves, text ; fix leaves, index. This 
 edition is the fame with that before defcribed, and merely furnilhed with 
 a new title-leaf, in the vignette of which Christ is reprefented with the 
 Samaritan woman at the well, as the Wechelian printer's mark (lands upon 
 the one defcribed. 
 
 2. Froiflardi Witebergae, anno M.D.LXXVI. In o6lavo, nine 
 
 leaves, title and preface ; 115 leaves, text ; feven leaves, index. 
 
 In Pauli Bolduani Biblioth. hiftorica, Lipf. 1620, quarto, p. 188. flands^ 
 
 Froflardus Paris. Gall, et Latine per Joannem Sambacuniy 1536 ; alfo 
 
 Francof. 1619, in fexdecimo. 
 
 7. 
 
 The excerpted firft lines of each volume, and alfo the laft, fbould 
 univerfally take up, as well in the print as in the manufcript, an exadt
 
 I6i 
 
 reflangular fpace, as has been rightly obferved at the bottom of pige 41. 
 of the German original. 
 
 8. 
 
 It appears in general, from a confideration of the events of the preceding 
 year 1793, to be highly neceflary, that inftead of the indefcribable multitude 
 of romances and romancing hiftories, which ferve for vehicles, that every 
 paradox may be wilfully fpread abroad and brought into circulation, many 
 important old chronicles and biographical memoirs were made more known 
 to the public in good tranflations, but not in capricious abridgments, as 
 Sleidanus has done with FroifTart; that the continual reproaches againft the 
 middle age, as a rude, fuperftitious and blind one, in comparifon with our 
 days, may be done away, — and to ibow that the human race by no means 
 continues to approximate to a univerial improvement. Every reflecting 
 patriot and Chriftian cannot therefore enough thank the wife government 
 of God, that it has permitted him to live to ice a Revolution which has never 
 had its equal, and of which the outfet, end, and confequences to Him alone 
 are kndwn, for the moft ferious information and warning againft epidemical, 
 irrational, and unphilofophical giddinefs. 
 
 AT 
 
 THE HAFOD PRESS,) 
 V JA. HEt.DERSON. )
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ABBVILLE, the town of, taken by the French forces under fir Hugh de Chatillon, 
 
 I. 796. 
 Aberdeen, the bifliop of, taken prifoner by the Enghfh at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, 
 
 I. 346. 
 jichcry fur Jine, the town of, in Picardy, taken by the Englifti under fir Euftace d'Am- 
 
 breticourt, I. 540. 
 Achievement at arms, between the lord de la Rochfoucault and fir William de Montferrant, at 
 
 Bourdeaux, III. 354. 
 Acqulgny, the caftle of, taken by the lord de la Riviere, I. 640. 
 Acqultalne, the country of, conquered from the Engli(h by the earl of Lifle, I. 149. — Given 
 
 to the duke of Lancafter by Richard 11. and his council, IV. 404. 
 Acquhaine, the towns of, fend atnbaffadors to England, to remonllrate againft the gift made 
 of the duchy to the duke of Lancafter, IV. 416. — Succeeded in the obje6t of their re- 
 monftrance, ib. 435. 
 Additions to tlie printed copies of Froiffart's Chronicles, from MSS. in the Hafod Library, 
 
 I. 383. II. 1^9 note, 400. 478 note, 480 note, 486. IV. 2o8. 290. 594. 
 Africa, the town of, befieged by the duke of Bourbon, IV. 206. — The fiege aban- 
 doned, 337. 
 Agace, Gobin, conducts the Englifti army under king Edward III. to a ford on the Lomme, 
 
 at Blanchetaque, previous to the battle of Crecy, I. 317. 
 Agen, the town of, taken by the French army under the duke of Anjou, II. 48. 
 Aide, the nature of the tax fo called, explained, I. 753 note. 
 
 Aiguillon, the caftle of, in Gafcony, furrenders to the earl of Derby, I. 266. — Befieged by 
 
 z the
 
 i66 INDEX. 
 
 the duke of Normandy, 293. — The fiege abandoned by order of the king of France, 
 333. — ^Taken by the French, under the duke of Anjou, II. 49. 
 
 jlire, the town of, in Artois, befieged by the Flemings in the intereft of the king of Eng- 
 land, J. 359. 
 
 Albret, fir Perducas d', takes offence at the conduct of the prince of Wales, I. 705. — 
 Marries the lady Ifabella of Bourbon, 756. — Complains to the king of France of a tax 
 the prince of Wales was about to impofe upon the lands of himfelf and other lords of 
 Gafcony, 757. — Returns to the intereft of the prince of Wales, 818. — Receives the in- 
 veftiture of the lands of Chaumont, II. 58r. — His death, 581. 
 
 Aibret, the lord Charles d', obtains permifFion from Charles VI. to quarter the fleurs de lis 
 of France alternately with his own arms, IV. 135. 
 
 Alen^on, the earl of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 jilctifon, earl Peter d', returns to France from England, where he had been as one of the 
 hoftages for king John, I. 784. 
 
 Alexandria, the town of, in Lombardy, befieged by the count d'Armagnac, IV. 257. — The 
 fiege raifed, 262. 
 
 Aljuharota, the battle of, between the armies of Spain and Portugal, III. 178. 260. 
 
 Alois, the caftle of, in Auvergne, taken by Aimerigot Marcel, II. 295. 
 
 Amand, St. the town of, taken by the earl of Hainault, I. 160. 
 
 Ambrcticourt, fir Eullace d', hofpitably receives queen Ifabella of England, after flie had fled 
 from Paris, I. 13. — Taken prifoner at the battle of Poitiers, 429. — Refcued by his own 
 men, 431. — Defeated and taken prifoner at the battle of Nogent fur Seine, 516. — Obtains 
 his freedom and takes feveral towns in Champagne, 520. — Takes the town of Achery fur 
 Aine, in Picardy, 540. — Commits great devaftations in Picardy, 551. — Made prifoner and 
 ranfomed in Limoufin, II. 75 — Dies at Carentan, in Normandy, 76. 
 
 Ambrcticourt , fir John d', on his return from Galicia, goes to Paris, to accomplifh a deed of 
 arms. III. 521. 
 
 Amiirat, the Turkifli commander, defeated by the Hungarians, III. 222. — Invades Hungarv 
 a fecond time, X. 312. 
 
 Anchin, Peter d', takes the town of Ortingas, 111. 87. — Sells it for 8000 francs, 89. 
 
 Andreghen, the caftle of, belonging to the earl of Flanders, burnt and pillaged by the Whife- 
 hoods, under John Lyon, II. 324. 
 
 — — — , lord Arnold d', made prifoner at the battle of Poitiers, I. 429. — Advifes Henry, 
 king of Caftille, not to hazard a battle with the prince of Wales, 725.— Captured at the 
 battle of Navarete, 737. 
 
 St. Andrews, the bifliop of, taken prifoner at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, I. 346. 
 
 Anghein, the lord d', takes the town of Grammont, in Flanders, for the earl, II. 494. — 
 Slain before Ghent, 496. 
 
 yingle,
 
 INDEX. i6y 
 
 Angle, fir Guifcard d', appointed marfhal of Guienne, I. 597. — Travels through France to 
 Acquitaine in difguife, 791. — Created a knight of the garter, II. 98. — Captured by the 
 Spaniards before La Rochelle, 104. — Ranfomed, 163. — Appointed tutor to Richard the 
 Second, 180. — Dies in London, II. 362. 
 
 Angoulcmc, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 277. — By the duke of Normandy, 
 292. — Surrenders a fecond time to the French, II. 122. 
 
 Anjmi, the duke of, fent to the aflirtance of the Bretons in the intereft of the lord Charles 
 of Blois, I. 661. — Summons his vaffals to make war on the prince of Wales in Acquitaine, 
 795. — He.ids an army againft Guienne, II. 44. — Breaks up his expedition, II. 59. — Leads 
 an army into Upper Gafcony, 159. — Takes the town of Lourde, i6j et feq. — Makes a 
 truce with the duke of Lancafter, 169. — Takes feveral places in Upper Gafcony, 170. — 
 Undertakes an expedition againft the Englifli in the Bourdelois, r93. — Takes the town of 
 Bergerac, 196. — Takes feveral other places in Gafcony^ 2C2 et feq. — Returns to Touloufe, 
 21 1. — CoUefls another army againft the Englifli in Gafcony, 244. — Makes war on Brit- 
 tanny, 292. — Receives the territories of the queen of Naples as a gift from pope Clement, 
 305. — Seizes the jewels of his brother king Charles the Fifth, 390. — Seizes the irovern- 
 ment of France as regent during the minority of Charles the Sixth, 391. — Makes prepa- 
 rations to march for Naples, 504. — Sets out for Italy, 516. — Enters Naples, 516. — Dies 
 at a caftle near Naples, 730. — Takes Malvoiftn, III. 100*. — Befleges Lourde, but being 
 unable to take the caftle, he burns the town and retreats, 112. 
 
 Jtijou, madame d', queen of Naples, advifed on the death of her hufband, the duke of Anjou, 
 to folicit the pope for poffefllon of Provence, III. i. — Urges her claims to this country, 3. — 
 Makes her public entry into Paris in company with her fon Lewis of Anjou, king of Sicily, 
 624. — Inftitutes a law-fuit in the courts of Paris againft fir Peter Craon, IV. 457. — lOb- 
 tains judgment againft him, 469. 
 
 Anjou, Lewis of, fon of the duke of Anjou, makes his public entry into Paris as king of 
 Sicily, &c. III. 624. — Sets out from Avignon to Arragon, IV. 88. — Marries the daughter 
 of the king of Arragon, and embarks with his young bride for Sicily, 89. 
 
 • It may not be improper to obferve here, once for all, upon a circumftance which vfill doubtlefs excite 
 the furprife of the reader, that in this inftance, as well as feveral others in different parts of the Index, events 
 are inferted fubfequently to the account of the death of the agent. This has arifen unavoidably from 
 the manner in which FroilTart compofed his hiftory, and fiom new and additional information commu- 
 nicated to him many years after he had completed the former part of his work, and had mentioned the 
 death of the perfon to whom fuch information related. But it was confidered that it would have been 
 a vain and fruitlefs attempt to reftify this imperfection ; it has, therefore, been deemed advifable to 
 leave things as they were found, and to infert the events felected for the Index in the order and rotation 
 in which they appear noticed by the Author himfelf. R. 
 
 z a Anne,
 
 l68 INDEX. 
 
 ^nne, of Bohemia, fets out for England, II. 510. — Married to Richard the Second, 512. — 
 Her death, IV. 405. 
 
 jtnnequin, fir Baldwin d', captured by fir Bartholomew Burghcrft, I. 539. 
 
 Apologue, delivered to the cardinals refpecting the papacy, by friar John de la Rochetail- 
 lade, III. 227. 
 
 Appearances, wonderful, in the heavens, feen by the army of Philip von Artaveld on the eve 
 of the battle of Rofebecque, II. 630. 
 
 Ardemhoiirg, the town of, taken by the men of Ghent, II. 660. — Narrowly efcapes being 
 taken a fecond time by them. III. 12. 
 
 Ardres, the town of,, in Picardy, attacked ineffectually by the French forces, I. 812. — Sur- 
 renders to the duke of Burgundy, II. 183. 
 
 Ardvlck, the caftle of, in Picardy, taken by the duke of Burgundy, II. 184. 
 
 Armagnac, the lord of, complains to the king of France of a tax the prince of Wales was 
 about to impofe upon the lands of himfelf and other lords of Gafcony, I. 757* 
 
 Armagnac, the count d', obtains the remiflion of fixty thoufand francs of his ranfom of the 
 count deFoix, at the interceffion of the princefs of Wales, III. 83, — Endeavours to prevail 
 on the free companies to fell their forts, 530. — Is thwarted by the count de Foix, 533. — 
 Leads an army into Lombardy againft the duke of Milan, IV^. 250. — Applies to fir John 
 Ilawkwood for his affiftance, 255. — Befieges Alexandria, 258. — His death, 264.. 
 
 Armagnac, fir Bernard d', does homage to the king of France, IV. 314. 
 
 Arnaut, fir Peter, appointed governor of Lourde, in Gafcony, 111. 84. — Murdered by the 
 count de Foix, 1 15. 
 
 Arragon, the king of, promifes to affifl: king Henry of Caftille againft don PeJro, and the 
 prince of Wales, I. 692. — His death, III. 346. 
 
 Arras, a conference held there with the view of bringing about a peace between the kings of 
 France and England, I. 171. 
 
 — — , diffenfions and murders of, I. 407. 
 
 Artaveld, Jacob von, a citizen of Ghent, governs all Flanders, I. 78.— Sends ambafladors 
 to Edward the Third, to invite him over, 85. — Joins the earl of Hainault with a large army 
 before Thin I'Eveque, 138. — Attempts to difinherit the earl of Flanders, and to give the 
 country to the king of England, 279. — Murdered at Ghent, 283. 
 
 Artaveld, Philip von, fon of the above, appointed governor of Ghent, II. 450. — Leads the 
 men of Ghent to attack the earl of Flanders at Bruges, 552. — Defeats the earl, and takes 
 Bruges, 558. — Returns to Ghent in great ftate, 568. — Befieges Oudenarde, 569. — 
 Writes to the king of France to folicit his interference lo make peace between the country 
 of Flanders and the earl, 580. — His letters treated with contempt, 580. — Imprifons a 
 meffenger from the king of France, 589. — His anfwer to the letters he had brought him, 
 
 590-
 
 INDEX. 169 
 
 590. — Takes meafures to guard the pafles of the country againft the king of France, 
 618. — After the defeat of Peter du Bois. collects a force to oppofe the king of France in 
 perfon, 6ig. — Defeated and flain at the battle of Rofebecque, 641. 
 
 j^rtois, lord Charles d', captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 437. 
 
 Artoh, lord John d', captured at the battle of Poitiers, 1. 437. 
 
 Arioh, lord Philip d', marries the lady Mary of Berry, and is appointed conftable of France, 
 IV. 381. — Taken prifoner at the battle of Nicopoli in Turkey, 517. — Dies at Hautloge, 
 in the fame country, 565. 
 
 Arto'is, the lord Robert d', befriends Ifabella, queen of Edward the Second, after (lie had 
 been commanded to quit France, I. 12. — Is himfelf banifhed by king Philip, 62. — Takes 
 refuge in England, and is created earl of Richmond, 65. — Sent into Brittany to aid the 
 countefs of Montford againft the lord Charles of Blois, 227. — Engages the lord Lewis of 
 Spain at fea, 229. — Lands in Brittany, 228. — Takes the town of Vannes, 231. — Is 
 befieged in it, 232, — Killed, 235. 
 
 Arundel, the earl of, befieged with king Edward the Second in Briftol by the queen's forces, 
 L 18. — Condemned to death and beheaded, 20. 
 
 Arundel, Richard earl of, defeats the Flemilh fleet under fir John le Bucq, III. 365. — Ap- 
 pointed to the command of a naval expedition, 6oD. — Lands near la Rochelle, 627. — 
 Defeats the Rochellers in a ikirmifli, 631. — Lands in Normandy, and over-runs the 
 country, IV. 61.: — Returns to Southampton, 62. — Joins the duke of Gloucefter in his 
 attempts to excite difturbances in England, 546. — Committed to the Tower, 583. — 
 Beheaded, 586. 
 
 Arundel, fir John, heads an armament againfl France, and lands at Cherbourg, II. 245. — 
 Sent with a force to the afliftance of the duke of Brittany, 343.— Periflies at fea, 343. 
 
 Afal, Guy d', fteward, of Touloufe, endeavours to prevent the free companies from en- 
 tering France, on their return from Spain, I. 696. — Is defeated by them before Mont- 
 aubon, and made prifoner, 701. 
 
 AJJembly, of the lords of England and France, held at Amiens, to treat of a peace between 
 the two countries, IV. 305. — Breaks up without having accomplifhed the obje£t of its 
 meeting, 311. 
 
 held at Rheims by the king of France and the emperor of Germany, to confult on 
 
 meafures to put an end to the fchifm in the church, IV. 590. 
 
 Affucton, fir John, a Scots knight, performs a gallant deed of arms at Noyon, II. 56.. 
 
 Athenis, tlie town of, taken from the Englidi by the duke of Normandy, I. ago. 
 
 Athens, the duke of, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Atremen, Francis, a citizen of Ghent, furprifes the town of Oudernarde, If. 698. — Defeats 
 a party of the French at Ardembourg, 743. — Makes an unfuccefsful attempt to take 
 Ardembourg, [11. 12. — Murdered at Ghent, 290. 
 
 Attigny,
 
 170 INDEX. 
 
 Atitgny, the town of, in Champagne, taken by fir Euftace d'Ambretlcourt, I. 520. 
 
 Aubenton, the town of, taken by tlie earl of Hainault, I. 120. 
 
 Aiiberoche, the town of, in Perigord, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 261. — Retaken by the 
 
 duke of Anjou, II. 306. 
 Aubriot, Hugh, liberated by the infurgents at Paris, II. 502. 
 Audley, lord James, wounded at the battle of Poitiers, I. 434. — Handfomely rewarded by 
 
 the prince of Wales for his condudV, 441. — His generofity to his fquires, 443. — His 
 
 death, 834. 
 Audley, fir Peter, makes an ineffectual attempt to take the town of Chalons, I. 505. 
 Avcjbury, Robert of, his hiftory of the progrefs of Edward the Tliird in Normandy, quoted, 
 
 II. 308, note. 
 Aubiay, the town of, in Poitou, taken by the carl of Derby, I. 337. 
 Auray, the caftle of, in Brittany, taken by the lord Charles of Blois, I. 214. — Taken by 
 
 the lord John de Montford, 6bT^. — Surrenders to the French forces in the intereft of 
 
 Charles of Blois, II. 189. 
 Auray, the battle of, between the lord John de Montford and the lord Charles of Blois, 
 
 I. 654. 
 
 Aujlarde, Wautaire, commands a troop of the free companies at Roullebois, I. 614. 
 
 Autcrme, Roger d', bailiff of Ghent, murdered by the Whitehoods, II. 319. 
 
 Auterme, Oliver d', revenges himfelf on the men of Ghent for the murder of his brother, 
 
 II. 350. — Banifhed from Flanders, 353. 
 
 Auvergne, the city of, taken by the free companies under fir Seguin de Batefol, I. 590. 
 
 Auxene, the earl of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 Auxerre, the earl of, captured at the battle of Auray, I. 657. — Imprifoned on account of his 
 
 alliance with don Henry of Caftille, 745. 
 Aymery, fir John, captured by the French, III. 143. — Slain at Sancerre, 144. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bacon, a robber in Languedoc, takes the caftle of Cobourne, in Limofin, and does other 
 mifchief, I. 372. 
 
 Ballleul, fir William de, defeated in fkirmifli at Pont a Treffm, [. 157. 
 
 Bajazet, the fultan, raifes a large force to oppofe the king of Hungary and John of Bur- 
 gundy, who had invaded Turkey, IV. 486. — Marches for Nicopoli, 515. — Defeats the 
 combined Chriftian armies with great flaughter, 518. — Puts his prifoners, with very 
 few exceptions, to death, 520. — Diftsands his army, 530. — A fingular inflance of his 
 juftice, 567. 
 
 Ball, John, a refraftory prieft, excites the people of Kent to rebellion, II. 460. — Enters 
 London at their head, 468. — Taken and beheaded, 480. 
 
 Balon,
 
 INDEX. 171 
 
 Balon, the caftle of, in Auvergne, taken by Aimerigot Marcel, II. 296. 
 
 Bans, fir Agos de, furrenders the caftle of La Reole, I. 274. 
 
 Barfieur, the town of, in Normandy, taken by Edwaid the Third, I. 300. 
 
 Barres, fir Barrois de, (with other French knights) goes to the affiftance of the king of 
 
 Callille, III. 269. — Enters Corunna to defend it againft the duke of Lancafter, 274. — 
 
 Acquires great wealth by deftroying the country before the Enghfli army, 284. 
 Basi/e, St. the caftle of, in Gafcony, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 266. — Retaken by the 
 
 duke of Anjou, II. 206. 
 Batefol, fir Seguin de, cliofen commander of a band of freebooters in Gafcony, I. 579.— 
 
 Takes the city of Auvergne, I. 590. 
 Battle, noted, between thirty Bretons and thirty Englifh, I. 374, note, 
 Bayciix, the city of, taken by the French under the lord de Coucy, II. 241. 
 Bayonne, the town of, befieged by the king of Caftille, II. 244. — Taken by the duke of 
 
 Lancafter, III. 319. 
 Bcarn, Peter de, his ftrange dreams, III. 134. 
 Bearno'is, Perrot le, captain of fome free companies, takes the town of Montferrant, in 
 
 Auvergne, by ftratagem, III. 580. — Abandons it, and retires to his forts, 584. — Takes the 
 
 field by order of the earl of Arundel, 627. — Overruns the country of Berry, 635. 
 Beaufort, the cardinal de, elected pope, under the name of Gregory the Eleventh, II. 74. 
 Beaulieu, William de, captured by the Englifli garrifon of Cherbourg, II. 293. 
 Beaumanolr, the lord of, endeavours to make peace between the lord John de Montford and 
 
 the lord Cliarles of Blois, I. 651. 
 Beaumont, fir Henry, takes Edward the Second prifoner, while endeavouring to efcape from 
 
 Briftol, I. 20. 
 Beaumont en Laillois, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 257. 
 Eeauvais, the country of, invaded by the Englifh under Edward the Third, I. 312. 
 Bechcrel, the town of, in Brittany, befieged by the French under the lord de Cliflbn, 
 
 II. 139. — Surrenders on terms, 162. 
 Bel, John Ic, his chronicles adopted by Froiflart, as the foundation of his own, I, 3. 
 Belleforit, M. de, an account of his abridgment of FroiCfart's Chronicles, Memoirs, p. 63. 
 Belleperche, the town of, taken by the free companies in the intereft of the prince of Wales, 
 
 I. 829. — Retaken by the duke of Bourbon, II. 43. 
 Benedlfi, pope, eledled at Avignon, IV. 399. — Forced to refign his dignity by the king of 
 
 France and the emperor of Germany, 616. — Depofed, 69T. 
 Benon, the town of, taken by the Englifli under the earl of Derby, I. 337. — Retaken by fir 
 
 Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 127. 
 Bergerac, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. ^51.— Retaken by the duke of An- 
 jou, II. aoo. 
 
 Berkeley,
 
 1/2 I N D E X. 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas, lord of, captured at tlie battle of Poitiers, I. 436. 
 
 Bcrly, the town of, taken by the forces of the king of Navarre, I. 491. 
 
 Berners, lord, his tranflation of Froiffart's Chronicles, Mem. 62. 
 
 Berry, John duke of, returns to France from England, where he had been a hoftage for king 
 John, I. 783. — Collects his vaflals to make war on the prince of Wales in Aquitaine, 
 ^95. — Invades Limoufin, IT. 49. — Takes the town of Limoges, 60. — Takes the town of 
 St. Severe, in Saintonge, 116. — Appointed governor of Languedoc, 399. — Betrothes 
 his daughter to the fon of the count dc Blois, 739. — Beiieges the caftle of Ventadour, 
 III. 563. — Endeavours to win over the duke of Brittany to the French intereft, 589. 
 — Propofes to marry the daughter of the duke of Lancafler, 605. — Having failed, he fends 
 to the count de Foix, to demand his ward, the daughter of the count de Boulogne, in 
 marriage, IV. 51. — Is married to her, 69. — Accompanies the king of France in his vifit 
 to the pope at Avignon, 94. — Claims the liberation of his agent Bethifac, who was under 
 profccution for mal-admiiiiftration, 114. 
 
 Berry, John of, fon of the duke of Berry, marries the lady Mary of France, filler of Charles 
 the Sixth, 111. 586. 
 
 Berry, the duchefs of, petitions her hufband in behalf of the lord de la Riviere, IV. 361. — 
 Supports the lord de la Riviere, in oppofition to the duchefs of Burgundy, 378. 
 
 Berfat, the town of, taken by the Englilh, II. 365. 
 
 Berwick, the cadle of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 66. — Taken by the Scots, II. 213. — 
 Retaken by the earl of Northumberland, 220. 
 
 Befcnghcn, the fort of, in Gafconv, taken by the Englifh under fir Thomas Trivet, II. 268. 
 
 Bejfere, La, the caftle of, taken by the French under fir Walter de Pafiac, III. 201. 
 
 Bete, fir Symon, a citizen of Ghent, put to death tor having endeavoured to make peace 
 between that town and the earl of Flanders, II. 501. 
 
 Bethifac, John, the confidential agent of the duke of Berry in Touloufe, tried at Beziers for 
 mal-adminiftration, IV. ill. — Having confeffed himfelf guilty of herefy, &c. he is burnt 
 to death, ir5. 118. 
 
 Bethunc, fir Robert de, takes the fort of La Roche Vandais, IV. 199. 
 
 Blanchetaque, the battle of, between the king of England and fir Godemar du Fay, I. 317, 
 
 Blancquefort, Henry de, brother of the emperor of Germany, forcibly marries Margaret of 
 Hungary, who had been betrothed to Louis de Valois, III. 31. 
 
 Blaycs, the town of, befieged by the earl of Derby, I. 377. 
 
 Blo'is, the earl of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 Bloii, lord Charles of, claims the duchy of Brittany, I. 181. — Declared the lawful duke of 
 Brittany by the parliament of Paris, 183. — Enters Brittany with a large force, aflilled 
 by the king of France, 184. — Conquers feveral towr.s in the duchy, 185, et feq. — Takes 
 his adverfary, the earl of Montford, prifoncr, 188. — Takes the town of Rennes, 302. — 
 
 Befieges
 
 J N D E X. 173 
 
 Befiegesthe countcfs of Montford in Hcnnebon, 204. — Takes the caftlc of Aurai, 214. — 
 Takes the town of Vannes by rtorm, ib. — Takes the town of Carhaix, 219. — Obtahij 
 poffeirion of the town of Jugon l)y treachery, 224. — Enters into a truce witli the countefs 
 of Montford, 225. — ^eficges La Roche d'Errien, 355. — Taken prifoner by the forces of 
 the countefs, 356. — Sent to England, 357. — Confined in the tower, 371. — Returns to 
 France, 463. — Raifes an army to oppofe lord John de Montford, 644. — Killed at the 
 battle of Auray, 658. — Canonized by Urban the Fifth, 660. — But fee note, lb. 
 
 Blois, Guy, count de, returns from England, where he had been hofbge for king John, 
 I. 784. — Joins the king of France againfl: England, II. 45. — Sells the reverfion of 
 the county of Blois to the duke of Touraine, IV. 300. — Dies at Avennes, in Hain- 
 ault, 581. 
 
 Bloh, John of, marries the widow of William, count of Juliers, III. 541. — His death, 542. 
 
 Btois, lord Lewis of, marries the lady Mary of Berry, III. 586. — Dies in Hainault, IV. 270. 
 
 Blois, the county of, the reverfion of it fold to the duke of Touraine, IV. 3C0. 
 
 Blondcau, fir John, furrenders the caftle of La Roche fur Yon to the duke of Cambridge, 
 I. 833. — Put to death in confequence, 834. 
 
 Bodenay, fir Theobald de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Bohemia, Charles of Luxembourg, king of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 325. 
 
 Bo'ts, Peter du, a citizen of Ghent, chofen one of the commanders of the Whitehoods in 
 that city, II. ^130. — Narrowly efcapes being put to death, 444. — Bcfieges Courtray, 
 445. — Obtains the appointment of Philip von Artaveld to be governor of Ghent, 453. — 
 Defends the pafs of Communes againfl: the army of the king of France, 611. — Defeated, 
 with great flaughter, 616. — Prevents the town of Bruges from furrendering to the king of 
 France, 626. — Retreats to Ghent after the defeat of Philip von Aitaveld, 643. — En- 
 courages the men of Ghent to withftand the army of the king of France, 648. — After a 
 peace being concluded between the duke of Burgundy, as heir of Flanders, and the men 
 of Ghent, he retires to England, III. 70. 
 
 Bois, fir Henry du, killed at the battle of Calais, I. 379. 
 
 Boniface IX. eledled pope by the cardinals of Rome, IV. 127. — Sends a learned friar to the 
 king of France to endeavour to gain him over to his interefl, 377. 
 
 Bonneval, the caftle of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 258. 
 
 Bordes, fir William de, captured by the garrifon of Cherbourg, II. 294. 
 
 Botelcr, Gr John, of Warrington, captured at Roche Perion, I. 215. — Narrowly efcapes 
 being put to death, 220- 
 
 Boucicault, the lord of, taken prifoner at Romorantin by the prince of Wales, I. 414. — 
 Appointed to the command of an expedition agaitift the king of Navarre, 614. — ^Takes 
 the town of Mante by ftratagem, 616, — Takes the town of Meulan, 616. 
 
 2 A Boucicaut,
 
 174 INDEX. 
 
 Boueicaut, fir, the younger, with two other French knights, holds a tournament near Calais 
 againft all comers, IV. lOO. 
 
 Boueicaut, the lord, taken prifoner by the Turks at the battle of Nicopoli, IV. 520. — Ob- 
 tains his ranfom, 568. — Arrives at Venice, 573.— Appointed marflial of France, 579,— 
 Obliges pope Benedift to fubmit to the emperor of Germany and the king of France, 
 f)Xq. — Sent to Hungary againfl the Turks, 630. 
 
 Botile, John, a citizen of Ghent, appointed one of the captains of the Whitehoods in that 
 city, II. 330. — Put to death by the men of Ghent, 433. 
 
 Bourbon, fir James de, captured by the Englifli, at the battle of Poitiers, I. 437. — Sent by 
 the king of France to oppofe the free companies, 581. — Completely defeated by them at 
 the battle of Brignais, 584. — His death, 585. 
 
 Bourbon^ duke Peter de, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Bourbon, duke Louis de, takes the caftle of Belleperchc, II. 43. — Heads an army into 
 Poitou and Limoufin, III. 4. — Takes Monilieu in Saintonge, 6. — Befieges Taillebourg, 7. 
 — Takes Verteuil and returns to Paris, 33. — Appointed to the command of an army 
 to aflift the king of Caftile againft the duke of Lancafter, 364. — Arrives at Burgos, 
 542. — Returns to France, 524. — Magnificently entertained by the count de Foix, 525. — 
 Appointed commander in chief of an expedition againft Barbary, 169.— Embarks at 
 Genoa, 170. — Lands with his army before the town of Africa, which he befieges, 211. — 
 His army fuffers from the heat and infalubrity of the climate, 219. — Abandons the fiege 
 and returns to France, 238.— Makes an ineffectual attempt to gain over the towns of 
 Aquitaine during the imprifonment of king Richard the Second in the Tower, 676. 
 
 Bourchier, fir John, appointed governor of Ghent, II. 730. —Retires to England, III. 71, 
 
 Bourdeaux, the town of, befieged by the French under the earl of Lifle, I. 149. 
 
 , the archbifliop of, imprifoned at Barcelona, III. 347. — Liberated, 351. 
 
 Bourdeilles, the town of, taken by the Englifli under tlie duke of Cambridge, I. 826. 
 
 Bsurnezd, fir Peter, lord de, fent on an embafly from the king of France to the king of 
 Scotland, II. 285. — Arrefted at Sluys byorder of the earl of Flanders, 285, — Returns to 
 
 Paris, 287. 
 
 Bouteville, the town of, taken by the French, II. 281. 
 
 Brabant, the duke of, joins the Englifti forces before Cambray, I. 95. — Purchafes three 
 caftles belonging to the duke of Gueldres, III. 544. — Appointed chief of the Langue- 
 fride, 545. — Invades the country of Juliets, 547. — Defeated and taken prifoner by the 
 dukes of Juliets and Gueldres, 548. — Obtains his liberty, 551. — His death, 553. 
 
 Brabant, the duchefs of, forms a marriage between the children of Burgundy and thofe of 
 Hainault, II. 750. — Caufes the daughter of duke Stephen of Bavaria to be brought to France 
 to be married to Charles the Sixth, III. 15. — Applies to the Emperor to intereft himfelf to 
 
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 obtain the liberation of her hufband from the duke of Juliers, 549. — Sends ambafladors to 
 folicit the afliftance of France againft the duke of Gueldres, 557. — Befieges Grave, 
 637. — Makes peace with the duke of Gueldres, IV. 43. 
 Brabanttn, the, befiege Grave, III. 637. — Defeated with great flaughter at the bridge of 
 
 Raveftein, 638. — Abandon the fiege of Grave, 641 . — Refufe to permit the king of France 
 
 and his army to march through their country, 648. 
 Brambcr, fir Nicholas, beheaded by order of the duke of Gloucefler, III. 495. 
 Brantome, the town of, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 69. 
 Brejlau, account of the curious MS. of Froiflart's Chronicles in the Rehdigerian Library 
 
 at, Mem. ioi. Sec. 
 Breji, the caftle of, taken by the earl of Montford as duke of Brittany, I. 174. — Befieged 
 
 by the French under fir Bertrand du Guefclin, 139. — Succoured by the earl of Salifbury, 
 149. — Befieged by fir Oliver de Cliflbn, II. 240. — Befieged a fecond time by him, 
 
 III. 195. 
 Breteuil, the caftle of, taken by the king of France, [. 410. 
 
 Breufe, the vifcount de, captured by the prince of Wales at the battle of Poitiers, I. 418. 
 Brian, fir Guy, defeats a Flemirti fleet off the ifle of Bas, on the coaft of Brittany, II. 91. 
 Brignals, the caftle of, taken by the freebooting companies, I. 582. 
 — — — , the battle of, between lord James of Bourbon and the freebooters, I. 584. 
 Brimcu, the lord de, taken prifoner by the Englifh near Arras, II. 369. 
 Brioude, the town of, furrenders to the French, III. 150. 
 Briftol, befieged by Ifabella, queen of Edward the Second, to obtain pofleflion of her huftand 
 
 and tlie two fir Hugh Spencers, I. 18. — Surrenders to her forces, 19. 
 Brittany, John duke of, his death, I. 171. 
 Brittany, the duchy of, adjudged to the lord Charles of Blois by the parliament of Paris, 
 
 I. 183. 
 Brittany, duke of. — Vide Montford, John de. 
 Brittany, John of, fon of the lord Charles of Blois, obtains his ranfom, after having been 
 
 long imprifoned in England, III. 356. — Marries the daughter of fir Oliver de Cliflbn, 
 
 ibid. 
 Brittany, the lords of, undertake the wardlhip of their young duke, on the death of his 
 
 father John de Montford, IV. 688. 
 Bruce, Robert, I. king of Scotland, defeats the Englifli under Edward the Second, at the 
 
 battle of Barinockburn, I. 5. — Sends a defiance to Edward the Third, 25. — Invades Eng- 
 land, 31. — His dying requeft to lord James Douglas, 48. — His death, 49. 
 Bruce, David II. king of Scotland, retires to France, I. 88. — Enters into an alliance with 
 
 king Philip, 88. — Returns to Scotland, 191 — Aflfembles an army to invade England, 
 
 192. — Takes the town of Durham, 194. — Befieges Wark caftle, 195. — Returns to 
 
 2 A 2 Scotland,
 
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 Scotland, 198. — Invades England a fecond time, 339. — Defeated and taken prifoner at 
 Nevil's Crofs, 344. — Sent to the Tower of London, 349. — Liberated by a treaty of 
 peace, 461.— Comes to England to meet the king of Cyprus, 605. — Enters into a truce 
 with the king of England, IL 52. — His death, 140. 
 Bruges, the town of, enters into an alliance with the men of Ghent, IL 329. — Taken by the 
 men of Ghent, 556. — Its gates and walls demoliflied, 565. — Submits to the mercy of the 
 king of France, after the defeat of the men of Ghent under Philip von Artaveld, 645. 
 Brums, lord Bartholomew de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 438. 
 
 Bruxi the town of, taken by the Englifti under fir James Audley, I. 815. 
 
 Buck, the captal of, defeats the infamous Jacquerie of Bcauvoifis, with great flaughter, 
 I. 476. — Takes the town of Clermont, in Beauvoifis, 496. — Joins the king of Na- 
 varre, 512. — Captured at the battle of Cocherel, in Normandy, 632. — Makes peace 
 between the kings of France and Navarre, and obtains his liberty, 668. — Prevents the 
 town of Lourde from being given up to the French, IL 50. — Taken by the French at 
 Soubife, 120.— Imprifoned in the Temple at Paris, 138. — His death, 247. 
 
 Buckingham, the earl of, appointed to the command of an army to go to the afliftance of the 
 duke of Brittany, IT. 362. — Arrives at Calais, and marches into France, 363. — Burns 
 and defpoils the country of Champagne, 371. — Overruns the countries of Gatinois and 
 Beauce, 381. — Croffes the Sarte with great difficulty, 390. — Arrives at Vannes, in Brit- 
 tany, greatly diflatisfied with the condudt of the duke of Brittany, 396.- — Befieges 
 Nantes, 403. — Remonftrates with the duke of Brittany for not having joined him, 405, 
 407. — Raifes the fiege of Nantes, 410. — Arrives at Vannes, 412. — Returns to England 
 in difguft, 424. — Sufpedted of favouring the rebellion of Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, 466. 
 — Created duke of Gloucefter, HI. 341. — [For the remaining particulars of this prince, 
 fee Gloucefter, duke of.] 
 
 Bucq, fir John de, admiral of Flanders, defeated and captured by the Englifti fleet under the 
 earl of Arundel, III. 365.— Dies in London, 370. 
 
 Budes, Silvefter, makes war on the Romans on the behalf of pope Clement, II. 298. — 
 Beheaded at Mafcon, 306. 
 
 Bujptre, the lord Pierre de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Burgherjh, fir Bartholomew, takes the caftle of Cormicy, in Champagne, I. 545. 
 
 Burgundy, Philip duke of, enters into a compofition with Edward the Third to fpare his 
 duchy, in his march through France, I. 550. — His death, 592. 
 
 Burgundy, Philip (fon of king John of France) duke of, his creation, I. 6i,^. — Sent againft 
 the free companies into Caux, 8cc. 637. — Takes the caftlc of Marcheville, and feveral 
 other places in Beauce, 639, ct feq. — Invades great part of the country of Montbelliard, 
 640. — Takes the town of La Charite, 643. — Appointed to the command of an army to 
 
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 177 
 
 go into Spain againft don Pedro, 673. — Enters Spain, 674. — Marries the daughter of the 
 earl of Flanders, 808. — Appointed to tlie command of an armament againft England, 
 830. — Ordered to march againft the duke of Lancafter at Calais^ 11. i. — Takes the towns 
 of Ardres and Ardvick, 83. — Makes peace between the earl of Flanders and the men of 
 Ghent, 344. — Appointed governor of Picardy, 43c. — Inftigates the king of France to 
 make war on Flanders, 574. — Sends fuccours to the earl of Flanders to oppofe the biftiop 
 of Norwich, 681. — Obtains the town of Sluys in exchange for the country of Bethune, 
 III. 25. — Makes peace with the men of Ghent, 54. — Sends forces to the afllftance of the 
 duchefs of Brabant, againft the duke of Gueldres, 565. — Goes to Blols to meet the duke of 
 Brittany, 62 1. — Accompanies the king of France in his vifit to the pope at Avignon, 95. 
 Ordered to return, to his great diftatisfaiSion, 97. — Appointed regent of France, during 
 the derangement of Charles the Sixth, 34^7. — Treats fir Oliver de Cliflbn, the conftable of 
 France, harflily, 354. — Arrefts feveral of the king's council, 355. 
 
 Burgundy, John of, fon of the duke of Burgundy, appointed commander in chief of an ex- 
 pedition againft the Turks, IV. 459. — Crofles the Danube with a large force, in company 
 with the king of Hungary, 474. — Takes by ftorm the town of Comedte, 476. — Befiegcs 
 Nicopoli, 477. — Defeated by the Turkifli army under the Sultan Bajazet, 518. — Taken 
 prifoner, 522. - Obtains his ranfoni, 565. — Returns to France, 578. 
 
 Burky, fir Simon, taken by the French, I. 801. — Sent to ncgociate a marriage between 
 Richard the Second and the daughter of Charles of Bohemia, emperor of Germany, 
 II. 342. — Advifes the removal of the fhrine of St. Thomas from Canterbury to Dover 
 caftle, by which he gives great offence. III. loi. — Committed to the Tower by order of 
 the commiflioners of accounts, appointed to examine into his conduft during his ad- 
 miniftration, 471. — Beheaded, 475. 
 
 Burky, fir Richard, fon of the aboTC, dies in Caftille, III. 475. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cadillac, the town of, taken by ftorm, II. 208. 
 
 Cadfant, the ifland of, taken by the Englifh, I. 83. 
 
 Caen, the battle of, I. 306. 
 
 Caen, the town of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 307. 
 
 Cahors, the town of, turns to the French intereft, I. 804. 
 
 Cahours, Raoul de, defeats the Englifh under fir Thomas Daggeworth in Brittany, I. 305. 
 
 Calais, the battle of, between the Englifh and French forces, I. 376. 
 
 Calais^ the town of, befieged by Edward the Third, I. 332.— Surrenders to him, 363. 
 
 Caherly,
 
 778 INDEX. 
 
 Calverly, fir Hugh, joins the prince of Wales in Aquitaine witli a large body of the free 
 companies, I. 798. — Endeavours to diffuade the bifhop of Norwich from entering Flanders 
 with the forces under his command, II. 667. 
 
 Camhray, the city of, befieged by Edward the Third, I. 95. 
 
 Cambridge, the earl of, fent to the affiflance of the prince of Wales in Aquitaine, I. 797. — 
 Makes war in Ferigord, Sec. 799. — Takes the town of Bourdeilles, 826. — Leads a body 
 of troops to tlie relief of Belleperche, 11. 39. — Returns to England, 77.-:— Appointed to 
 the command of an army to go to the aflitlance of the king of Portugal againft the king 
 of CaftiUe, 456. — Arrives at Lifbon, 490. — Returns with his army, diflatisfied with the 
 condudl of the king of Portugal, 537. — Created duke of York, III. 341. [For the re- 
 maining particulars of this prince, fee York, the duke of.] 
 
 Camerollcs, the caftle of, taken by the duke of Burgundy, I. 640. 
 
 Camprcny, the earl of, captured by the captal of Buch, I. 555. 
 
 Candor'ur, John, mayor of La Rochelie, obtains pofTeffion of the caftle from the Englirti, 
 by ftratagem, II. 123. 
 
 Canterbury, the archbifliop of, fent to Briftol by the duke of Gloucefter and the Londoners, 
 on an embaffy to Richard the Second, III. 495. — Condu6ls the king to London, 496. — 
 Sent to France with an application from the Londoners to the earl of Derby to return to 
 England, 640. — Condudls the earl to London, 648. 
 
 Caponnal, fir Caponnel de, liberated by exchange, II. 35. 
 
 Captal, the title explained, I. 418, note. 
 
 Carcilhart, the fort of, taken by the Engllfli under fir Thomas Trivet, II. 268. 
 
 Carcntan, the town of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 301. — Retaken by the French under 
 the lord de Coucy, II. 241. 
 
 Carhaix, the town of, taken by the lord Charles of Blois, I. 219. 
 
 Carogne, fir John de, kills James le Gris in a mortal combat, III. 346. 
 
 Carqtiefo'is, the town of, taken by the lord Charles of Blois, I. 186. 
 
 CaJJel, the battle of, I - 5^ . 
 
 Cajfcrcs, the town of, taken by the count de Foix, III. 92. 
 
 CaJJioicl, the callle of, in Auvergne, taken by Aimerigot Marcel, II. 295. 
 
 Cajiillon, the town of, taken by the duke of Anjou, II. 205. 
 
 Cc'rvole, Arnauld de, the archprieft, colleils a body of armed men and pillages Provence, 
 I. 467. — Captured at the battle of Brignais, 581. 
 
 Chalons, the town of, unfuccefsfuUy attacked by fir Peter Audley, I. 435. 
 
 Chalons, the bifhop of, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Chandos, fir John, receives the lands of St. Sauveur le Vicomte as a gift from the king of 
 England, I. 572. — Appointed regent over all the pofleflions of the king of England in 
 
 France,
 
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 France, 577. — Appointed conftable of Guienne, 597. — Sent to the afTiftance of the 
 lord John de Montford in Brittany, 645. — Prevents a peace being concluded between 
 John do Montford and the lord Charles of Blois, 653. — Defeats tlie army of lord Charles 
 at the battle of Auray, 657. — Advifes the prince of Wales not to perfevere in his defign 
 of enforcing the fouage or hearth-tax, and failing to fucceed, retiresto his country feat, 758 
 —Recalled by the prince, and fent to make war on the French and Gafcon lords, 788. — 
 Takes the town of Terrieres, and feveral others in the Touloufain, 803, et fcq. — Ap- 
 pointed fenefchal of Poitou, 835. — Invades and pillages the territories of Anjou and 
 Rochechouart, II. 4. — Killed in a fkirmirti at the bridge of Luffac, 29. 
 
 Chargny, the lord de, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 438. 
 
 Chargny, fir Geoffry de, endeavours to gain pofleflion of Calais, by bribing the governor, fir 
 Aymery de Pavie, 1375. — Defeated by the king of England, 379. — Embarks for Scotland 
 to offer his affiftance againfl England, II. 718. — ^Returns, and is in great danger from 
 the Zealanders, 726. 
 
 Chargny en Dormois, the caftle of, taken by fir John Chandos, I. 540; 
 
 Chariti, La, the town of, in the Nivernois, taken by the lord Lewis of Navarre, I. 638. — 
 Taken by the duke of Burgundy, 643. — Taken a fecond time by the French, III. 143. 
 
 Charlei, emperor of Germany, his death, II. 342. 
 
 Charles of Bohemia, emperor of Germany, collefls a large army to make war on the duke of 
 Gueldres in the caufe of the duchefs of Brabant, III. 549. — Receives his fubmif- 
 fion, 550. 
 
 Charles the Fourth, king of France, takes meafures to affift his filler Ifabella, queen of 
 Edward the Second, againft her hufband and the Spencers, I. 9. — Is prevailed upon by fir 
 Hugh Spencer to break up the expedition which he had encouraged his filler to raife in 
 France, 11. — Commands her to quit the kingdom, 12. — His death, 52. 
 
 Charles the Fifth, of France, crowned at Rheims, I. 635. — Makes peace with the lord John 
 de Montford, and acknowledges him lawful duke of Brittany, 667. — Makes peace with 
 the king of Navarre, 668. — Raifes an army to make war on don Pedro, king of Caf- 
 tille, 672. — Is advifed to declare himfelf lord paramount of Guienne, and to renew the war 
 with England, 771, 777. — Summons the prince of Wales to appear before the parlia- 
 ment of Paris to anfwer the complaints of fome Gafcon lords, 778.. — Makes preparations 
 to renew the war againft the Englifh, 783. — Gains over feveral captains of the free com 
 panics, 789. — Sends his challenge to the king of England, 790. — Prepares an armament 
 for the invafion of England, 830. — Breaks up the expedition in confequence of the arrival 
 of the duke of Lancafter at Calais, 831. — Aflembles a large force, to make war on 
 Aquitaine, II. 44.— Makes peace with the king of Navarre, 46. — Enters into an alliance 
 with don Henry, king of Caftille, 95. — Makes peace with the king of Navarre, 140. — 
 Sends an army to invade the duchy of Brittany, 142. — Enters into a truce with the 
 
 Englifh,
 
 iSo INDEX. 
 
 Englifti, 169. — Fits out a fleet for the invafion of England, which does confiderable 
 mifchief, 181. — Declares war againft the king of Navarre, 185. — Inftigates the king of 
 Scotland to make war on England. 215. — Seizes the poflTeflions of the king of Navarre in 
 Normandy, 240. — Sends an ambaffador to the king of Scotland, 284. — His ambaflador 
 detained by the earl of Flanders, 285. — Orders tlie earl of Flanders to fend the duke of 
 Brittany out of his dominions, 288. — Puts liimfelf under obedience to Clement as the 
 lawful pope, 298. — Afflifted with a fingular diforder, 386. — His laft words and advice on 
 his death-bed, 387. — Dies at Paris, 390. 
 Charles the Sixth, of France, crowned at Rheims, IT. 397. — Sends an army to the aflTiftancc 
 of the king of Caftille, 531. — Determines to make war on Flanders in behalf of the 
 earl, 576. — On account of a dream, he choofes a flying hart for his device, 577. — Endea- 
 vours to treat with the Flemings, 588. — Colle£ls a large force to reduce them to obe- 
 dience, 596. — Defeats the Flemifh army at the bridge of Commines, 620. — Receives the 
 fubmiffion of Ypres and feveral other places, 622, ct fcq. — Defeats the Flemings, under 
 Philip von Artaveld, with great flaughter, 640. — Enters Courtray, 642. — Receives the fub- 
 miflTion of Bruges, 645. — Returns to France, 653. — Makes liis entrance into Paris, 656. — 
 Aflembles a large army to oppofe the bifhop of Norwich in Flanders, 684. — Takes Caflel 691, 
 and Eourbourg, 704. — Returns to France, 708. — Enters into a truce with England, 711. — 
 Prepares to renew the war, 732. — Marries the lady Ifabella, of Bavaria, III. 23. — Makes 
 great preparations to invade England, 284. — Promifes to affift the kingof Caftille, 396. — Joins 
 his armament at Sluys, 331. — Puts ofF his defign, and dilbands his army, 337. — Makes 
 preparations to aflift the king of Caftille, 363. — Prepares another armament againft Eng- 
 land, under ftr Oliver de Cliflbn, 408, 413. — His deiigns fruftrated by the arreft of fir 
 Oliver by the duke of Brittany, 418. — Receives an infulting defiance from the duke of 
 Gueldres, 432. — Commands the duke of Brittany to reftore fir Oliver de CliflTon the 
 places which he had unjuftly taken from him for his ranfom, 458. — Receives a haughty 
 anfwer from him, 460. — Promifes to affift the duchefs of Brabant againft the duke of 
 Juliers, 557. — Invites the duke of Ireland (who had been banifhed England by the duke 
 of Gloucefter and his party) to refide in France, 593. — Prepares an army to invade Guel- 
 derland, 644. — Sends ambaffadors to explain his intentions to the emperor of Germany, 
 646. — Receives favourable anfwers, 650. — Enters the duchy of Juliers, IV . 37. — Receives 
 the fubmiffion of the duke of Gueldres, 43. — Returns to France, 44. — Takes upon himfelf 
 the government of France, on coming of age, 48. — Sends ambaflfadors to the king of 
 Caftille, to remonftrate with him on the marriage of his fon, the infanta of Spain, with 
 the daughter of the duke of Lancafter, 49. — Enters into a truce with the king of Eng- 
 land, 70. — Orders the duke of Ireland to quit France, 93. — Vifits the pope at Avignon, 
 05. — Vifits Montpellier, &c. 125, et feq. — Receives the homage of the count de Foix 
 at Touloufe, 119. — Travels with great fpeed from Montpellier to Paris, for a wager againft 
 
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 the duke of Touraine, 125. — Reproves the count d'Oftrevant for accepting the order of 
 the Garter from the king of England, 235. — Propcfes to march to Italy to reftore the 
 union of the church, 243. — Receives ambafladors from the king of England with propo- 
 fitions for a peace, 245. — On the death of the count de Foix, fends ambafladors to Orthes, 
 to make fome arrangements refpeding the country, 278. — Meets the duke of Brittany at 
 Tours, to make an amicable fettlement of the differences between them, 287. — Acknow- 
 ledges the vifcount de Chateaubon heir and fucccflbr to the count de Foix, 294. —Agrees 
 to marry his daughter to the fon of the duke of Brittany, 299. — Receives the commif- 
 fioners from the king of England at Amiens, 305. — Not being able to conclude a peace, he 
 enters into a truce for a year, 311. — Commands thcduke of Brittany to deliver up fir Peter 
 dcCraon, who had fled to Brittany, after attempting to aflaffinate fir Oliver de Cliflbn, 329. 
 — After receiving the duke's refufal, he leads an army againft him towards Brittany, 
 330. — Arrives at Mans, 334. — Is accofled by a madman in the foreft of Mans, who orders 
 him to return, 340. — Becomes deranged, 342. — His expedition is, in confequence, broken 
 up, 343. — Removed to Creil for the benefit of his health, 345. — Recovers his fcnfes, 
 366. — Returns to Paris, 371. — In great danger of lofing his life at a mafqued dance, 372. 
 — Appoints commiflioners to negociate a peace with the king of England at Leulinghen, 
 389. — Prolongs the truce with him, 396. — Relapfes into his former malady, 397. — Sends 
 ambafladors to the duke of Lancafter in Aquitaine, to learn his intentions in coming to 
 that country, 416. — Sends Robert the hermit to England, to aflift in bringing about a 
 peace between the two countries, 444. — Liberates the lord de la Riviere and fir John 
 le Mercier, who had been imprifoned by his uncles during his derangement, 4+8. — Ap- 
 points John, fon of the duke of Burgundy, commander in chief of an expedition againft 
 the Turks in Hungary, 459. — Betroths his daughter, the lady Ifabella, to Richard 
 the Second of England, 467. — Sets out for St. Omer, to meet the king of England, 508. — 
 Has an interview with him at Ardres, 511. — Delivers up his daughter to him, 512. — Pro- 
 pofes to lead an army into Lombardy againft the duke of Milan, 513. — Meets the emperor 
 of Germany at Rheims, to confer upon meafures to reftore the reunion of the church, 590. 
 — Sends ambafladors to pope Boniface, to acquaint him with the refolutions of the aflem- 
 tly, 6cg. — Sends the fame to pope Benedict at Avignon, 612. — Informed of the imprifon- 
 ment of Richard the Second in the Tower of London, 674. — Relapfes again into his 
 derangement, ibid. — His council fend perfons over to England to vifit his daughter, queen 
 IfabcUa, during the confinement of the king, 678. 
 
 Charles, king of Navarre, caufes the conftable of France to be murdered, I. 397. — Obtains 
 the king's pardon, 399. 
 
 Charles, fon of the king of Navarre, marries the daughter of Henry of Caftille, II. 274. 
 
 Charles, of Spain, earl of Angouleme, appointed conftable of France, II. 395. — Marries 
 
 3 B the
 
 j8z index. 
 
 the daughter of the lord Charles of Blois, 396. — Murdered by order of Charles of Na- 
 varre, 397. 
 
 Charter of Peace, between the king of England and the duke of Normandy, I. 559. 
 
 Chateau-ceaux, the caflle of, taken by the lord Charles of Blois, I. 185. 
 
 Chatel-bon, the vifcount de, claims the fucceflion of Foix, IV. 283. — His claim acknow- 
 ledged by the king of France, 294. — Takes pofleflion of tlie county as his inheritance, 
 305. — Does homage to the king of France, 371. 
 
 Chatelheraut, the town of, taken by the French, II. 37. 
 
 Chatelmorant, fir Joiin de, carries over from England truces for three years, figned by king 
 Richard and his allies, IV. 87. — Sent to Turkey, to treat for the ranfom of the duke of 
 Burgundy and the other officers taken at the battle of Nicopoli, 529. 
 
 Chatillon, fir Hugh de, conquers Ponthieu from the Englifli, I. 793. — Captured at Abbeville, 
 II. 24. — Efcapes from England, 165., 
 
 Chaumont, the hermit, taken prifoner at Romorantin by the prince of Wales, I. 415. 
 
 Chauv'igny, the lord of, taken prifoner by the prince of Wales, I. 418. — Quits the party of 
 the prince of Wales for that of the king of France, 814. 
 
 Chauvigny,^^^t town of, in Poitou, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. in. 
 
 Cherbourg, the town of, burnt and pillaged by Edward the Third, I. 301. — Befieged by fir 
 Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 187. 
 
 Chimay, the town of, pillaged by the French, I. 113. 
 
 Civray, the town of, in Poitou, taken bv fir Bertrand du Guefclin, IT. J35. 
 
 Civray, the battle of, II. 135. 
 
 Clement the Sixth, pope, dies at Avignon, I. 397. 
 
 Clement the Seventh, pope, defied during the life-time of Urban the Sixth, which caufcs 
 a fchlfm in the church, II. 297. — Is acknowledged by the king of France, &c. 298. — Goes 
 to Avignon, 305. — Prefents the duke of Anjou with the territories of the queen of 
 Naples, which fhe had given wp to his difpofal, 305. — Dies at Avignon, IV. 399. 
 
 Clermont, the town of, in Beauvoifis, taken by the captal of Buch, I. 496. 
 
 Clermont, the cardinal of, eleded pope, under the name of Innocent the Sixth, I. 397. 
 
 Clermont, lord John, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 429. 
 
 Clijfon, fii Walter de, flain at Breft, 1. 174. 
 
 Cltjjon, the lord of, captured at Vannes, I. 2j8. — Exchanged for lord Stafford, 243. — 
 Beheaded at Paris, 244. 
 
 Cl'iffon, fir Oliver de, befieges the town of Becherel, II. 139. — Befieges La Roche fur Yon, 
 144. — Takes the town of Dinant, 344. — Appointed conllable of France, 398. — Befieges 
 Brefl, II [. igij. — His fleet difperfed by a ftorm on his voyage to Sluys, to join the arma- 
 ment of the king of France, 336. — Obtains the liberation of John of Blois from 
 
 land.
 
 INDEX. ,83 
 
 England, and marries him to liis daughter, 356. — Makes preparations to invade Eng- 
 land, 408, 413. — Arretted by the duke of Brittany at the caftie of Ermine, 418. — Obtains 
 his liberty, 423. — Complains to the king of France of the condudl of the duke of Brittany, 
 and ofFers to rcfign his office of conftabic, 430. — Retires to Montlehery, 432. — Takes 
 the town of St. Malo and St. Matthieu de Fine Poterne, 603.— His caftles reftored to 
 him by the duke of Brittany, 612. — Way-laid and feverely wounded by fir Peter de Craon, 
 IV. 320. — On account of his wealth, he incurs the fufpicions and hatred of the dukes of 
 Berry and Burgundy, 331. — Treated with great harfhness by the duke of Burgundy, 354. 
 — Retires from Paris, 355. — Summoned to appear before the parliament of Paris, 36a. — 
 Not anfwering to the fummons, he is banifhed the kingdom, 364. — Wages a violent 
 warfare againfl; the duke of Brittany, 384. — Makes peace with him, 4^4. 
 
 Cobourne, the caltle of, in Limoufin, taken by a robber of the name of Bacon, I. 372. 
 
 Cockerel, the battle of, in Normandy, 1. 62^. 
 
 Combat, the noted, between thirty Bretons and thirty Englifh, I. 374, note. — Between fir 
 Bertrand du Guefclin and fir Nicholas Dagworth, at Rennes, 463. — Between fir Aymon 
 
 de Pommiers and fir Foulque d'Archiac, before the king of France at Villeneuve, 598. 
 
 Remarkable one at Lar, between the garrifon of Lourde and Tarbe, III. 109. — Mortal, 
 at Paris, between fir John de Carogne and James le Gris, III. 346. 
 
 Comeile, the town of, in Turkey, taken by florni by the combined chriftian armies under 
 the king of Hungary and John of Burgundy, IV. 476. 
 
 Comfit Box, (drageoir) a fpice box ufed in the deflerts of the great, fome account of, IV. 
 132, note. 
 
 Commijfioners fent to France, to execute the conditions of the peace between France and 
 England, I. 575. 
 
 appointed to examine into the condudl of the managers of the finances under 
 
 Richard the Second, III. 469. — Commit fir Simon Burley to the Tower, 471. — Condemn 
 him to death, 474. — Appoint a new council for the king, 476. 
 
 Concarneau, the town of, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 144. 
 
 Conferences held at Avignon between the French and Englifli to negociate a peace, I. 401. 
 
 held at Leulinghen for the fame purpofc, IV. 389. 
 
 Connie, the caftie of, taken by the duke of Burgundy, \. 641. 
 
 Conquct, the caftie of, taken by the forces of the lord Charles of Blois, I. 311, Retaken 
 
 by fir Walter Manny, 213. 
 
 Conjiance, the lady, daughter of don Pedro, king of Caftille, married to the duke of Lan- 
 cafter, II. 94. 
 
 Convalle, the caftie of, taken by the French under fir Walter de PafTac, III. 304. 
 
 Copeland, John, captures the king of Scotland at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, I. 344. Delivers 
 
 him up to the queen of England by order of king Edward, who was at Calais, 348. 
 
 2 B 2 Coraje,
 
 i84 INDEX. 
 
 CoraJJe, the lord of, faid to have been fervcd by a familiar fpirit called Oithon, III. 198. 
 
 Cormicy, the caftle of, taken by (ir Bartholomew Burgherft, I. 545. 
 
 Coucy, the lord Raoul de, captured at Mancanfeil, I. 490. 
 
 Coucy, the lord de, declines taking any part in the wars between the kings of France and 
 England, II. 34i — Leads a large army into Auftria, 173. — Returns without having cf- 
 fefted any thing, 177. — Takes the town of Bayeux, &c. II. 241. — Takes the town of 
 Evreux, 250. — Appointed governor of Picardy, 359. — Appeafes the Parifian infurgents, 
 503. — Endeavours to gain over the duke of Brittany to the French intereft, 608. — Ac- 
 companies the lord Lewis of Anjou, king of Sicily, to Arragon, IV. 88. — Refufes to 
 accept the oflBcc of conftable of France after the difgrace of fir Oliver de Cliflbn, 380.— 
 Defeats a large Turkifh force near Nicopoli, 487.— Capturcdat the battle of Nicopoli, 
 520. — Dies at Burfa, in Hungary, 560.. 
 
 Coulogne, fir Robert de, flain in a fkirmifh at Tournehem, II. i5. 
 
 Council of State, a new one appointed for Richard the Second by the commiffioners of ac- 
 counts, III. 476. 
 
 Courlray, the town of, turns to the intereft of the earl of Flanders, II. 434. — Befieged by the 
 men of Ghent under Peter du Bois, 445.— Burnt by order of the king of France, 650. 
 
 CoMtantln, the battle of, between the French and Englifli, I. 455. 
 
 Craoit, the lord of, taken prifoner by the prince of Wales at Romorantin, I. 415. 
 
 Craon, fir Peter de, incurs the difpleafure of the king of France, IV. 266. — Retires to 
 Brittany, 269. — Way-lays and endeavours to aflaffinate fir Oliver de Cliflbn, 320. — Takes 
 refuge in Brittany, 328. — Endeavours to make his peace with the king of France, 457. — 
 Profecuted in the courts of Paris by the duchefs of Anjou, 457. — Judgment being given 
 againft him, he is committed to prifon, 470. — Obtains his liberty, 153. — Accompanies 
 Henry, carl of Derby, into England, 645. 
 
 Crecy, the battle of, L 324. 
 
 Credo, the caftle of, in Brittany, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 148. 
 
 Creil, the town of, taken by the king of Navarre, I. 487. 
 
 Croifade, preached againft the Saracens, I. 72. — Againft the free-booting companies by pop* 
 Innocent the Seventh, 588. 
 
 Croquart, a page, turns robber, I. 373. — Killed by the fall of his horfe, 375. 
 
 Crctcy, the town of, taken by Edward the Third, J. 517. — Retaken by fir Hugh de Chatil- 
 lon, 793. 
 
 D. 
 
 Daggnvorth, fir Thomas, fent into Brittany to the afliftance of the countefs of Montford, 
 I. 349. — Taken prifoner before La Roche d'Errien, 357. — Killed in Brittany, 393. 
 
 Dairt^
 
 INDEX. 185 
 
 Daire, John, a citizen of Calais, his patriotic condudl duiing tlie fiege of that city by 
 Edward the Third, I. 365. 
 
 Dalkeith, the caftle of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 68. 
 
 Damaxan, the caflle of, taken by the duke of Normandy, I. 292; 
 
 Dammartln, the earl of; flain at the battle of Poitiers, II. 438. 
 
 Damme, the town of, taken by the men of Ghent, II. 562. III. 2i. — Taken by the 
 king of France, 26. 
 
 Dampmartln, the lord de, rcfifts the dukes of Berry and Burgundy in their attempts 
 to break ofF the marriage of his daughter with the fon of the lord de la Riviere, 
 IV. 361. 
 
 Death, remarkable of a foldier, who had facrilegioufly robbed the church of Ronay, in 
 Champagne, I. 517. 
 
 Dedication, I. iii. 
 
 Desd of arms, between fir Thomas Harpurgan, and fir John des Barres, III. 625. 
 
 ■ , between five Englilh and five French knights, before the duke of Lancaftcr 
 
 at Bourdeaux, IV. 62. 
 
 Deputatiom from tlie different towns of England wait on Richard the Second at Windfor to 
 lay their grievances before him, and to demand redrefs. III. 465. 
 
 Derby, the earl of, appointed to the command of a large army to go into Gafcony, I. 248. 
 — Takes Bergerac and feveral other places in Gafcony and Poitou, 251, 336. — Created 
 duke of Lancafler, 3K4. 
 
 Derby, Henry earl of, marries the lady Mary, daughter of the earl of Hereford, II. 402. — 
 Appointed the lieutenant of his father, the duke of Lancafter, during his abfence in 
 Spain, III; 267. — Challenged by the earl marlhal of England in the prefence of the 
 king, 595. — Baniflied the kingdom, 603. — Goes to Paris, 604. — The people of England 
 rife in his favour, 636. — Receives a requefl from the people of London to return to Eng- 
 land, 642. — Arrives in London, 648. — Undertakes the government of England, and 
 determines to feize the throne, 649.^ — Marches towards Briftol againft Richard the Second, 
 650. — Takes him prifoner, and condudls him to London, 6j6. — Crowned king of Eng- 
 land under the title of Henry the Fourth, 66g.— In danger of being murdered by the 
 carls of Huntingdon and Salifbury, 683. 
 
 Derval, thecaftle of, befieged by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, 11. 146. — Relieved by fir Robert 
 Knolles, 150. 
 
 Defpondc, Dinde, a rich merchant, employed to negociate the ranfom of John of Burgundy 
 and his companions from the fultan Bajazet, IV. 539. 
 
 Dejlournay, the lord, takes the town of Oudenarde by ftratagem, II. 728. 
 
 Devercux, fir John, takes the caftle of Uzes, in Auvergne, II. 87. 
 
 Digkos, the town of, in Galicia, furrenders to the duke of Lancafter's army, III. 317. 
 
 Dinant^
 
 i86 INDEX. 
 
 Dlnant, the town of, in Brittany, taken by the forces of the lord Charles of Blois, I. 212. — 
 
 Taken by the Englilh under Edward the Third, 239 — Surrenders to the lord John dc 
 
 Montford, 664. — Taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 143. — Taken by fir Oliver 
 
 de Cliflbn, 344. 
 D'lffcnthns at York between the archers of England and the Hainaulters, I. 28. 
 Dormans, fir William de, preaches the juftice of the caufe of the French king, I. 805. 
 Doublet, Oliver, beheaded at Rouen, I. 408. 
 Douglas, fir Archibald, Defeated and captured by fir Thomas Mufgrave, near Melrofe, II. 
 
 226. 
 Douglas, lord James, departs for the Holy Land to fulfil the requefl of Robert Bruce the 
 
 Firft, I. 50. — Killed in Spain, fighting againft the Saracens, 51. 
 Douglas, lord William, takes the caflle of Edinburgh by flratagem, I. 152. — Taken pri- 
 
 foner at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, 346. 
 Douglas, the earl of, invades England with a large force, IV. 6. — Takes the pennon of fir 
 
 Henry Percy before Newcallle, 8. — Slain at the battle of Otterbourne, 14. 
 Dream, remakable, of Charles the Sixth of France, [I, 577. 
 Drue, the caftle of, taken by the duke of Normandy, I. 640. 
 Duel, at Paris, between James le Gris and John de Carogne, III. 346. 
 Dumbarton, the caftle of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 67. 
 Dumfermline, the town of, deftroyed by Richard the Second, III 45. 
 Dundee, the town of, burnt by Richard the Second, III. 46. 
 Dunkirk, the town of, taken by the bifliop of Norwich, II. 676. 
 Duras, the town of, taken by florin by the duke of Anjou, II. 208. 
 Duras, the lord de, captured by the French under the duke of Anjou, II. 200. — Turns to 
 
 the French interefl, but quits it afterwards, 203. 
 Durazzo, the lord Charles de, defends the kingdom of Naples againft the pretenfions of the 
 
 duke of Anjou, II. 517. — Put to death in Hungary, III. 15. 
 Durham, the city of, taken and deftroyed by the Scots, I. 194. — [This account fuppofed to 
 
 be fabulous, 198, noteJ] 
 Durham, the bilhop of, compelled to retreat in his attempt to refcue fir Henry Percy, IV. 24. 
 
 — Makes fir John Lindfay, prifoner, a6.— Marches to attack the Scots camp, but returns 
 
 without attempting it, ib. and 29. 
 
 E. 
 
 Edinburgh, the town of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 67. — Retaken by fir William 
 
 Douglas, I. 152. — Deftroyed by Richard the Second, III. 45. 
 Edward the Firji, king of England, his charadter and fuccefles, I. 4. — His fingular Tequeft 
 
 on his death-bed, 70. 
 
 Edward
 
 INDEX. 187 
 
 Eduiard the Second, his cliaracler, I. 5. — An account of his family relations, ib. — In- 
 fluenced in his government by fir Hugh Spencer, 7. — Shuts himfelf up in Brillol againfl: 
 the queen and her party, 18. — Taken prifoner by them, 20. — Confined in Berkeley 
 Caftle, 21. — Publicly depofed, and fentenced by the people of England to be imprifoned 
 during his life, 24. 
 
 Edward the Third crowned king of England, I. 23. — Receives a defiance from Robert 
 Bruce, king of Scotland, 26. — Leads a large army to oppofe the invafion of the Scots, j,'^. 
 — Returns, 44. — Manies the lady Philippa of llainault, 46. — Enters into a truce with 
 the Scots, 48. — Does homage to the king of France for tiie duchy of Guienne, 60. — 
 Raifes an army to invade Scotland, 66. — Takes Edinburgh and feveral other places, 67. 
 — Returns to England. 70 — Takes meafures to make war on the king of France, 74. — 
 Solicits the friendfliip of the Flemings, 79. — Paffcs over to Flanders, and makes great 
 alliances in the empire, 85. — Appointed vicar-general of the empire of Germany, 8g. — 
 Sends his defiance to the king of France, 91.— Befieges Cambray, 95. — Marches into 
 Fiance, 99. — Returns to Hainault, 109. — Affumes the arms of France, no. — Returns 
 to England, 112. — Sails with a large armament for Flanders, 141. — Defeats the French 
 at fea, and arrives at Ghent, 143. — Befieges Tournay, 146. — Returns to England in 
 confequence of a truce being entered into, 170. — Receives the homage of lord John de 
 Montford for the duchy of Brittany, iSo. — Aflembles an army to oppofe an invafion of 
 the Scots, 189. — Is enamoured of the countcfs of Salifbury, 198. — Sends a force to the 
 afliftance of the loid John de Montford, 203. — Makes great feafts out of afFcdion to 
 the countefs of Salifbury, 225. — Sends reinforcements into Brittany, 227. — Heads a large 
 army into Brittany, 235. — Befieges the town of Vannes, ib. — Befieges and takes feveral 
 other places, '^'^6. — Enters into a truce with the French, and returns to England, 243. — 
 Inftitutes the order of the garter, 245. — Founds the chapel of St. George at Windfor, ib. 
 Sends his defiance to the king of France, 247. — Appoints the earl of Derby to the 
 command of an expedition into Gafcony, 248. — Heads a large army into Normany, 299. 
 — Takes the town of Barfleur, and feveral others, 300, ct Jiq. — Marches towards Paris, 
 defiroying tlie country on his way, 3 1 x. — Difirefled to find a paflage over the Somme, 31c. 
 — Is condudled to one by a peafant named Gobin Agace, 316. — Engages the French 
 under king Philip, at Crecy, and totally defeats them, 324, et feq^. — Befieges the town of 
 Calais, 332. — Solicits the friendfliip of the Flemings, 'i,c^\. — Obtains pofleiHon of Calais, 
 365. — Orders fix refpedable citizens, who, for the fecurity of the other inhabitants, had 
 
 generoufly volunteered to fubmit themfelves to his pleafure, to be put to death, 366. Is 
 
 diffuaded from his purpofe by the queen, 367. — Orders all the old inhabitants of the town 
 to be expelled, 369.— Makes his public entry into Calais, ib. — Enters into a truce with 
 the king of France, 370. — The expence of his efiablilhmeat at Calais, 371, note. — Fights 
 
 inc!jz>iit»
 
 i88 INDEX. 
 
 inctgnito near Calais, under the banner of fir Walter Manny, 379. — Takes fir Euftace dc 
 Ribeaumont prifoiier, 379. — Prefents him with a chaplet of pearls in honour of his 
 prowefs, 381. — Defeats the Spaniards at fea, 389. — Lead^ a large army into France during 
 the imprifonment of king John in England, 538. — Befieges Rheims, 538. — Takes the 
 town of Tonncrre, 548. — Enters into a compofition with the duke of Burgundy to fparc 
 his duchy, 550. — Proceeds towards Paris, deflroying the country in his march, 551. — 
 Enters into a trealy of peace with the king of France, 55S. — Entertains him at Calais, 
 ^71. — Returns to England, 573. — Declines embarking in the Croifades, 605. — Receives 
 a defiance from the king of France, 791. — Sends reinforcements into Ponthieu, &c. 793. 
 Sends to Brabant and Hainault for aiTillance, 806. — Enters into alliance with the king of 
 Navarre, 810. — Sends the duke of Lancafter with a large body of men to Calais, 831. — 
 Applies to fir Robert de Namur for his affillance, 831. — Raifes a large force to make war 
 on the king of France, II. 45. — Enters into a truce with the Scots, 52. — Makes peace 
 with the Flemings, 89. — Prepares an army to invade France, 98. — 'Sails for Southampton, 
 but is obliged to return by contrary winds, 129. — Enters into a truce with the French, 
 169. — Dies at Shene, 179. 
 Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, his valour at the battle of .Crecy, I. 327. — Heads an 
 army into Gafcony, 403. — Invades the county of Berry, 410. — Takes the town of 
 Romorantin, 413. — .Defeats and captures John king of France at the battle of Poitiers, 
 434. — Embarks for England with his prifoner, 459. — Arrives in London, ib. — Ac- 
 companies the king of England in an expedition againfl France, 531. — Sets out for 
 Aquitaine, 592. — Makes preparations to aflill Don Pedro, king of Caftille, 690. — 
 Promifes the king of Majorca to affifl him againft the king of Arragon, 703. — Offends 
 the lord d'Albret, 705. — Sets out on his expedition into Spain, 711. — Takes the town of 
 Salvatierra, 718. — Defeats the army of Don Henry de Traftamare, king of Caflille, at 
 the battle of Navareta, 739. — Takes the town of Najara, 739. — Sets out on his return to 
 Aquitaine, difpleafed with the conduit of Don Pedro, 750. — Arrives with his army at 
 Bourdeaux, 751.— Endeavours to impofe the fouage, or a hearth tax, in Aquitaine, 756. 
 —Excites the difcontent and oppofition of many of the lords of Gafcony, ih. — Sum- 
 moned to appear before the parliament of Paris to anfwer their complaints, 778. — His 
 refolute anfwer to the fummons, 780. — Prepares to makje war on France, 786. — Recalls 
 fir John Chandos from his retirement, and appoints him to the command of a force againft 
 the French and Gafcon lords, 788. — Receives fuccours from England under the earls of 
 Cambridge and Pembroke, 797. — Prepares tooppofe the dukes of Anjou and Berry, II. 59. 
 Takes the town of Limoges by ftorm, 67. — On the death of his eldeft fon Edward gives 
 up the duchy of Aquitaine to the care of his brother the duke of Lancaller, and 
 returns to England, 77. — His death, 176. — Vifits the count d'Armagnac at Tarbes, 
 
 HI. 82.
 
 INDEX. 189 
 
 III. 83. — Is vifited by the count de Foix, 83. — Appoints fir Peter Arnaut governor 
 
 of Lourde, 84. 
 Elmham, fir William, committed to the Tower by the commiflioners of accounts, on a 
 
 charge of having fold Bourbourg and Gravclines to ihe French, HI. 472. 
 Englijh, their manners in the time of Froiffart, III. 308. 
 
 Entenfa, the town of, in Galicia, furrenders to the duke of Lancafter, III. 385. 
 Escaudoure, the caftle of, in Ilainault, taken and deftroved, I. 133. 
 Ejpaign, the bourg d', his remarkable (Irength, III. no. 
 
 Ejlampcs, the count de, fent to endeavour to win over the duke of Brittany to the French 
 • intereft, III. 589. 
 Eu, the ear! of, taken prifoner by the Englifli under Edward the Third, I. 307. — Beheaded 
 
 at Paris, 394. 
 Eu, the count de. See Artois, Philip d'. 
 Evan, of Wales, receives a naval command under the king of France, II. 105 — Defeats 
 
 the Englifti in the ifland of Guernfey, 106. — Sent to Spain to folicit afliftance from king 
 
 Henry, 107. — Infults the earl of Pembroke at St. Andero, 109. — Blockades the town of 
 
 La Rochelle, 119. — Takes the caftle of Soubife, I30. — Befieges Mortain-fur-mer, 311. 
 
 — Aflaffinated by John Lambe, 249. 
 Evreux, the county of, fubdued for the king of France by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, 
 
 II. 250. 
 
 , the city and caftle of, reconquered from the king of France, I. 464. 
 
 Europe, defolated by the plague, I. 393, note. 
 
 Eujiace, de St. Pierre, a citizen of Calais, his patriotic condudl during the fiege of that 
 
 town, I. 365. 
 
 F. 
 Famine, a great one, in France, I. 494. 
 FaucUle, John de, a citizen of Ghent, retires from the town after the murder of the bailifF 
 
 by the Whitehoods, II. 313. — Dies at Lifle, II. 450. 
 Fay, fir Godemar du, defends the ford of Blanchetaque againft Edward the Third and 
 
 his army, I. 31 7.— Defeated by the Englifli, 318. — Narrowly efcapes being put to 
 
 death, 334. 
 Felton, fir William, his brilliant exploit againft the Spaniards, I. 723. — Killed, 724. 
 Fclton, fir Thomas, captured by the French under the duke of Anjou, II. 197. 
 Felton, Thomas, killed at the battle of Otterbourne, IV. ig. 
 FeneJIrages, the lord Broquart de, takes the town of Hans, I. 512. — Defeated and captured by 
 
 fir Euftace d'Ambreticourt, 514. 
 Ferdinand, king of Portugal, declares war againft John king of Caftille, II. 454. — Applies 
 
 to England for afliftance, ib. — Takes the field againft the Spaniards, 532. — Makes peace 
 
 2 c with
 
 190 INDEX. 
 
 with the king of Caftille, 534. — Marries his daughter the infanta to him, 537.— His 
 death, ib. — Marries the wife of one of Iiis kniglits, III. 239. 
 
 Fenol, the town of, taken by the king of Portugal, III. 44.7. 
 
 Fitzwalter, the lord, dies in Spain, III. 617. 
 
 Flanders, the origin of the civil wars in, II. 307. 
 
 Flandas, the nobility of, make war on the men of Ghent, II. 355- 
 
 Flanders, the earl of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 . , Lewis earl of, betrothed, through the conftraint of the Flemings, to Ifabella, 
 
 daughter of the king of England, I. 249. — Efcapes into France, 354. — Marries the daughter 
 of the duke of Brabant, 383. — Detains an ambaffador from the king of France to the 
 king of Scotland, II. 284. — Supports the caufe of pope Urban in his dominions, againfl: 
 the Clementirts, 306. — Endeavours to put down the Whitehoods, which had been revived 
 at Ghent, 318. — Colleds a force to make war on them, 326. — Makes peace with them, 
 338. — Comes to Ghent at the entreaty of the inhabitants, 346. — Endeavours to prevail 
 on them to lay afide the Whitehoods, 348. — Caufes John Pruniaux to be beheaded, 354. 
 — Goes to Bruges at the requeft of the inhabitants, 439. — Renev/s the war with the men 
 of Ghent, 430. — Befieges the town, 435. — Defeats the men of Ghent under Rafle de 
 Harzelle, and bums a body of them in the church of Nevele, 441. — Befieges again the 
 town of Ghent, 493. — Defeated by the men of Ghent at Bruges, 555. — Efcapes witli 
 great diflBcuIty to Lifle, 563. — Applies to the king of France for affiftance, 595. — 
 Becomes an objedt of hatred to the Englilh, 661.— Applies to the duke of Burgundy for 
 affiftance to oppofe the bifliop of Norwich, 677. — Dies at St. Omer, 713. — The ceremony 
 of his funeral, 713. 
 
 Flemings, under Colm Donncquin, defeated at Caflel by Philip of Valois, I. 54. 
 
 , under Jacob von Artaveld, prumife to affift Edward the Third againft the king of 
 
 France, I. ill. — Remain firm to their alliance, notwithilanding the folicitations of the 
 king of France, laa. 
 
 , under Robert d'Artois, flee in confufion from before St. Omer, I. 167. 
 
 — — , refufe to difinhcrit the earl of Flanders, I. 284. — Conftrain him to be betrothed to the 
 
 daugliter of the king of England, 353. — Befiege the town of Aire, 359. — Defeated by 
 the Englifli off the ifland of Bas, II. 91. — Make peace witli the king of England, 92. 
 
 Fo'tx, Gafton Phoebus, Count of, — Defeats the infamous Jacquerie of Beauvoifis, with 
 great flaughter at Meaux, I.476. — VifitsthefrinceofWales.it T'arbes, 111 83. — Remits, 
 at the entreaty of the princefs of Wales, fixty thoufand francs of the ranfom of the 
 count d'Armagnac, 83. — Takes the town of Cafferes from the Armagnacs, 92. — His riches 
 and liberality, 103. — Murders fir Peter Arnaut, 115. — Obtains Malvoifin from the king of 
 France as a gift, 117. — Origin of the wars between him and the Aruiagnacs, 122. — His 
 charailer and manner of life, 125. — Kills his fon and heir Gallon, 133. — His manner of 
 
 keeping
 
 INDEX. 191 
 
 keeping the feaft of St. Nidiolas, 137. — Rapidly and in a fecret manner informed of the 
 battle of Aljuharota, ]88. — Grants pcrmifiion to the French aimv to pafs thiougli his ter- 
 ritories, on tlie way to Caftillc, 386. — Magnihcently entertains the duke of Bouibon on his 
 return towards France, ^2^. — Prevents the count d'Ai magnac from fucceeding in his attempt 
 to purchale the forts occupied by the free companies, 533. — Marries his ward, ilie daughter 
 of the count of Boulogne, to the duke of Berry, IV. 6g. — Docs homage to the king of 
 France at Touloufe for the county of Foix, 114. — His deatii, 271. — And funeral, 280. 
 
 Foix, Evan of, burnt to death at a mafked dance in Paris, IV. 375. 
 
 Fontenay k Comte, the cartle of, taken by fir Bertraiul du Guefclin, II. i27. 
 
 Forgajfe, Laurence, an ambaflador from Portugal to England, relates to the duke of Lan- 
 cafter the events which had happened in Portugal after the departure of the earl of Cam- 
 bridge, III. 238. 
 
 5/. Forget, the caftle of, taken by fir Walter dc Paflac, III. 196. 
 
 Forfath, in Gafcony, taken by the earl of Dt;rby, I. 256. 
 
 Fouage, the nature of tlie tax fo called, I. 752, note. 
 
 France, the kingdom of, fufFers by famine, I. 494. 
 
 Frlcjland, invaded by the count of Hainault, IV. 5C0. 
 
 FroiJJait, dr John, memoirs of his life, Mem. 1. — Undertakes, at the entreaty of fir Robert 
 Namur, to write the hiftory of his own times, 2. — Prefents part of his work to queen 
 Philippa of England, 2. — His early attachment to romance, 3. — Appoin'.ed clerk of the 
 chamber to queen Philippa, 5. — His mode of obtaining materials for his work, 6. — His 
 journey into Scotland, 7. — Loles his patronefs queen Phili|)pa, 8. — His diflipation at 
 Leflines, g. — His papers seized by order of the duke of Anjou, ib. — Vifits the count de 
 Foix, III. 72. — His obituary, 21. — Eflay on his works, 23. — Plan of his hiflory, 24. — The 
 time he employed in writing it, 28. — The pains he took in compofing it, 32. — Remarks on 
 his chronology, 35. — Criticifm on his hillory, 39. — The charge of partiality madeagainft 
 him examined and refuted, ;^. fi seq. — Cautions to be obferved in reading hishiilory, 47. His 
 faults and beauties, 4S, 49. — His charader, by Montagne, 50. — Editions of his chronicles, 
 50. — DiGertation on his poetry, 63. — His paradlfe of love, 64. — His horologe amoureufe, 
 66. — His le dit de la marguerite, 67. — His pallorals, 68. — His londeaus, 68. — Specimens 
 of his poetry, 73 to 78. — His preface to his chronicles, I. I. — His reafons for vi iting the 
 count de Foix, III. 72. — Sets out for Beam, in company with fir Efpaign du Lyon, who 
 informs him of many particulars relative to the wars in Guienne, 86.— Arrives at Orthes, 
 124. — Becomes acquainted with the Baftot de Mauleon, III. 137. — His defcription of the 
 manners of the Engli(h and Gafcons in his time, 208. — Travels to Middleburgh, in Zealand, 
 231. — Receives information relative to the affairs of Portugal, 233. — !s informed of the par- 
 ticulars of the arreftof fir Oliver deCliffon by theduke of Bcittany, 452. — Returns to France 
 
 from Beam, in company with the countefs de Boulogne, IV. 72. — Goes to Holland, 73. 
 
 Returns to Paris to witnefs Queen Ifabella's public entrance into that city, /3. — Vifils Eng- 
 
 3 c 2 land
 
 ,92 INDEX. 
 
 land in the reign of Richard ihe Second, 408. — Prefents his book of love poems to the 
 king, 426. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gabelk, the, a tax upon fah, impofed through France, I. 405. 
 
 Galande, the caiUe of, in Brittany, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 148. 
 
 Garibz, Gomez, beheaded by order of don Pedro, I. 743. 
 
 Gars, theabbedc, beheaded at Amiens, I. 493. 
 
 Gafcons oppofe the attempt of the prince of Wales to impofe a hearth tax on the country, 
 I. 757, 771. — Their manners in the time of Froiffart, HI. 208. 
 
 Geneva, the cardinal of, eleded pope during the life-time of Urban the Sixth, II. 298. 
 
 Genoa, its rtate and condition in the time of Froiffart, III. 2JI. 
 
 Genoefe raife a large army to invade Barbary, IV. 167.— Befiege tlie town of Africa, ao6.— 
 Break up their expedition, 239. 
 
 Gente, fir Guirebert, a citizen of Ghent, killed for having endeavoured to make peace be- 
 tween the town and the earl of Flanders, II. 501- 
 
 Genvllle, the earl of, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 St. George, the chapel of, at Windfor, founded by Edward the Third, I. 245. 
 
 Germany, the emperor of, attends a great affembly at Rheims, with the king of France, to 
 confult upon means to reltore the union of the church, IV. 590. — Depofed, 691. 
 
 Ghent, the town of, beficged by the earl of Flanders, II. 293, 493. 
 
 Ghent, the men of, put to death Jacob von Artaveld, I. 283.— Revive the cuftom of the 
 Whitehoods, and ele£l John Lyon their captain, II. 313.— Apply to the earl of Flanders 
 to preferve their franchifes, 315. — Murder the bailiff of Ghent, 320.. — Endeavour to make 
 their peace with the earl, 323. — Enter into alliance with other towns of Flanders, 329. — 
 Choofe new leaders, after tlje death of John Lyon, 3 ;o. — Enter into alliance with the town 
 of Ypres, 331. — Befiege Oudenarde, 332. — March to attack the car! of Flanders, in Dendre- 
 nionde, 334. — Make peace with the earl, 344. — Take the town of Oudenarde, 350. — Sur- 
 render it to the earl's forces, 35:.— Deftroy the houfes of the nobility, 355. — Put to death 
 John Roule, one of their commanders, 433. — Take feveral towns in Flanders, 437.— De- 
 feated with great ilaughter at Nevile, where feveral hundred of them are burnt in a church, 
 441. — Befiege Courtray, 445. — Greatly diftreffed for provifions, but relieved by the men of 
 Lice, 538. — Defeat the earl of Flanders at Bruges, ^^^. — Take tlie town of Bruges and 
 feveral others, 558, et feq. — Befiege Oudenarde, 569. — Endeavour to form an alliance with 
 England, 581. — Defeated at the pafs of Commines, under Peter du Bois, 6i6. — Defeated 
 under Philip von Artaveld, at the battle of Rofebecque, 637. — Fndeavour to make 
 peace, 652. — Take the town of Ardembourg, 660. — Affifl the Englifh at the fiege of 
 Ypres, 680. — Defeat a party of the French at Ardembourg, 743 — Take Damme, 
 III. ai. — M.ike peace with the duke of Burgundy, the heir of Flanders, III. 54. 
 Cloucejier, the duke of, [for the preceding particulars of this prince fee Buckingham, the 
 
 earl
 
 INDEX, 193 
 
 carl of,] liis creation, III. 341.— Confederates with tlie duke of York and others againft 
 Richard the Second and his council, 461. — Defeats the king's forces, under the duke of 
 Ireland, near Oxford, 492. — Thwarts tlie king in his intentions of making peace with 
 the king of France, IV. 365. — Plots the deftrudVion of the king, 542.— Inlligates the 
 Londoners to petition for a repeal of the war taxes, 547. — Arrefled by order of the king, 
 559. — Put to death at Calais, 584. 
 
 God'tnos, a valiant fquire of Auvergne, killed by a wood-cutter, whom he was leading away 
 prifoner, IV. 38. 
 
 Gomgines, the lord of, defeated and taken prifoner on his way to join the king of England 
 before Rlieims, 1. 730. 
 
 Goodman, James, chofen leader of the infamous Jacquerie of Beauvoifis, I, 473. — His exe- 
 cution, 477, noU. 
 
 Goy la Foict, the caftle of, taken by iir Walter Manny, I. 317. — Surrenders to fir Bertrand 
 du Guefclin, II. 143. 
 
 Gramat, the town of, taken by fir John Chandos, 1. 822. 
 
 Gramntont, the town of, in Flanders, taken by the lord d'Anghein, 11. 494. 
 
 Grave, the town of, befieged by the Brabanters, III. 637. 
 
 Gravelines, the town of, taken by the bifhop of Norwich, II. 657. 
 
 Gravllle, the lord of, beheaded at Rouen, 1. 40^. 
 
 ■ , fir \V. reconquers Evreux from the king of France, I. 464. 
 
 Gregory the Eleventh, pope, elefled at Avignon, II. 74. — Endeavours to make peace between 
 the kings of France and England, 158. — Removes to Rome, 179. — His death, 230. 
 
 Griffith, a Welftinian, commands a troop of the free companies, and pillages feveral places 
 in France, I. 468. 
 
 Gris, James le, killed in a duel at Paris, by fir John de Carogne, III. 346. 
 
 GueUres, the duke of, promifes to affift the king of England againft France, I. 806. — Enters 
 into an alliance with England, III, 432. — Sends an infulting defiance to the king of 
 France, ib. — Endeavours to obtain poflefTion of three caftles belonging to his duchy, 
 which had been fold to the duke of Brabant, 554. — Keeps poffelTion of Grave, 602. — 
 Defeats the Brabanters at the bridge of Raveflein, 638. — Makes peace with the king of 
 France and the duchefs of Brabant, IV. 44. — Taken prifoner in Pruffia,57. — Delivered by 
 the Teutonic knights, 58. — Returns to Pruflia to keep his faith with his capto, and obtains 
 his liberty, ib. 
 
 Guerrande, the town of, taken by the forces of the lord Charles of Elois, I. 213. 
 
 Guefclin, fir Bertrand du, chofen commander of the French forces in Normandy, I. 627. — 
 Defeats the forces of the king of Navarre at the battle of Cocherel, 634. — Obtains 
 poffeflion of the caftle of Roulleboife, 636. — Goes to the afliilance of the lord 
 Charles of Blois, 644. — Taken prifoner at the b.-ittle of Auray, 657. — Ranfomed, 672.— 
 
 Leads
 
 194 INDEX. 
 
 Leads an army into Spain, 674. — Appointed conftaWe of Caftille, 678.— Goes to the 
 afiiftance of Henry of Caftille againll don Pedro and the prince of Wales, 711.— Taken 
 at the battle of Navarete, 737.— Obtains his ranfom, 754— Joins king Henry before 
 Toledo, 762. — Again appointed conftable of Spain, 769. — Joins the du.ve of Anjou in an 
 expedition againft the prince of Wales, H. 47. — Invades the vifcounty of Limoges, 65. 
 — Takes tlie town of Yrier, 66. — Appointed conltahle of France, 6g. — Defeats the forces 
 of fn Robert Knolles at Poiit-valin, 71. — Takes the caille ef Monmorillon and leveral 
 other places in Poitou, iic, et feq. — Heads an army againft Brittany, 141.— Takes the 
 town of Rennes and feveral others, 142, ct ft-q. — Sent with a large army againft the king of 
 Navarre, 185. — Makes war on Brittany, 292. — Dies at Auvergne, 359. — The etymology 
 of his name, 455.— See alfo 457, note. 
 
 Guefdin, fir Oliver du, made prifoncr by the garrifon of Cherbourg, II. 263. 
 
 Guignes, the town of, taken hy the Englifli, F. y^6. 
 
 Gu'iticamp, the town of, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 143. 
 
 Guijlelles, the lord de, appeafes an infurredion at Bruges againft the French troops, III. 337. 
 
 K. 
 
 Hainauh, the country of, invaded by the French, 1. 113, 125. — In danger of being pillaged 
 by the Bretons belonging to the army of Charles the Sixth, of France, II. 649. 
 
 Hainault, fir John of, offers his affiftance to Ifabclla, queen of Edward the Second, I. 13. 
 — Efcorts her to England, 16. — Aflifts her at the fiege of Briftol, 18.— AiTifts the king 
 of England in an expedition againft the Scots, 26. — His territories invaded by the king of 
 France, J13. — Appointed governor of Hainault during the abfence of the earl in Eng- 
 land, lai. — Quits the allegiance of England for that of France, 285. 
 
 Hainault, William earl of, father of Philippa, queen of England, his death, I. 8r. 
 
 Hainault^ William earl of, fon of the above, fends his defiance to the king of France, 
 I. 118. — Takes the town of Aubenton, &c. 1:0. — Vifits England, 120. — Ge many, 134. 
 — Returns to Hainault, 136. — Aflemblcs a large army to raife the fiege of Thin I'Evequc, 
 136.— Burns the towns of Seclin, and Orchies, I. 148, 162, &c. — Takes the town of 
 St. Amand, 160. — Utrucht, 284. — Slain in Friefland, 285. 
 
 Hainault, the count of, raifes an army to invade Friefland, IV. 495. — Overruns the country, 
 and difbands his forces, 506. 
 
 Harcourt, the earl of, beheaded at Rouen, I. 408. 
 
 Harcourt, the young earl of, makes peace with ihe duke of Normandy, I. 511. 
 
 Harcourt, fir Godfrey de, baniflied from France, 1. 278. — Accompanies tlie king of England 
 
 in an expedition into Normandy, 299. — Created one of the marflials of his army, 300. 
 
 Defeats a body of men from Amiens on their march to join the king of France, 309. 
 
 Carries
 
 INDEX. 195 
 
 Carries on the war in Normandy for the king of England, 454. — Defeated and flain at 
 
 the battle of Coutantin, 457. 
 Harcourt, fir John^ returns to France from England, where he had been as holbge for king 
 
 John, I. 78J. 
 Harlefiene, fir William, appointed governor of Cherbourg, II. 190. — Defeats a body of 
 
 French troops under fir William de Bourdes, when he captures^ 192. 
 Harjley, William de, a phyfician of France, cures king Charles the Sixth of France of his 
 
 firft derangement, IV. 367. — Dies at Laon, 368. 
 Harzellc, Raffe de, chofen one of the commanders of the Whitehoods of Ghent, II. 330. 
 
 — Takes feveral towns in Flanders, 430, et fcq. — Killed in an engagement with the earl 
 
 of Flanders, 441. 
 Hafpres, the town of, burnt by the French, I. 116. 
 Hawkwood, fir John, an Engliili commander, enters into the fervice of Urban the Sixth in 
 
 Italy, II. 306. 
 Hel/y, fir James de, taken prifoner by the Turks at the battle of Nicopoli, IV. 519. — Sent to 
 
 France with information of the defeat of the army of John of Burgundy, 524. — Obtains 
 
 his liberty, 533. — Returns to France, 543. 
 Hemiebon, the town of, in Brittany, taken by the earl of Montford, as duke of Brittany, 
 
 I. 177. — Befieged by the lord Charles of Blois, 204. — Taken by fir Bertiand du Guef- 
 
 clin, II. 144. 
 Henry the Fourth, of England, crowned during the life-time of Richard the Second, 
 
 IV. 668. 
 Henry de Traftamare, enters CafliUe with a large army to dethrone his brother don Pedro, 
 
 I. 674. — Acknowledged and crowned king of CaftiUe by the Spaniards, 677. — Takes 
 
 meafures to oppofe don Pedro and tlie prince of Wales, 691. — Defeated at the battle of 
 
 Navarete, 728. — Efcapes to Arragon, 736. — Makes war on the prince of Wales in 
 
 Aquitaine, 745. — Makes war on don Pedro, affified by the king of Arragon, 759. — 
 
 Defeats don Pedro near Montiel, 765. — Puts him to death, 768. — Obtains the fubmiffion 
 
 of CaftiUe, 769. — Enters into alliance with the king of France, II. 95.^Makes war on 
 
 the king of Navarre, 186. — Concludes a peace with him, 276. — His death, 277. 
 Henry, the infant of Spain, marries the daughter of the duke of Lancafter, III. 619. — 
 
 Crowned king of Caftille, 250. 
 Herielle, the caftle of, taken bv the king of Navarre, I. 487.. 
 Holland, fir John, kills lord Ralph Stafford, III. 39. 
 Hojlages, fent to England for king John of France, I. 573. 
 Huet, fir Walter, killed in a (kirmifli in Brittany, II. 155. 
 
 Hungary, the king of, applies to the court of France, for afllftance againft the fultan Ba- 
 
 jazct,
 
 196 INDEX. 
 
 jazet, IV. 458. — Crofles the Danube with a large army, accompanied by John of Bur- 
 gundy and his forces, 474. — Takes the town of Come£le by florm, 476. — Befieges 
 Nicopoli, 477. — His army defeated by Bajazet, 518. 
 Huntingdon, the earl of, proclaims a tournament at Oxford with the view of murdering king 
 Henry IV. IV. 683.— Slain at Circnceftcr, 68j. 
 
 T. 
 
 St. laga de Compojiella, the town of, in Galicia, taken by the duke of Lancafter, III. 277. 
 
 5/. Inglevere, tournament held there by three French knights againll all comers, IV. 107. 
 
 Innocent the Sixth, pope, eledted at Avignon, I. 397. — Endeavours to make peace between 
 the kings of France and England, and the kings of France and Navarre, 416. — Orders a 
 croifade to be preached ag.iinfl the free companies, 588. — His death, 594. 
 
 Infwrenion in Paris againd Charles the Sixth, II. 502. 
 
 at Rouen, II. 504. 
 
 -, general, in England, in favour of the earl of Derby againft Richard the Second, 
 IV. 636. 
 
 Interview between tlie king of Portugal and the duke of Lancafler, HI. 540. 
 -- between the kings of France and England at Ardies, IV. 511. 
 
 Ireland, the earl of Oxford created duke of. 111. 347. — Incurs the hatred of the people of 
 England, 409. — Obtains a divorce from his wife, the lady Philippa, 412. — ^Endeavours to 
 counteraft the meafures of the commiflioners of accounts and the new council of ftate, 
 ^yo. — Marches from Briflol towards London as lieutenant for the kmg, 481. — Defeated 
 near Oxford by the Londoners, under the duke of Gloucefler, 492. — Flies the kingdom, 
 493. — Invited to France, 596. — Ordered thence, IV. 03. 
 
 Iri/h, their manners and mode of warfare, IV. 427. 
 
 Ifabella, queen of Edward the Second, declared ineligible to the crown of France, I. 6.— 
 Incurs the hatred of fir Hugh Spencer, 7. — Lays her grievances before her brother, Charles 
 the Fourth of France, and folicits his advice and aififlance, 9. — Commanded to quit 
 France, 12. — Lands in England with a confiderable force, and is joined by the Englifti 
 barons, 17. — Takes her hufband prifoner at Brirtol, 21. — Confines him in Berkeley caltle, 
 
 31. Enters London amidft great rejoicings, 22. — Obtains the coronation of her fon 
 
 Edward the Third, 24. — Sufpeded of being pregnant by fir Roger Mortimer, 56. — Com- 
 mitted to prifon by order of the council, 56. — Dies in London, 596. 
 Ifabella, daughter of Edward the Third of England, betrothed to Lewis earl of Flanders, 
 
 I-35I- 
 Ifabella, the lady, of Bavaria, married to Charles the Sixth of France, III. 23. — Makes her 
 
 public entry into Paris, IV. 75. 
 
 Ifabella,
 
 INDEX. 197 
 
 Ifabdla, daughter of Charles the Sixth, betrothed to Richard tlie Second of England, 
 IV. 467. — Delivered to him by king Charles at Ardres, 511. — Married to him at 
 Calais, 512. 
 
 'Jacquerie, the rife of an infamous body of men in Beauvoifis under this appellation, I. 472. 
 — Their atrocities, 473. — A large number of them deftroyed by tlie king of Navarre, 
 474. — Thoufands of them flain at Meaux by the earl of Foix and the captal of Buch,476. 
 
 fames, king of Cyprus, interefls himfelf to obtain the liberation of John of Burgundy and 
 his companions, who were prifoners in Turkey, H'^. 561. 
 
 St. Jean d" Angcly, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 395. — Surrenders to the 
 French, II. 122. 
 
 Jews, perfecuted througli Europe, I. 392. 
 
 yohn, fon of Philip of Valois, crowned king of France, I. 394. — Makes his public entry 
 into Paris, lb. — Prevents a combat between the duke of Lancafter and the duke of 
 Erunfwick, 397. — Takes pofTeffion of the lands of the king of Navarre in Normandy, 401. 
 — Coins florins of gold, which were called larnb Jlor'ins, 403. — Marches an army againfl 
 the king of England, 404. — Gives tlie duchy of Normandy to his eldefl fon, the dauphin 
 of Vienne, 405. — Arrefts the king of Navarre, 407. — Marches an army againft the duke 
 of Lancafler, 409. — ColleiSls an army to oppofe the prince of Wales, 410. — Defeated 
 and taken prifoner at the battle of Poitiers, 437. — Surrenders to the prince of Wales, 442. 
 — Embarked for England, 459. — Rides through London, 460. — Confined in Windfor 
 caflle, ih. — Enters into a treaty with the king of England and the prince of Wales, 519. 
 — The French council refufe to ratify it, 519. — Sent to the Tower of London, 528. — 
 Obtains his liberty, and returns to France, $(>^. — Magnificently entertained at Paris, 575. 
 — Quarrels with the king of Navarre, 593. — Vifits the pope at Avignon, ih. — Puts on 
 the crofs, 599. — Returns to England, 609. — His death, 613. — Buried at St. Denis, 619. 
 — See alfo 620, note. 
 
 John, don, fon of Henry de Traflamare, crowned king of Callille, II. 277. — Makes war 
 on Portugal, 454. — Takes the held againfl the king of Portugal and t'le earl of Cam- 
 bridge, ^y'- — ^I^kes peace with the king of Portugal, 5^4. — Marries his daughter, 537. 
 — Sends his defiance to the new king of Portugal, and raifes an army to make war on 
 him. III. 79, 246. — Befieges Lifbon, 79, 247. — Applies to the king of France for 
 affiflance, 81. — Abandons the liege of Lifbon, 159. — Takes the field againil the king of 
 Portugal, 167. — Defeated with great {laughter, at the battle of Aljubarota, 178. — Enters 
 into a truce with the king of Portugal, 187. — Applies to France tor affillance againlt the 
 king of Portugal and the duke of Lancafter, 296. — Grants permiflion to the duke of Lan- 
 
 2 D cafler,
 
 198 INDEX. 
 
 carter to fend his men into Caftille to recruit their health, 511. — Regains pofleflion of 
 Galicia after the departure of the duke of -Lancafter, 592. — Sends ambafladors to the duke 
 of Lancafter, to demand his daughter for the infanta of Spain, 617. — Makes peace 
 with the duke, 649. — Marries his fon to the lady Catherine of Lancafter, IV. 70. — His 
 death, 250. 
 
 "John, don, the ballard, grand mafter of the order of Avis, declared king of Portugal, II. 537. 
 III. 77, 229. — Sends ambafladors to England to folicit the alliance of Richard the Second, 
 153. — Raifes an army to make war on the king of Caftille, 156. — Defeats him at the 
 battle of Aljubarota, 178. — Enters into a truce with him, 187. — Sends ambafladors to 
 fi)licit the afliflance of the duke of Lancafter, 234. — Receives favourable anfwers, 265. 
 — Writes friendlv letters to the duke of Lancafter on his arrival in Galicia, 295. — Has 
 an interview with him, 308. — Marries the lady Philippa, daughter of the duke of Lan- 
 c.ifter, 377. — Takes tlie field agalnft the king of Caftille, 442. — Burns the town of 
 Santaren, 444. — Takes Ferrol, 447. — Forms a jun6lion with the duke of Lancafter at 
 Orenfe, 502.— Difmifles his army, 516. 
 
 'John of Gaunt, earl of Richmond, created duke of Lancafter, I. 596. 
 
 John, friar, de la Rochtaillade, delivers an apologue before the cardinals concerning the 
 papacy. III. 227. 
 
 Joigny, the earl of, captured by the prince of Wales, I. 418. — Taken prifoner at the battle 
 of Auray, 657. 
 
 Joigny, the lord Raoul de, taken prifoner by the prince of Wales, I. 418. 
 
 Joinvilk, the fort of, taken by the free-booting companies, I. 578. 
 
 Jouel, fir John, joins the king of Navarre, I. 617. — Slain at the battle of Cocherel in 
 Normandy, 634. 
 
 Jouy, the count de, burnt to death at a mafl^ed dance at Paris, IV. 375. 
 
 Jugon, the town of, taken by the lord Charles of Blois through treachery, I. 224. — Retaken 
 by the lord John de Montford, 663. — Surrenders to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 142. 
 
 St. Julicn, Louis de, takes the town of Chatelheraut, II. 37. 
 
 Juliers, the duke of, promifes afliftance to the king of England againft France, I. 807. — 
 Defeats the duke of Brabant with great fiaughter, III. 541. — Makes his peace with the em- 
 peror, 550. — Makes his fubmiflion to the king of France, IV. 32. — Makes peace between 
 the duke of Gueldres and the king of France 43. 
 
 Julias, William count de, made duke of Gueldres, III. 542. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kent, the earl of, beheaded through the jealoufy of fir Robert Mortimer, I. 55. 
 Knights Bachelors, the fignlfication of their title, I. 164, note. 
 
 Knights
 
 INDEX. 199 
 
 Knights Bamtei-cts, an account of their title and rank, I, 4.6, note. 
 
 Knights of the Garter, the order inflituted at Windfor by Edward the Third, I. 345. — The 
 names of the tirft knights, ib. note. 
 
 Knights of the Hare, the origin of their title, I. 109. 
 
 Knights of the Star, the firft of that order, I. 395. 
 
 Knolles, fir Robert, commands a troop of tlie free companies in Normandy, I. 469. — Makes 
 an incurfion into Berry and Auvergne, 523. — Goes to the afllftance of the prince of 
 Wales, 815. — Appointed captain of the prince of Wales's companies, 816. — Summoned 
 to England by king Edward, II. 43. — Leads an army into Picardy, 53. — Enters into a 
 compofition to fave the country from being pillaged, 55. — Defeated at Pont Valin by fir 
 Bertrand du Guefclin, 71. — Retreats into Brittany, 73. — Some account of his life, 8g, 
 note. — Incurs the difpleafure of the king of England, 90. — Reinftated in his favour, lb. — 
 Appointed governor of Brittany, 143. — Captures the lord dc Mauvoifin, II. 389. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lac Le, the town or, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 256. 
 
 Lacy, fir Stephen, made prifoner at Athenis, in France, I. 289. 
 
 Lamb florins, firft: coined, I. 402. 
 
 Lambe, John, affalTinates Evan of Wales at Mortmain-fur- mer, IT. 249. 
 
 Lancafler, Thomas, earl of, beheaded through the enmity of fir Hugh Spencer, I. 7. 
 
 Lancaficr, Henry, earl of, brother of the former, joins the parly of queen Ifabelia againft 
 Edward the Second and the Spencers, I. 18. 
 
 Lancafler, the duke of, fon of earl Henry, lands in Coutantin to affift Philip of Navarre 
 againft the king of France, I. 409. — Takes the town of Vcrneuil, ib. — Befieges 
 Rennes, 462. — Leads a large army into Picardy, 526 — Peifuades the king of England to 
 make peace with the duke of Normandy, 557. — Dies of the plague, 592, and note, 
 
 Lancafler, John of Gaunt, duke of, his creation, I. 596. — Embarks with a large army for 
 Aquitaine, 707. — Leads a large army into France, 831. — Returns to England, If. 162. — 
 Embarks witli a large force for Aquitaine, 48. — Appointed governor of Aquitaine, 78. 
 — Takes Mont Paon, 81. — Marries the lady Conftance, daughter of don Pedro of Caf- 
 tille, 94. — Returns to England, 96.— Leads an army through France to Bourdeaux, 
 150, et feq. — Enters into a truce with the Frejicli, and returns to England, 176. — Made 
 regent of England, during the minority of Richard the Second, i8c. — Heads an army 
 into Brittany, 188. — Befieges St. Malo, ib. 246. — Abandons the fiege, 260. — Informed 
 of the death of don Henry, king of CalHlle, 282. — Sent to treat with the Scots, 457.— 
 
 2 D 2 Makes
 
 300 INDEX. 
 
 Makes a truce with them, 481. — Refuled admiffion into Berwick Caftle, ih. — Returns 
 to Scotland with the earl of Douglas, 483. — Sent for by king Richard, 486. — Offended 
 with the earl of Northumberland, 488. — Appeafed by the king, 489. — Obtains an army 
 to make war on Caftille, III. 265. — Embarks for Portugal, 366. — Forces the French to raife 
 the blockade of Breft, 271. — Arrives at Corunna, 274. — Takes the town of St. lago de 
 Compoftella and feveral others in Galicia, 377, et feq.—MTxkes war on Arragon, 349. — 
 Marries his daughter, the lady Philippa, to the king of Portugal, 378. — Takes the towns 
 of Entencja, 384, et fcq. — Suffers greatly from the heat of the climate, 500. — Forms a 
 jundion with the king of Portugal, 503. — Paffes the Douro, 503. — Difpirited by the 
 ficknefs of himfelf and army, 507. — Difbands his men, 509. — Obtains permiiflon from 
 the king of Caftille for them to recruit their health in his towns, 511. — Quits Galicia 
 and returns to Bayonne, 539. — Applies to England for frefli affiftance, 593. — Betroths his 
 daughter Catharine to the infanta of Spain, 619.— Makes peace with the king of Caf- 
 tille, 649. — Marries his daughter the lady Catharine to the infanta, IV. 66. — Receives the 
 duchy of Aquitaine as a gift from king Richard and his council, IV. 404. — Embarks for 
 Aquitaine, 406. — Ordered to return in confequence of the remonftrances of the towns of 
 Aquitaine againft theking's gift, 435. — Marries his concubine, Catharine Swineford, 473. 
 — Offended with king Richard for the murder of the duke of Gloucefter, 587. — Makes 
 peace with him, 588. — His death, 634. 
 
 Landas, the lord of, {lain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Longon, the town of, takrn by the earl of Derby, I. 256.— Surrenders to the duke of 
 Anjou, II. 165. 
 
 Langurant, the lord de, captured by the duke of Anjou, II. 200. — Turns to the French in- 
 tereft, 303. — Mortally wounded at C.idiilac, 380. 
 
 Launoy, John de, one of the commanders of the men of Ghent, flaiu at the church of 
 Nivele, II. 442. 
 
 Lauion, fir John, flain before La Rochelle, II. 104. 
 
 Le Clerc, Arnoul, one of the commanders of the men of Ghent, defeats a party of the 
 Flemirti nobility at Oudenarde, II. 446. — Defeated and flain at Bercham, 448. 
 
 Leon, king of Armenia, arrives in France, after lofing his dominions. III. 210. — Relieved 
 by the king of France, 222. — His death, 223, «o/f. —Endeavours to negociate a peace 
 between the kings of France and England, 331. 
 
 Leon, i'n Herve de, captured before Vannes, I. 238. — Liberated by king Edwaid, 246. — 
 Dies at Paris, 248; 
 
 Letter, from Edward the Black Prince to the bifhop of Worcefter, after the battle of 
 Poitiers, I. 449, note. 
 
 Letter, fent by the king of England to Aquitaine, II. 35. 
 
 Lewis,
 
 INDEX. 201 
 
 Lewis, the lord, of Spain, raifes the fiege of Hennebon, I. 211. — Takes the town of 
 Dinant, 211. — Defeated at Quimperle by fir Walter Manny, I. 216. — Engages lord 
 Robert d'Artols at Tea, 229. 
 
 Libourne, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 260. 
 
 Liege, the bifliop of, endeavours to make peace between the earl of Flanders and the bifliop 
 of Norwich, II. 682. 
 
 Lieux, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I, 256. 
 
 Lignac, fir Helion de, fent to treat with the duke of Lancafter for the marriage of his daugh- 
 ter to the duke of Berry, III. 614. 
 
 Lignac, fa- William f'e, fenefchal of Saintonge, takes the caflle of Aigle, III. 4. — Accom- 
 panies the duke of Bourbon to the affiltance of the king of Caftille, 364. — Arrives at 
 Burgos, 399. 
 
 Limoges, the town of, furrenders to the duke of Berry, II. 61. — Taken by ftorni by the 
 prince of Wales, 68. 
 
 Linde, the town of, befieged by the duke of Anjou, II. 50. — Delivered by the captal of 
 Buch, 51. 
 
 Linlercs, fir Maubrun de, dies at Noya, III. 516. 
 
 Lionel, earl of Ulfter, created duke of Clarence, I. 596. — Marries the daughter of the lord 
 Gaieas of Milan, 754. — His death, 770. 
 
 Llfbon, the city of, befieged by tlie king of Caftille, I [I. 159. 
 
 Lljle, the earl of, makes war in Gaicony for the king of France, I. 149. — Re-captures Aqui ■ 
 taine, lb. — Befieges Aubtjroche, 260. — Taken prifoner by the earl of Derbv, 262. 
 
 St. Lo, the town of, taken by the Englifli under king Edward, I. 304. 
 
 London, the bifliop of, appointed to accompany the duke of Lancafter in an expedition againft 
 Spain, II. 664. 
 
 Londoners, the, diffatisfied with king Richaid and his council, apply to tlie duke of Gloucefter 
 to take upon him the government of the realm. III. 465. — Wait upon the king at Windfor 
 to lav their grievances before him, and to demand redrefs, 467. — Prevail upon the kino to 
 fix a day to examine into tlie conduct ot thofe wholiad had the management of the finances, 
 469. — Defeat the duke of Ireland and the king's forces, near Oxford, 494. — 'Wait 
 upon the king, at the iiifligation of the duke of Gloucefler, to demand the repeal of the 
 taxes which had been itnpofed to carry on the war with France, 55 1. — Take part with the 
 eail of Derby in his quarrel with the earl marfhal, 599. — Rife in favour of the earl of 
 Derby againft Richard the Second, 637. — Send the archbifhhop of Canterbury to France 
 to bring back the earl of Derby, 640. 
 
 Lougueval, llr William de, takes the caflle of Mont Paon, II. 79.-- Surrenders it to the duke 
 of Lancafter, 8j. 
 
 Lorraine, the duke of, flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 Lorrh,
 
 aoa I N D E X. 
 
 Lorris, fir Lancelot de, mortally wounded at Cherbourg, II. 293. 
 
 Louis, de Valois, marries, by procuration, Margaret of Hungary, III. 15. 
 
 Lourde, the caftle of, belieged by the duke of Anjou, III. XI2. 
 
 , the garrifon of, take feveral places in France, III. 86, et feq. 
 
 Louvaine, fir Nicholas, governor of Abbville, taken prifoner by fir Hugh de Chatillon, 
 
 I- 793- 
 Louvkr, the town of, taken by the Enghfh under Edward the Third, I. 310. 
 
 Luna, the cardinal de, eledcd pope at Avignon, under the title of Benedid, IV. 399. 
 
 Lufignan, the town of, in Poitou, burnt by the earl of Derby, I. 337. — Surrenders to fir 
 Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 137. 
 
 Lufignan, king of Cyprus, arrives at Avignon, I. 598.— Vifits Germany to exhort the em- 
 peror to join tlie crufade againd the Saracens, 6co. — Vifits the king of Navarre, 603. — 
 Endeavours to prevail on the king of England to put on the crofs, 601;. — Goes to Aquitaine 
 to folicit the prince of Wales to do the fame, 607. — Returns to Paris, 624. — Affafli- 
 nated by his brother. III. 212. 
 
 Luffac, the town and caftle of, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 1 10. 
 
 Luxembourg, fir Peter de, his body faid to Ihew miraculous powers. III. 559. 
 
 Luzumont, the caftle of, in Brittany, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 142. 
 
 Lyon, John, a citizen of Ghent, revives the cuftoms of the Whitehoods, II. 313. — In- 
 ftigates the men of Ghent to demand of the earl of Flanders the prefervation of their 
 franchifes, 315. — Burns and pillages the caftle of Andreghein, belonging to the earl, 324. 
 ■ — Dies at Ardembourg, 329. 
 
 Lyon, fir Efjuing du, accompanies Froiflart to Beam, and relates to him many particulars 
 relative to the wars in Guienne, &c. III. 86. 
 
 M. 
 
 St. Alahe, the town of, in Brittany, furrenders to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 143. 
 
 Maillart, John, a citizen of Paris, pre\ents the city being betrayed by the provoft of mer- 
 chants, I. 483. 
 
 Alajorca, James king of, applies to the prince of Wales for his afliftance againft the king 
 of Arragon, I. 703. — Accompanies the prince and don Pedro into Spain, 713. — Taken 
 prifoner at Valladolid, by king Henry of Caftille, 760. — Ranfomed by his wife, the queen 
 of Naples, II. 92. — Makes war on the king of Arragon, 93. — Dies at Val di Soria, ib. 
 
 St. Alaixant, the town of, in Poitou, taken by the duke of Berry, II. 125. 
 
 Malcval, the lord de, turns to the French intereft, II. 34. 
 
 St. Malo, the town of, furrenders to fir Bertrand du Gucfchn, II. J42. — BefiegeJ by the 
 duke of Lancafter, 246. 
 
 Ma 'voifin.
 
 INDEX. ao3 
 
 Alalvt-ifin^ the caftle of, taken by the duke of Anjou, III. lOO. 
 
 Manaarant, the caftle of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 256. 
 
 Manners of the Englifli and Gafcons in the time of Froiflart, III. 3c8. 
 
 Manny, fir Giles, killed before Cambray, I. 1 15. 
 
 Manny, fir Walter, makes an incurfion into France, I. 93. — Sent with an Englifh force 
 into Brittany, to the afliftance of the countefs of Montford, 203. — Arrives at Henncbon, 
 209. — Retakes the caftle of Conquet, 213. — Defeats the lord Lewis of Spain, at Quim- 
 perle, 216. — Takes the caftle of Goy la Foret, 217. — Accompanies the earl of Derby into 
 Gafcony, 262. — Finds the fepulchre of his father at La Reole, 271. — Defeats the French 
 \ander fir Geoffrey de Chargny, before Calais, 379. — Dies in London, 11. 96. 
 
 Manny, fir Courageous de, left for dead at the battle of Nogent fur Seine, but recovers, 
 
 I.5>5. 
 
 Mante, the town of, taken by the French under the lord de Boucicaut, I. 616. 
 
 Marans, the town of, in the Rochellois, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 127. 
 
 Marcel, Aimerigot, takes the caftle of Caffuriel, and other places, in Auvergne, If. 295, 
 et feq. — Takes by furprife the caftle of Marquel, 701. — Fortifies himfelf in La Roche 
 Vandais, IV. 178. — Befieged by the vifcount de Meaux, 181.— Sends to England to folicit 
 the duke of Lancafter for afliftance, 185. — During his abfence at Perigord, his fort fur- 
 renders, 199. — Betrayed by a relative, to whom he had applied for an afylum, 202. — 
 Beheaded at Paris, 205. 
 
 Marcel, Etienne, provoft of the merchants of Paris, kills three knights in the apartment of 
 the regent, [. 469. — Builds a wall round Paris, 475. — Killed by John Maillart while at- 
 tempting to betray the citv to 'he Engliih and Navarrois, 488. 
 
 March, the earl of, taken prifoner by the Englifli at the battle of Nevll's Crofs, I. 346. 
 
 Marchiennei, the monaftery of, taken by the Hainaultcrs, I. 162. 
 
 Marchvilk, the caftle of, taken by the duke of Burgundy, I. 639. 
 
 Maret, John de, unjuftly executed at Paris, II. 658. 
 
 Margaret, countefs of Hainault, takes poffelfion of that country, as her inheritance, after 
 the death of Earl William, I. 285. 
 
 Margaret, of Hungary, married by procuration to Louis de Valois, III. 15. — Forcibly 
 married bv Henry de Blancquefort, brother of the emperor of Germany, 31. 
 
 AlarncU, fir Raymond de, turns to the French intereft, II. 34. — Taken prifoner by t!ie 
 Englidi, 76 — ?v1akes his cfcape, 77. 
 
 Marquel, the cnftle of, in Auvergne, taken by Aimerigot Marcel, II. 701. 
 
 Marriage, concluded between the children of Burgundy and thofe of Hainault, II. 738. 
 
 Marjhal, the tail, of England, challenges the earl of Derby in the prefencc of king 
 Richard, IV. 595. — Banllhed the kingdom, 603. — Dies at Venice, 691. 
 
 ^t.
 
 ao4 INDEX. 
 
 St. ATaubert, ihe fort of, taken by the Englifh under the lord Neville, II. 257. 
 
 Alaubue, the lord, beheaded at Rouen, I. 408. 
 
 Mauconfeil, the caftle of, taken by the king of Navarre, I. 487. — Befieged by the duke of 
 
 Normandy, 489. — Razed to the ground, 517. 
 Maudurant, Geronnet de, captured by fir John de Bonnelance, III. 568. — Taken to Mont- 
 'ferrante, 570 — Ranfomed, 573. — Gains pofleflion of the town of Montferrante for Peter 
 le Bearnois, 580. 
 Mauleon, le Ballot de, relates his adventures to Froiffart, at Orthes, III. 137. 
 'Mauny, fir Oliver de, makes the king of Navarre prifoner, I. 716. 
 
 St. Alaw, the abbey of, on the Loire, taken by the Englifh under the earl of Pembroke, 
 • II. 20. 
 
 Mauvoufin, lord de, captured by fir Robert Knolles, II. 389. 
 Maxwell, fir John, captures fir Ralph Percy at the battle of Otterbourn, IV. 15. 
 St. Macairc, the town of, furrenders to the duke of Anjou, II. 207. 
 Mclrofe, the abbey of, deflroyed by Richard the Second, III. 42. 
 Melun, the town of, on the Seine, befieged by the duke of Normandy, I. 509. — The fiegc 
 
 raifed, 511. 
 Melval, lord Louis de, taken prifoner at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 Aicnjlrcworth, fir John, with his followers, quits the army of fir Robert Knolles, II. 71. — 
 
 Executed in London, 91. 
 Mercier., fir John Ic, one of the minifters of Charles the Sixth of Fiance, committed to 
 prifon during the regency of the duke of Burgundy, IV. 355.— His property con- 
 fifcated, 360. — Releafed from prifon, 448. 
 Aiefclin, the little, captain of fome free companies, put to death at Luxembourg, III. 544. 
 Meulon, the town of, taken by the French under the lord de Boucicaut, I. 616. 
 Milhaudi the caftle of, in Rouerge, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 88. 
 Mirabeau, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I 337. 
 Miraculous appearances, faid to have been feen by the Saracens during the fiege of Africa, 
 
 IV. 2lS. 
 Miraumont, the caftle of, taken by the duke of Normandy, I. 287. 
 Mirepoix, the lord of, flain before Bergerac, I. 252. 
 MonifTac, the town of, in Quercy, taken by the Englifli under fir John Chandos, I. 820. — 
 
 Surrenders to the duke of Anjou, II. 48. 
 Moncontour, the caftle of, taken by the Englifli, II. 85. — Retaken by fir Bertrand du Guef 
 
 clin, II. 113. 
 Monmorlllon, the caftle of, in Poitou, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 1 11. 
 Monfac, the to v.- n of, taken by the duke of Anjou, II. 164. 
 
 Mon/lier,
 
 INDEX. ^°5 
 
 Monjller, lord Peter dc, appointed chief of tl>c crufade againfl the free companies in France, 
 
 I. 588. 
 Moniacute, fir William, created earl of Salifbury, I. 70. 
 Monia^ru, lord W.lliam de, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435- 
 Montaubon, battle of, between Hr Guy d'Afai and the free companies, I. 701. 
 A/.«iWwr/, the earl of, invades the duchy of Burgundy, I. 61 1. 
 Monuontouu the caftle of, in Poitou, taken by the EnghH. under lord Ihomas Percy, 
 
 Mo'nubo'urg, the town of, burnt and pillaged by the EngUn. under king Edward the Third, 
 
 I- 301- 
 
 Montendrc, the lord of, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 43«- 
 
 Montfcrrant, the town of, taken by ftratagem by Perrot le Bearno.s, III. 580. 
 
 Montfcrrant, the marquis de, leads the free companies into Lombardy, I. 589-C.onquers 
 fcveral places from the lord of Milan, 590. 
 
 AUntfort, the earl of, takes meafures to fecure to himfelf the duchy of Br.tanny, after the 
 death of his brother, I. ly^.-Takes the town of Breft and feveral others, >74,ctfeq- 
 Does homage to the king of England for the duchy of Brittanny, i8o.-Summoned before 
 the parliament of Paris, at the fuit of the lord Charles of Blois, rSi.-Befieges the caftle of 
 Nantes, iSy.-Cnptured by the French, i88.-Dies m the Louvre at Pans, .i.-[See 
 this account correded, 1%^, note.'] .„, . r u » ..- 
 
 Montfon, the countefs de, carries on the war againfl the lord Charles of Blo.s af- the cap 
 ofier hofhand, I. .Sg-Solicits affiftance from ^^^^'^^'^r^l'^'^fX^,^' 
 Charles of Blois in Hennibon. .04.-Difplays great courage m the ^f "" ^ j^^j;;:; 
 .0. -Enters into a truce with the lord Charles of Blo.s, and goes to Lnglan , .25. 
 Returns to Brittany with reinforcements, under f.r Robert d'Artois, aap.-Her forces take 
 the lord Charles of Blois prifoner at La Roche d'Err.en, 358. 
 mIjo., the lord John de, defeats the forces of the lord Charles o B o,s at the batt e of 
 AurV I. 65-.-nis behaviour on feeing the body of his adverfary, whohadbeen l^am m the 
 bau'e 66ol-Ta.es Auray and other places, 663, et feq.-Makes peace w.th the k.ng o 
 Fra;ce,andisacknowledgeddukeofBrittany, 667.-Marries the daughter of the prmcefs^^ 
 
 Wales 668.-Applies to England for affiftance againft the king of France, 1. 133-Retakes 
 fev ral' places m Brittany, xyo.-Befreges Q.n.,.rV; ^^..-Difbands h,s arn,y and re- 
 res to England, .73-Returns to Brittany, 34— Solicits kmg R-cha.d for fuccour 
 Z -Excufes himfelf to the earl of Buckingham, who had come to h.s affdUnce, for no 
 n eetin. him on his march, 393-Makes peace with the king of France 4--A.reas f, 
 S We. de ClilTon in the caftle of Ermine, and caufes the expedition aga.nft England to be 
 71 up. III. 4i8.-Liberatesnr Ohver,4-.-Kequiredby the kn,g of France toexp am 
 'rcondua towards the conftable, and to deliver up to him the caftle he had taken fro«, h.m 
 
 2 E
 
 2o6 INDEX. 
 
 as his ranfom, 457. — His anfwer, 459. — Difregards the overtures made by the duke of 
 Berrv to gain him ovt: to the French intereft,5f)i. — Enters into an alliance with England, 
 rgy. — Witli Navarre, 600. — Reftores the caftles of fir Oliver de Cliffon, 6 1 a. — Goes to 
 Paris at the entreaty of the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, 633. — Makes his peace with the 
 king of France, 625. — Returns to Brittany, 647. — Meets the king of France at Tours to 
 make an amicable fetllement of the differences exlfting between them, IV. 287. — Agrees to 
 marry his fon to the daughter of the king of France and his daughter to John of Brittany, 
 2gg.-. Grants an afylum to fir Peter de Craon after his attempt to murder fir Oliver de 
 Cliflbn, 328. — Involves himfelfin a war with the king of France, 330. — Wages a de- 
 flructive war againft fir Oliver de Cliflbn, 384. — Makes peace with him, 450. — Grants 
 affiftance to the earl of Derby to embark for England, 645. — His death, 687. 
 
 Montgis, the caftle of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 256. 
 
 Montkl, the battle of, I. 765. 
 
 Montlieu, the caflle of, taken by the duke of Bourbon, III. 6. 
 
 Montmorency, lord of, taken prifoner at "Pont a Treflin, I. 166. 
 
 Aiont'-paon, the calUe of, furrenders to the French under fir William de Longueval, II. 79. 
 — Retaken by the duke of Lancafler, 82. 
 
 Montpcllier, the towns and lordlhips of, belonging to the king of Navarre, feized by the 
 French, II. 236. 
 
 Montpezat, the village of, taken by the duke of Anjou, II. 48. 
 
 Montphi, the fort of, taken by fir Thomas Trivet, II. 268. 
 
 MontpouUlant, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 275. 
 
 Montreuil Bonhi, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 338. 
 
 Moniscgur, the village of, furtendei^s to the earl of Derby, I. 269. — Taken by the duke of 
 Anjou, II. 206. 
 
 Moray, Randolph, earl of, his death, I. 50. 
 
 Moray, the earl of, taken prifoner by the Englifti before Newcaftle upon Tyne, I. 195.— 
 Exchanged for the earl of Salifbury, 302. 
 
 Morbeque, Denys de, captures king John at the battle of Poitiers, I. 442. 
 
 Moron, caflie, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 275. 
 
 Mortatn, the town of, in Normandy, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. i86, 
 
 Aiortdin stir Mer, the town of, in Poitou, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 337. — Befieged by 
 Evan of Wales, 247.— The fiege raifed by the Englifli, 255. 
 
 Mortener, the caftle of, furrenders to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 138. 
 
 Mortimer, fir Roger, ignominioufly put to death, I. 56. 
 
 Mouton, a French coin so called, the origin of its appellation, I. 454, note. 
 
 Mucident, the lord of, killed before Chargny in Dormois, I. 540. 
 
 Mucidcnt, the lord of, taken prifoner by the duke of Anjou, II. 2C0. — Turns to the French 
 intereft, 203. — Returns to the Englifli party, 278. — Slain, 540. 
 
 Miiros,
 
 INDEX. 207 
 
 Muios, the town of, in Galicia, furrenders to the Duke of Lancafter, Ifl. 373. 
 Murray, the earl of, captured by the Enghlh at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, I. 346. 
 Musgrave, fir Thomas, defeated and captured by the Scots at Melrofe, II. 226. 
 
 N. 
 
 Najara, the town of, taken by the Prince of Wales, I. 739. 
 
 Namur, fir Philip de, flain at Dendremonde, II. 437. 
 
 Namur, lord Robert de, does homage to the king of England before Calais, I. 355. — Promifes 
 to aflifi: him againft France, 831. — Joins the Englifh forces, under the duke of Lancafter, 
 before Tournehem, II. 2. — Defeats a party of the French in a fkirmifli, 16. 
 
 Namur, fir William de, gives the town of Sluys to the duke of Burgundy, in exchange for 
 the country of Bethune, Til. 26^ 
 
 Nantes, the town of, taken by the lord Charles of Blois, I. 185. — Befieged by Edward the 
 third, 236. — Surrenders to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 146. — Befieged by the earl of 
 Buckingham, 4C3. 
 
 Naples, Joan, queen of, furrenders her dominions to pope Clement, If. 301. 
 
 Narbonne, the vifcount de, captured by the free companies before Montaubon, I. 701. 
 
 Naval engagement, before Sluys, between the navies of France and England, I. 141. — Be- 
 tween the Spaniards and the Englifli under king Edward the third, 389. — Off the ifland of 
 Bas in Brittanv, between the Englifh and Flemings, II. 91. — Before La Rochclle, between 
 the earl of Pembroke and the Spaniards, 100. 
 
 Navarete, in Spain, the battle of, between the prince of Wales and don Henry of Caflile, 
 I. 729. 
 
 Navarre, Charles, king of, lands with a large army at Cheibourg, 1. 402. — Arrefled by the 
 king of France, 408. — Efcapes from the caflle of Alleres, 470. — Makes peace with the 
 duke of Normandy, 471. — Harangues the Parifians, ib. — Deflroys many of the infamous 
 Jacquerie of Beauvoifis, 474. — Declares war againft France, 486. — Takes several towns 
 and fortreflTes in France, 488, 496. — Makes peace with the duke of Normandy, 510. — 
 Declares war againft him, 541. — Makes war on France, 602. — Makes peace with the king 
 of France, 668. — Enters into alliance with don Pedro ofCaftile, 688. — Conducts the 
 prince of Wales and don Pedro to Pampeluna, 713. — Enters into an alliance with the king 
 of England, 810. — Makes peace with the king of France, II. 46, 185. — Applies to king 
 Richard of England for aflaftance againft the king of France, 237. — Enters into an alliance 
 with him in England, 338. — Solicits aid from the Engliih at Bourdeaux to raife the Cege 
 of Pampeluna, 264. — Concludes a peace with the king of Spain, 277. — His extraordinary 
 death, III. ^6i. 
 
 2 E 2 Navarre,
 
 2o8 INDEX. 
 
 Navarre, the young king of, goes to Paris, to endeavour to gain back, his inheritance of 
 Evreux, IV. 592, 593. 
 
 Navarre, the lord Lewis of, takes the town of La Charite, I. 638. — Marries the queen of 
 Naples, 669. — His death, ib. 
 
 Navarre, Philip of, defends the pofleffions of his brother in Normandy againft the king of 
 France, I. 409. — Raifes an army to raife the liege of St. Valery, 501. — Refufes to accept 
 the peace which had been concluded between his brother and the duke of Normandy, 510. 
 
 Necromancer, a, ofFers to deliver up the cartel del Ovo to the duke of Anjou by enchantment, 
 II. 519. — Beheaded by order of the earl of Savoy, 521. 
 
 Negociations, carried on at Bolinges refpcdling a peace between the Englifh and the French, 
 II. 710. 
 
 Nesle, Guy de, defeated and taken prifoner by the Englifh in Saintonge, 1. 395. — Slain, 397. 
 
 Nesle, lord William de, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Ncvil's Cross, the batlle of, I. 341. 
 
 Neville, the lord, raifes the fiege of Mortain, 11. 255. — TakesSt. Maubert, 257. — Difmiffed 
 from his command in Northumberland, IV. I. 
 
 Newtonn, fir John, fent on an embaffy to Richard the Second from the rebels of Kent, 
 II. 464. 
 
 NicopoU, the town of in Turkey, belieged by the king of Hungary and John of Burgundy, 
 IV. 47'^. — The fiege raifed by the fultan Bajazet, 515. 
 
 Niort, the town of, flormed by the Englifli, II. 1 19. — Surrenders to fir Bertrand du Guef- 
 clin, 137. 
 
 Nivelc, the church of, burnt by the earl of Flanders, with feveral hundreds of the men of 
 Ghent in it, II. 441. 
 
 Nogent sur Seine, the town of, fold to the bifhop of Troycs, I. 517. 
 
 Nogtnt sur Seine, the battle of, I. 513. 
 
 Normandy, the duchy of, invaded by Edward the Third, I. 299. 
 
 Normandy, the duke of, invades Hainault, 1. 125. — Befieges Thin I'Eveque, I3_5.— Enters 
 Brittany with the lord Charles of Blois, 184. — Leads a large army to oppofe the king of 
 England in Brittany, 240. — Enters into a truce with him, 242. — Leads an army into 
 Gafcony to oppofe the earl of Derby, 287. — Takes the town of Miraumont and others, 
 287, et feq. — Marries Jane countefs of Boulogne, 381. — Appointed regent of France, 
 during the imprifonment of king John in England, 618, 457. — Ikfieges Paris, 477. — 
 Makes peace with the king of Navarre, 478. — Enters Paris, 484. — Lays fiege to Melun, 
 509. — Collects a force to drive the Englifli out of Champagne, 512. — Refufes to ratify the 
 peace concluded between king John and the Englilh, 519. — Dechnes to accept the chal- 
 lenge of the king of England, 553. — Endeavours to make peace with him, 556. — 
 
 Appointed
 
 ' 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 309 
 
 Appointed regent on the departure of king John for England, 608 —Crowned king of 
 
 France at Rlieims, under the title of Charles the fifth, 6^^. 
 Northuml/et/anJ, the earl of, takes Berwick caille, II. 220. — Enters Scotland with a large 
 
 army, ib. — Appointed lieutenant of Northumberland, 457. — Enters Scotland with a 
 
 large force, 718. — Baniflied by Richard the Second, IV. 636. — Recalled by the earl of 
 
 Derby, 662. 
 Norwich, the bifliop of, appointed commander in chief of a croifadc againft the Clemcntifl?, 
 
 11. 663.— Enters Flanders contrary to the advice of fir Hugh Calverlcy, 667. — Takes the 
 
 town of Giavelines and other places, 669. — Befieges Ypres, 679. —Abandons the fiege, and 
 
 returns to England, 688. — Badly received on his return, 709. 
 Noyon, the bifhop of, taken prilbner at Manconfeil, I. 490. 
 
 O. 
 
 Olifenie, Agadinquor, an African chief, his condu£t at the fiege of Africa, TV. 227. 
 Orchles, the town of, burnt by the earl of Ilainault, I. 148. 
 
 Orcnze, the town of, in Galicia, furrenders to the forces of the duke of Lancafter, III. 434. 
 Ortflamme, the facred banner fo called, difplayed by the king of France at the battle of Rofc- 
 
 becque in Flanders, II. 638 and note. 
 Orleam, the dutchefs of, fufpei^ed of attempting to poifon the king of France, IV. 484. — ■ 
 
 SufpetSted of c.iuGng his illnefs, 537. 
 Orthon, a familiar fpirit, ferves the lord of Corafle, III. 188. 
 Ortnngas, the town of, taken by Peter d'Anchin, III. 87. 
 OJirate, W.iuftre, takes the caftle of Roulebois fur Seine, I. 541. 
 Ojirroant, the country of, burnt by the garrifon of Douay, I. 1 32. 
 Ojircvant, the count of, created a knight of the Garter, IV. 228. — Gives offence to the king 
 
 of France, 235. — Does homage to the king of France for tlie county of Oftrevant, 465. — • 
 
 — Raifes an army to invade Friefland, 466. — Invades Friefland, 5C0. — Difbands his army 
 
 506. — Invites the earl of Derby to Hainault after he had been baniflied from England, 607. 
 Otho, fir, of Brunfwicke demands his pay from pope Clement at Avignon, III. 224. 
 Otterbourne, the battle of, IV. 9. [See alfo 19, note.'] 
 Oudenarde, the town of, befieged by the men of Ghent, 11. 332, 350. — Taken by Francis 
 
 Atremen, 698. — Retaken by the lord Defiournay, 728. 
 Oxford, the earl of, taken prifoner in Gafcony, I. 258. — Endeavours to diffuade the king ot 
 
 England from affifting his uncles in their pretenfions to the crown of CaftiUe, III. 75. — 
 
 Created duke of Ireland, 347. 
 
 Pampeluna,
 
 210 INDEX. 
 
 P. 
 
 Pampeluna, the town of, befieged by the king of Caftille, II. 266. 
 
 Paris, the city of, befiegedby the duke of Normandy, I. 477. 
 
 Pari/ians, the, rebel againfl Charles the Sixth, II. 502. — Appeafed by the lordde Coucy, 503. 
 — Fined by the king, ^^i"]. 
 
 Partenay, the lord de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, 1. 438. 
 
 PaJJac, fir Walter de, takes St. Forget, and feveral other places in the Touloufain, Ilf. 196. 
 — Accompanies the duke of Bourbon in an expedition into CalViUe, 364. — Arrives at 
 Burgos, 399. 
 
 St. Patrick^ s Hole, in Ireland, its fingular properties, IV. 441. 
 
 Pavie, fir Aymery de, governor of Calais, enters into a treaty with fir Geoffry de Chargny to 
 deliver up the town to him, I. 375. — Prevented by the king of England, 376. — Taken 
 prifoner by fir GeofFry de Chargny, and beheaded, 391. 
 
 Peace, concluded between France and England, I. 558. — At Leulinghen, IV. 3S7. 
 
 Pedro the Fourth, don, king of Caflille, fummoned to appear before pope Urban the Fifth at 
 Avignon, I. 672. — Excommunicated, ib. — Endeavours to raife a force to oppofe his brother 
 don Henry, and the duke of Burgundy, 675. — Flies to Corunna, 676. — Goes to Aquitaine 
 to folicit the affidance of the prince of Wales, 678. — Enters Spain, accompanied by the 
 prince and a large forcej7i3. — Defeats the army of don Henry at Navarete, 739. — Obtains 
 the fubmiffion of Cafiile, 740. — Incurs the difpleafure of the prince of Wales, 749. — 
 Defeated by don Henry at Montiel, 765. — Taken prifoner, 767. — Killed by his brother, 
 768. — His bones found by his daughter the duchcfs of Lancafter and interred at Seville, 
 IV. 66. 
 
 Pembroke, the earl of, fent to the affiftance of the prince of Wales in Aquitaine, I. 797. — 
 Makes war on Perigord, Sec. 799. — Invades the territories of Anjou, II. 19. — Returns to 
 England, 77. — Appointed governor of Aquitaine, 97. — Defeated and taken prifoner by 
 the Spaniards before La Rochelle, 103. — Infulted by Evan of Wales atSt. Andero^ 109. — 
 Obtains his ranfom. 161. — Dies at Arras, 163. 
 
 Pennon, the nature of the military enfign fo called, explained, 1.419, note. 
 
 Percy, fir Henry, dies in Caflille, III. 516. 
 
 Percy, fir Henry, appointed commander in chief of the forces in Northumberland, IV. i. 
 
 Percy, fir Ralph, captured at the battle of Otterbourne, IV. 50. 
 
 Percy, fir Thomas, appointed fenefchal of Poitou, II. 33. — Takes the caftle of Montcontour, 
 8j. — Captured by the French at Soubife, 120. — Refigns his office of fteward of the houfe- 
 hold to king Richard the Second, IV. 556. — Appointed governor of Aquitaine, 676. 
 
 Ptrigord, the cardinal de, endeavours to make peace between the king of France and the 
 
 prince
 
 INDEX. 311 
 
 prince ofWales previous to the battle of Poitiers, I. 422. — Makes peace between the duke 
 of Normandy and the king of Navarre, 510. 
 
 Per'igord, the earl of, defeats the high ftevvard of Rouerge, T. 786.— Befieges Rcalville, 812. 
 
 Perth, the town of, deftroyed by Richard the Second, III. 46. 
 
 Peterson, John, admiral of tlie Flemifli fleet, defeated and captured by the Englifli ofFthe 
 ifland of Bas, II. 91. 
 
 St. Phagon, the town of, in Spain, ])illaged by fome Breton foldicrs. III. 525. 
 
 Philip, lord, of Burgundy, killed before Aiguillon, 1-333. 
 
 Philip ofFalois, chofen king of France, to the exclufion of Ifabella, queen of England, 1. 6. 52. 
 —Makes war on the Flemings, 53, — Baniflies Robert d'Artois from France, 62. — Puts on 
 the crofs, 71. — Enters into an alliance with the king of Scotland, 88. — Receives a| defiance 
 from the king of England, gi. — Leads an army to oppofe his forces, 100. — Dcftroys 
 the territories of fir John of Hainault, 1 13. — Invades Flanders, 122. — Sends forces into Scot- 
 land to aflift the Scots againfl: the Englifli, 150. — Aflembles a large army to raise the fiegc 
 
 ■ of Tournay, 153. — Enters into a truce with the king of England, 170. — Affifts the lord 
 Charles of Blois to recover the duchy of Brittany from theearlof Montfort, 184. — Aflembles 
 an army to oppofe the earl of Derby in Gafcony, 386. — Colledls another army to oppofe 
 king Edward in Normandy, 303. — Defeated at the battle of Crecy, 326. — CoUedts a 
 large army to raife the fiege of Calais, 358. — Enters into a truce with the king of England, 
 370. — Marries the lady Blanche, daughter of Philip, king of Navarre, 381. — Dies at 
 Nogent le Roi, 393. 
 
 Philip, fon of king John of France, created duke of Burgundy, I. 635. 
 
 Philippa, daughter of the earl William of Hainault, married to Edwaid the third, I. 46. — 
 In the abfence of the king raifes an army to oppofe the Scots, 339. — Defeats them at the 
 battle of Nevil's Cross, 341. — Receives the king of Scotland as her prifoner at York, 349, 
 — Her three lafl. requells to king Edward, II. 14. — Her death, 14. 
 
 Philippa, daughter of the duke of Lancafter, married to the king of Portugal, III. 37^. 
 
 Picardy, the country of, invaded by king Edward the Third, I. 99. 
 
 Pierrepont, the town of, taken by fir Euflace d'Ambreticourt, I. 552. 
 
 Piquigny, fir John de, delivers the king of Navarre from the caflle of Alleres, I. 470. — En- 
 deavours to take the town of Amiens, 492. — Forces the duke of Normandy to raife the 
 fiege of Mauconfeil, 480. — Dies at La Herrielle, 516. 
 
 Plague, the, defolates all Europe, I. 391. 
 
 Plaisac, Heliot de, governor of Boutvilie, taken by the French, II. 281. 
 
 Poitiers, the city of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 337. — Surrenders to fir Bertrand du 
 Guefclin, II. 118. 
 
 Poitiers, the battle of, between the king of France and the prince of Wales, I. 427. 
 
 Poitien
 
 212 INDEX. 
 
 Poitiers, fir Charles de, burnt to deatli at a mafked dance at Paris, IV. 72. 
 Poix, the town of, deflroyed by the Enghfh under Edward the Third, I. 314. 
 St. Pol, the town of, befieged by tlie duke of Lancafter, II. 21. 
 St. Pol, the earl of^ flain at the battle of Crecy, I. 328. 
 
 St. Pol, the count de, captured by the Englifli at Liquc, and fent to England, II. 166. — 
 Marries the lady Maude, daughter of the princefs of Wales, 391. — Leads an army into 
 Friefland, 497. 
 Pommiers, the lord de, beheaded at Bourdeaux for treafon, H. 195. 
 Pompadour, the lord of, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 Pondairc, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 257. 
 Pens, the lord de, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 438. 
 Pons, the lord de, turns to the French interefl, II. 84. 
 
 Pont au Dcmer, the town of, in Normandy, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 186. 
 Pont du St. Eiprit, the town of, taken by the free companies, I. 587. 
 Pontevedra, the town, of, in Gallicia, furrenders to the army of the duke of Lancafter, 
 
 III. 314. 
 PonthicH, the country of, conquered by the forces under fir Hugh de Chatillon, 1. 794. 
 Ponthieu, the earl of, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 437. 
 Popu'ace, of England, rebel againlt king Richard and the nobility, II. 459. — Enter London 
 
 and do much mifchief, 467. — Difperfed by the king, 480. 
 Porcien, the earl of, ranfomed, I. 794. 
 Porkers of la RcspaiUe, a fet of pillagers fo called, commit fevcral depredations in Flanders, 
 
 II. 742. 
 Port St. Marie, taken by the duke of Anjou, II. 49. 
 Porthoeuf, fir Peter, governor of Dinant, taken prifoner, I. 259. 
 Portelct, don Juan Ferdinando de, infoniij Froiffart of many particulars relative to the 
 
 affairs of Portugal, III. 234. 
 Pou'et, the caflle of, in Gafcony, taken by the Englifh under fir Thomas Trivet, II. 270. 
 Poursuivant d' Jmotv, the meaning of the title explained, II. 796. 
 Presiigny, fir Reginald de, put to death, I. 400. 
 Preux, the caflle of, taken by the duke of Burgundy, I. 638. 
 Prie, the lord of, captured at the battle of Auray, I. 657. 
 Pruniaux, John, a citizen of Ghent, appointed one of the commanders of the Whitehoods 
 
 in that city, II. 230. — Takes tlie town of Oudenarde, 350. — Baniflied from Flanders, 
 
 353. — Delivered up to the earl, and beheaded, 354. 
 Pulpiron, the caflle of, taken by the French under fir Walter de P.iflac, III. 202. 
 Punach, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 256. 
 
 ^larrely
 
 INDEX. ai3 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quarrel, between the houfesof Brabant and Gueldrcs, the caufe of, explained, [II. 535. 
 
 ^eens, thiee, befieged in the town of Melun fur Seine, I. 509. 
 
 ^enillart, fir Henryde, takes fir Euftace d'Ambreticourt prifoner at the battle of Nogcnt 
 
 fur Seine, I. 515. 
 ^impercorcntln, the town of, in Brittany, taken by fir Rertrand du (iuefclin, II. 143. 
 ^ilmperle, the town of, in Brittany, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 143. — Befieged 
 
 by the duke of Brittany, 172. 
 ^uitiel, fir Hugh de, pillages Southampton, I. 95. 
 
 Raimbaut, Lewis, a captain of the free companies, beheaded, III. 150. 
 
 Ramfay, Alexander, takes the caftle of Berwick, II. 216. — Captured in the caflle by the earl 
 
 of Northumberland, 220. 
 Ravcnal, lord Raoul de, captured at Mauconfeil, I. 490. 
 RealvilU, the town of, taken by ftorm by the earl of Perigord, I. 812. 
 Reginald, count of Gueldres, his extravagance, III. 536. — Marries the daughter of Bertald, 
 
 of Mechlin, 540. — Afterwards marries Ifabella, daughter of Edward the Second of Eng- 
 land, 540. 
 Rennes, the town of, taken by the earl of Montfort, or duke of Brittany, I. 175. — Surrenders 
 
 to the lord Charles of Blois, 20a. — Befieged by the duke of Lancafter, 462. — Taken by 
 
 fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 142. 
 Reok, La, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 273. — Surrenders to the duke of An- 
 
 jou, II. 164. 
 Reyneval, lord Raoul de, defeated by the Englifh and Navarrois, under fir Godfrey de Har- 
 
 court, I. 456. 
 Rheims, the town of, befieged by Edward the Third, I. 538, 545. 
 Ribadeo, count, of Spain, one of the minifters of Charles the Fourth of France, arrefied by 
 
 the duke of Burgundy while regent, IV. 355. 
 Ril/eaumont, fir Eultace de, captured near Calais, I. 380. — Receives a chaplet of pearls from 
 
 the king of England, in reward for his prowefs, 381. — Slain at the battle of Poitiers, 435. 
 Ribemmont, fir Galahaut de, mortally wounded in a fkirmifh with the Englifli, I. 537. 
 Richard the Second, fon of the prince of Wales, born I. 707. — Declared prefumptive heir 
 
 to the throne of England, 11. 178. — Crowned king of England, 180. — Placed under 
 
 3 F the
 
 214 INDEX. 
 
 the tuition of fir Guircard d' Angle, 180. — Enters into an alliance with the king of 
 Navarre, 283.— Sends an army to the affiftance of the duke of Brittany, 342. — Quells 
 the rebellion of the populace under Wat Tyler, 477. — Makes a journey through feveral 
 parts of England to punirti the infurgents, 484. — Marries the lady Anne of Bohemia, 
 ^14. — Enters into a truce with France, 711. — Heads an army to oppofe the Scots 
 and the admiral of France, III. 39. — Deftroys the abbey of Melrofe, and feveral places 
 in Scotland, 44 et feq. — Quarrels with his uncles of York and Gloucefter, 461. — 
 Excites the difcontent of the people, ib. — Retires into Wales, 464. — Conftrained by 
 the people to appoint commiffioners to examine the accounts of his confidential miniders, 
 469. — Retires to Briftol, 474. — Takes meafures to counterad the proceedings of the 
 new council, which had been appointed for him by the commiffioners of accounts, ik. 
 
 Sends the duke of Ireland as his lieutenant, with a large army towards London, 480. 
 
 His troops defeated near Oxford, 492. — Returns to London, under the conduit of 
 
 the archbifliop of Canterbury, 496. — Affembles a parliament to receive the homage of his 
 fubjedls, 498.— Enters into a truce with the king of France, IV. 71.— Holds a grand tour- 
 nament at London, 238. — Endeavours to make peace with France, 264. — Concludes a peace 
 with king Charles, 298.— Prefents the duke of Lancafter with the duchy of Aquitaine, 
 404.— Leads an army into Ireland, 407. — Seeks to marry the lady Ifabella, daughter of the 
 king of France, 418.— Obtains the fubmiflion of four Irilh kings, 428. — Recalls the duke 
 of Lancafter from Aquitaine, 435. — Has an interview with the king of France at Ardres, 
 _5,i. — Receives the lady Ifabella from king Charles in his tent at Ardres, 51a. — Marries 
 her at Calais, lb. — Becomes unpopular in England, 547. — Orders the duke of Gloucefter 
 to be arrefted, 559.— Inverts the earl of Rutland with the conftablefliip of England, 589. 
 
 Proclaims a feaft to be held at Eltham, 603. — Banifhes the earl martlial for life, and the 
 
 earl of Derby for fix years, ib. — Seizes the revenues of the duchy of Lancafter on the 
 death of the duke, 626. — Breaks off" a marriage which was in contemplation between the 
 earl of Derby and the daughter of the duke of Berry, 629.— Holds a tournament at Wind- 
 for, which is but thinly attended, 634. — Banishes the earl of Northumberland and his fon, 
 
 636. The people of England rife in rebellion againft him, and in favour of the earl of 
 
 Derby, 638.— Retiies to Flint [Conway] caftle, 653.— Surrenders to the earl of Derby, 
 
 6^6. [mprifoned in the Tower of London, 660.— Redgns the crown in favour of the 
 
 earl of Derby, 668.— His death, 688.— His funeral, 689. 
 
 Ribadavia, the town of, taken by ftorm by the duke of Lancafter, III. 373. 
 
 Rigault, Giles, de Rouay, prefented with the red hat in the piefeiice of king John at Paris, I. 
 
 395- .^ , 
 
 Riviere, the lord de la, lakes the caftle of Aquigni, I. 640. — Impnfoned by the dukes of 
 
 Burgundy and Berry during the regency, IV. 358.— His eftates confifcated, 360. — De- 
 
 liveied from jrifon, 448. 
 
 Robert,
 
 INDEX. 115 
 
 Robert, duke of Heidelberg, ele£lcd emperor of Germany, IV. 691. 
 
 • , king of Sicily, eiuleavours to make peace between the kings of France and England, 
 
 I. 144. 
 
 I. king of Scotland, fee Bruce. 
 
 II. king of Scotland, fee Slewart. 
 
 , the hermit, ordered by a vifion to interfeiein bringing about a peace between France and 
 
 England, IV. 439. — Attends the conferences at Leulinghen, 441. — Sent to Kngland, 444. 
 
 Robe/art, the canon de, defeats the Navarrois near Creil, I. 498. — Turns to the English in- 
 terefl, 707. 
 
 Roche, La, fur Yon, the caftle of taken by the duke of Cambridge, I. 834. — Surrenders to 
 the French under fir Oliver de Cliffon, II, 345. 
 
 , La, d'Errien, the town of, taken by fir Thomas Daggeworth, I. 356. — Befieged by 
 
 the lord Charles of Blois, lb, — Surrenders to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 143. 
 
 Rouchechouart, the vifcount de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 438. — Imprifoned by the 
 prince of Wales, 835. — Liberated, ib. — His lands invaded by fir John Chandos, If. 4. 
 
 Rochelle, the town of, blockaded by the Spaniards and French under Evan of Wales, II. 119. 
 — Turns to the French intereft, 125. 
 
 Rochemilon, the caftle of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 266. 
 
 Rochc-pofay, La, the town of, taken by the French under fir John de Bueil, T. 813. 
 
 Rochetaillade, John de, his apologue relative to a fchifm in the church, III. 226. 
 
 Romorantin, the tov/n of, taken by the prince of Wales, I. 413. 
 
 Roquemadottr, the town of, taken by fir John Chandos, I. 823. 
 
 Rofebecque, the battle of, between the king of France and the men of Ghent, II. 6j7. 
 
 Rofem, the lord de, captured by the duke of Anjou, II. 200. 
 
 Roucy, the town of, in Picardy, taken by Robin Scott, I. 498. — Retaken by the archbifhop of 
 Rheims, 520. 
 
 . , the earl of, wounded and made prifoner, I. 498. — Taken prifoner a fecond time near 
 
 Seponne, 508. 
 
 Rouelles, the town of, in Galicia, furrenders to the duke of Lancafter, III. 299. 
 
 Rouen, the inhabitants of, rebel againft Charles the Sixth, II. 503. 
 
 Roulleboife fur Seine, the caftie of, taken by Wauftre Oftrate, I. 541. — Delivered up to fir Ber- 
 trand du Guefclin, 636. 
 
 Routes, a band of armed men fo called, make war on Arragon, III. 350. — Defeated by Ray- 
 mond de Bachcz, 353 . 
 
 Roye, the lord of, defeats and captures the lord of Gomigines, I. 544. 
 
 , fir Reginald de, tilts with fir John Holland at Enten5a, III. 393. — With two other 
 
 knights, holds a tournament near Calais againd all comers, IV. 107. 
 
 Rue, James de la, executed at Paris for treafon, II. 185. 
 
 a F 2 Ruffln,
 
 2i6 INDEX. 
 
 Ruffln, a Welfhman, commands a company of robbers in France, who commit great depreda- 
 tions between the Seine and the Loire, I. 468. 
 
 Saimpi, the lord de, with two other kniglits, holds a tournament near Calais, againft all 
 
 comers, IV. 107. 
 Sai?:fcs, the town of, furrenders to the French forces, (I. 122. 
 Saintongc, the lord de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 438. 
 Saintre, lord John de, captured at the battle of Poitiers, f . 438. 
 Salijbury, the eail of, taken prifoner by the garrifon of Lille, L 1 25. — Exchanged for the earl of 
 
 Moray, 2C2. — Heads an expedition into Brittany, IL 141. — Sent on an embaffy to France, 
 
 IV. 629. — Unites with the earl of Huntington in his plan to murder king Henry, 683. — 
 
 Beheaded, 685. 
 • , the countefs of, defends Wark Caftle againfl the Scots, I. 196. — Refills with great 
 
 fpirit the difhonourable overtures of king Edward, 300. 
 , fir John, beheaded at Oxford, III. 494. 
 
 Salle, fir Robert, governor of Norwich, killed by the infurgents in the reign of Richard the 
 Second, IL 474. 
 
 Salvatierra, the town of, furrenders to thearmy of don Pedro and the prince of Wales, I. 718. 
 — Taken by the duke of Anjou, II. 205. 
 
 St. Salvin, the abbey of, befieged bv the French, II. iq. 
 
 Sancerrc, the lord Lewis de, appointed marfhal of France, I. 829. — Defeats the earl of 
 Pembroke at Puirenon, II. 6. — Vifits the count de Foix at Orthes, IV. 63. — Made con- 
 ftable of France, 578. 
 
 Santarcn, the town of, rebels againft the king of Caftile, II. 159. — Returns to obedience, 16^. 
 
 St. Sauveur k Vicomte, the caflle of, taken by the Frencli, II. 174. 
 
 Saxony, the duke of, fent by the emperor of Germany into England to fee the country, pre- 
 vious to the marriage of the lady Anne of Bohemia to Richard the Second, II. 400. 
 
 Scarcity, a great one in France, I. 396. 
 
 5f,6//7w, occafioned in the church by the election of two popes, II. 297. 
 
 Scots, the, invade England under Robert Bruce, I. 31. — Their charafter and manners, ib. — Re- 
 take many of their fortreffes, and penetrate as far as Durham into England, 151. — Retake 
 Edinburgh, ib. — Take Stirling Caille, 190. — Enter into a truce with the king of England, 
 191. — Invade England under king David, 193. — Take the town of Durham, i()i- Be- 
 fiege Wark Caftle, 196.. — Defeated by the Englilh at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, 341. — 
 Refufe to abide by the truce which had been agreed upon at Bolinges, 718. — Enter England 
 contrary to the orders of king Robert, 721. — Invade England with the affiftanceof fir John 
 de Vienna, III, 34, — Treat the admiral with much harflinefs, 50. — Invade England 
 
 under
 
 INDEX. 217 
 
 under the young earl of Douglas, IV. 6. — Defeat the Englifh at the battle of Otter- 
 bourne, g. 
 
 Scott, Robin, takes the town of Roucy, in Picardy, I. 498. 
 
 Seaullc, the town of, taken by the French under fir William de la Tremouille, III. 565. 
 
 Seclin, the town of, burnt by the earl of Ilainault, I. 148. 
 
 Segar, John, governor of Noyent, murdered at Troyes, I. 518. 
 
 Senerach, the lord de, captured at the battle of I'oitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Sequainviik, fir Peter de, beheaded at Rouen, I. 636. 
 
 St. Severe, in Saintonge, taken by the duke of Berry, II. ii6. 
 
 S/uys, the town of, taken by the men of Ghent, II. 563. — Exchanged for the country of 
 Bethune, III. 25. 
 
 Soub'tfe, the caftle of, taken by the French under Evan of Wales, II. 120. 
 
 Southampton, the town of, pillaged by the French, I. 95. 
 
 Spaniards, the, defeated at fea by Edward the Third, 1. 389. 
 
 Spencer, fir Hugh, the elder, befiegcd with Edward the Second in Briftol, I. 19. — Taken and 
 beheaded, 20. 
 
 , fir Hugh, the younger, direfls the government of Edward the Second, I. 7. — ■ 
 Caufes the earl of Lancafter to be beheaded, ib. — Fruftrates the endeavours of queen Ifa- 
 bella to obtain afliftance in France, 13. — Befieged with the king in Briftol by the queen's 
 forces, 19. — Tgnominioufly beheaded at Hereford, 22. 
 -, the lord de, his death, II. 185. 
 
 . Stafford, lord, captured before Vannes, I. 238. — Exchanged for the lord de Cliffon, 244. — 
 Created an earl, 384. 
 
 , lord Ralph, killed by fir John Holland, III. 39. 
 
 Standwlch, John, puts Wat Tyler to death in Smithfield, II. 477. 
 
 Star, the order of the, revived by king John of France, I. 395. 
 
 Stewart, Robert, fucceeds to the crown of Scotland on the death of his uncle David the 
 Second, II. 140. — Enters into an alliance with the king of France, 215. — Makes pre- 
 parations to invade England, 216. — Sends to excufe himfelf to the king of England for 
 fome inroads which the Scots, contrary to his orders, had made into England, 236. — 
 Aflembles a large army to invade England, with the afliftance of the admiral of France, 
 III. 34. — Retires into the Higlilands during the war, 44. — Summons the prelates and 
 barons to conftder of a truce with England, IV. 70. 
 
 Stirling Cajile, retaken by the Scots, T. 190. 
 
 Straw, Jack, heads the populace of England in the rebellion againft king Richard and the 
 nobility, II. 461. — Taken and beheaded, 480. 
 
 Sudbury, Simon de, archbifliop of Canterbury and chancellor of England, murdered in the 
 Tower of London by Wat Tyler, II. 470^ 
 
 Sujffolk,
 
 sj8 index. 
 
 Suffolk, the earl of, captured by the governor of Lifle, I. 125. 
 
 Surgeres, the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 337.— Surrenders to fir Bertrand du 
 Guefclin, II. 127. 
 
 TaiMourg, the town of, taken by the Englifh under the eail of Derby, I. 337.— Surrenders 
 to the French, II. 122. — Befieged by the duke of Bourbon, III, 7. 
 
 T'allles, the nature of the tax fo called, explained, I. 752, note. 
 
 Talbot, lord, dies at Ruelles in Spain, III. 516. 
 
 TancorvUle, the earl of, taken prifoner by the Englilh under Edward the Third, I. 307. — 
 Captured at the battle of Poitiers, 437. 
 
 Tarbe, fir Aimery de, killed in a naval engagement before la Rochelle, II. 103. 
 
 Tajfegnon, the caftle of, in Gafcony, taken by fir Thomas Trivet, II. 269. 
 
 Tax on income, eftabliflied in France, I. 405. 
 
 Tello, don, brother of Henry, king of Caftille, defeats a body of Englifli troops under fir 
 William Felton, I. 723. 
 
 Terrieres, the town of, taken by fir John Chandos, I. 802. 
 
 Tertre, Peter du, executed at Paris for treafon, II. 185. 
 
 Tetenolr, GeofFry, obtains poffeflion of the caftle of Ventadour, in Auvergne, II. 294. — Mor- 
 tally wounded, IV. 53. — Makes his will, 54. — His death, 55. 
 
 Thilliers, the caftle of, taken by king John of France, 11. 409. 
 
 Thin PEveque, the town of, befieged by the duke of Normandy, I. 135. 
 
 Thouars, the town of, taken by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 127. 
 
 Thurie, the town and caftle of, taken by le Baftot de Mauleon, III. 14^. 
 
 Tibald, dodtor Simon, bifliop of London, preaches the juftice of the war againft France, 
 I. 805. 
 
 Tilt, at Enten9a, between fir John Holland and fir Reginald de Roye, III. 393. 
 
 Tonniers, the town of, taken by Edward the Third, I. 548. 
 
 Tonniens, the town of, taken by the duke of Normandy, I. 292. — Surrenders to the duke of 
 Anjou, II. 49. 
 
 Tour, the lord de la, flain at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Touraine, the duke of, brother of Charles the Sixth of France, buys the reverfion of the 
 county of Blois, IV. 30. — Created duke of Orleans, 332. 
 
 Tournament, at Mons, I. 170.— By king Edward the Third at London, in compliment to 
 the countefs of Saliftiury, 226. — At Vannes before the duke of Britanny and the earl of 
 Buckingham, II. 416. — At Cambray, in honour of the marriage of the children of Bur- 
 gundy
 
 INDEX. 219 
 
 gundy with thofe of Hainault, II. 738. — At Paris, in honour of queen Ifabella's public 
 entrance, IV. 84. — At Inglevere, near Calais, by three French knights againft all comers, 
 107. — At London, by order of Richard the Second, 228. — At Windfor, which is badly at- 
 tended, 634. — At Oxford by the earl of Huntingdon, 683. 
 
 Tournay, the town of, befieged by Edward the Third, I. 146. 
 
 Treaty of alliance, entered into at Vilvorde, between the countries of Flanders, Brabant, and 
 Hainault, I. 145. 
 
 Treaty of peace, between the duke of Burgundy and the men of Ghent, III. 63. 
 
 Trelawny, fir Matthew, feverely wounded at Kocheperion, I. 217. — Taken prifoner, ib. — 
 Refcued from death, 222. 
 
 Trimouille, fir William de la, appointed to command a body of men to aflitl the duchefs of 
 Brabant againft the duke of Gueldres, III. 565. 
 
 Trejfdian, fir Robert, beheaded by order of the duke of Gloucefter and his party, III. 484. 
 
 Trivet, fir Thomas, fent to the afTiftnnce of the king of Navarre, II. 267. — Takes feveral forts 
 in Gafcony, 268, et feq. — Marches into Caftille, 274. — Returns to England, 282. — De- 
 feated by the French at Arras, 374. — Committed to the Tower of London, 709. — Killed 
 by a fall from his horfc, III. 472. 
 
 Truce, between the Englifh nnd the Scots, I. 48. — Between the French and Englifh, 169. — 
 Between the EngliQi and the Scots, 191. — Between the lord Charles of Blois and the 
 countefs of Montfort, 225. — For three years, between the French and Englifh, 243. 
 — Between France and England, 370. — Prolonged by order of pope Innocent, 402. — Be- 
 tween France and England, 460. — Between the Englifh and the Scots, II. 52. — Between 
 the French and EnglilTi, 169. — Between the Englifti and Scots, 481. — Between the French 
 and Englifh with all their allies, 217. — Between the kings of Caftille and Portugal, II, 
 162. III. 187. — Between the French and Englilh, IV. 70. 87, 368, 396. 
 
 Tyler, Wat, heads the populace of England in their reliellion againll: king Richard the Se- 
 cond and the nobility, II. 461. — Killed in Smithfield, 477. 
 
 U. 
 
 Urban the Fifth, pope, eleded at Avignon, I. 59 ^. — Preaches a crufade againft the Saracens, 
 
 599. — Excommunicates don Pedro, king of Caftille, 672. — His death, 11. 74. 
 Urban the Sixth, eleded at Rome, II. 231. — Sends a bull to England for the deftrudlion of the 
 
 Clementifts, 662. — Befieged in Perugia — Efcapes to Rome, III, 225. — Dies at Rome, 
 
 IV. 127. 
 Utrecht, the town of, taken by the earl of Hainault, I. 284. 
 Uzes, the caftle of, in Auvergne, taken by fir John Devereux, II. 87.— Surrenders to fir 
 
 Bertrand du Guefclin, 88. 
 
 Falery,
 
 a2<* INDEX. 
 
 Valery, the caftle of, taken by the king of Navarre, I. 487. — Taken by the eafl de St. Pol, 
 501. — Taken by fir Hugh de ChatiUon, 1. 793. 
 
 Valois, the lady Joan de, concludes a truce between the kings of France and England, T. i6g. 
 
 Vanncs, the town of, furrenders to the earl of Montfort as duke of Brittany, T. 178. — Taken by 
 ftorm by the lord Charles of Blois, 214. — Retaken by lord Robert d'Artois, 231. — Taken 
 by fir Oliver de Cliffon, 234. — Befieged by the Englilh, 236. — Taken by fir Bertrand du 
 Guefclin, 11. 143. 
 
 Varenncs, John de, refigns all his preferments in the church, IV. 403. 
 
 Vaucllgncn, tlie town of, taken by the duke of Burgundy, II. 184. 
 
 Vaudemont, earl of, captured at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 f^auflart de la Croix, fir, defeated and taken prifoner in a Ikirmifh at Pont a Treffin, 157. — 
 Put to death at Lifle, 1^8. 
 
 Vaulx, fir Henry de, taken prifoner at Cormicy, I. 545. 
 
 Vendome, the earl of, taken prifoner at the battle of Poitiers, I. 435. 
 
 Fcntadour, the caftle of, in Auvergne, betrayed to Geoffrey Tete-noir, II. 294. — Befieged by 
 the duke of Berry, III. 563. — Taken by his forces, IV. 139. 
 
 Verchin, fir Gerard de, mortally wounded in a tournament at Mons, I. 170. 
 
 Verneuil, the tovi^n of, taken by the duke of Lancafter, I. 409. 
 
 Verteu'tl, the town of, taken by the duke of Bourbon, III. 33. 
 
 Vienne, fir John de, governor of Calais, fent prifoner to England, I. 370. 
 
 ■ , admiral of France, heads an expedition to Scotland to invade England, II. 
 
 740. — Badly treated by the Scots, III. 11. — Invades England, accompanied by a Scottifh 
 army, 34. — Sent on an embaffy into Caflille, IV. 49. — Returns to France, 60. — Killed at 
 the battle of Nicopoli, 519. 
 
 Vienne, the dauphin of, invefled with the duchy of Normandy, I. 405. 
 
 Vietat, don Alphonfo, high admiral of Portugal, fent to England to convey the duke of Lan- 
 cafter and his army to Portugal, III. 266. 
 
 Villaines, Le begue de, one of the minifters of Charles the Sixth, arrefted by tlie duke of Bur- 
 gundy during his regency, IV. 355. — Liberated, 360. 
 
 Vllledope, the town of, in Galicia, taken by the duke of Lancafler, III. 300. 
 
 Villefranche , the town of, taken by the earl of Derby, I. 276. — Taken by ftorm by the duke 
 of Normandy, 287. — Taken by fir John Chandos, 823. 
 
 Vifconti, fir Bernabo de, put to death by his nephew, III. 4. 
 
 — , fir Galeas de, puts fir Bernabo, his uncle, to death. III. 4. — Enters into an alliance 
 
 with the fultan Bajazet, IV. 486. 
 
 Wake,
 
 INDEX. «2i 
 
 W. 
 
 ffake, fir Thomas, defeated by the Gafcon lords, I. 787. 
 
 Walworth, fir William, lord mayor of London, afllftj to fecure Wat Tyler in Smithfield, 
 11.477. 
 
 fVark cajile, belonging to the earl of Salifljury, beficged by the Scots, I. 195. 
 
 Wars, between France and England, how caufed, I. 6. 
 
 Warvjick, the earl of, joins the duke of Gloucefter in his attempts to excite diflurbances in 
 England, IV. 546. — Sent to the Tower, 583. — Baniflied to the Ifle of Wight, 586. — Re- 
 called by the carl of Derby, 66a. 
 
 Werre, fir Pepin de, flain at the battle of Calais, I. 380. 
 
 Werfey, lord Robert de, taken prifoner at the battle of Nevil's Crofs, I. 346. 
 
 Whhehoodsy the cuftom of wearing them revived at Ghent, II. 313. 
 , fee Ghent, men of. 
 
 Wincejlaui the Sixth, emperor of Germany, his election, II. 34a. — Sends his fifter, Anne of 
 Bohemia, to England, to be married to Richard the Second, 512. — Dies at Luxembourg 
 711. 
 
 Wifant, James and Peter, their patriotic condu6l during the fiege of Calais, I. 395, 
 
 ffykeham, fir William, appointed bifLop of Worcefter and chancellor of England, I. 785. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Tork, the archbifliop of, difmiffed from his office of treafurer by the commiffioners of ac- 
 counts, III. 476. 
 
 — — , the duke of, his creation, III. 341. — Confederates with the duke of Gloucefter and 
 others againft king Richard and his council, 461. 
 
 Ypres, the town of, enters into an alliance with the men of Ghent, II. 331, ji i. — Turns to 
 the earl of Flanders, 433. — Surrenders to the king of France, 623. — Befieged by the biftiop 
 of Norwich, 678. 
 
 Trier, the town of, in Limoges, takea by fir Bertrand du Guefclin, II. 67. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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 LIST OF THE PLATES. 
 VOL. I. 
 
 To face Page 
 
 1 . Queen Isabella's arrival at Paris to complain to her brother against sir Hugh Spencer ... 8 
 
 2. King Edward's first Expedition against the Scots 39 
 
 r I. The Bishop of Lincoln and others, who had vowed to wear a patch over one eye, 
 
 3. < until they had performed some gallant deed of arms 67 
 
 ' 2. King Edward the Third sends his challenge to Philip de Valois, King of France. . . 92 
 
 4. The Earl of Hainault takes and destroys Aubenton 119 
 
 5. The entry of John de Montfort and his Duchess into Nantes 173 
 
 6. King David of Scotland comes with a great army before Newcastle-upon-Tyne IQS 
 
 7. Map of the March of King Edward the Third through France, from Barfleur to Calais, 
 
 A.D. 1300 299 
 
 8. The battle near Caen, which is conquered by the King of England 306 
 
 9. The battle of Crecy, with the castle of Broc in the distance 325 
 
 10. Battle at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of the King of Scotland against the Queen of England. . 342 
 
 11. Battle of La Roche d'Errien, and Lord Charles of Blois taken prisoner by the English . . 358 
 
 12. The combat of thirty Englishmen against thirty Frenchmen, near Ploermel, in Brittany . 374 
 
 13. Battle of Calais, between the King of England, under Sir Walter Manny, and the French 377 
 
 14. The arrest of Charles Le Mauvais, King of Navarre, in the castle of Rouen 408 
 
 15. The battle of Meaux, in Brie, where the Jacquerie were defeated by the Count de Foix 
 
 and the captal de Buch ._ 477 
 
 IC. Charles V. of France and his Queen crowned in the great church at Rheims 635 
 
 VOL. IL 
 
 1 7. The sea fight off La Rochelle 100 
 
 18. The Lord de Ponimiers, and Coulon his secretary, beheaded at Bourdeaux iQ5 
 
 }i). The Duke of Anjou asspmbles a great army and besieges Bergerac iQ(i 
 
 20. The town of Duras besieged and taken by assault 208 
 
 21 . Sir Oliver de Guesclin taken prisoner in the forest of Cherbourg 263 
 
 22. The Queen of Naples surrenders her dominions to Pope Clement VII 302 
 
 23. Map of the Netherlands 307 
 
 24. The men of Ghent assault the Earl of Flanders in Dendremonde 334 
 
 25. The townsmen of Ghent send ambassadors to the Earl of Flandc rs 344 
 
 26. Oliver d'Auterme retaliates upon the mariners of Ghent for his brother's deatli 350 
 
 27. John Gronnet and the White Hoods take Oudenarde, and break down the gates Hid 
 
 28. The Earl of Buckingham sent with an army to assist the Duke of Brittany 302 
 
 29. Chat Its V. of France perceiving the approach of death, recommends to his brothers his fa- 
 
 mily and kingdom 337 
 
 SO. Tilting match between Nicholas ClilTord and John Boucmel, a Frenchman 427 
 
 31. Rasse de Harzelle and John de Launoy, with 6OOO men of Ghent, slain at Meule, a vil- 
 lage in Flanders 441
 
 To face Page 
 33, A priest called John Ball stirs up gre.it commotion, in England ••••••••;••■•';••■■• ''^ 
 
 33. King Richard nnd hi. council go down the Than.c. in . barge to confer wth the robeU. . 4C7 
 
 34. King Richard in great danger in the city of Tendon, and the rebeh d,sox,mfited . . . . V© 
 
 35. Wat Tyler for his insolence is killed by Walworth, and King Richard puts h.ms.-lf at the ^^^ 
 
 head of the rebcli 
 
 36. Count Lewis of Flanders oilers terms to the people of Ghent 
 
 VOL. III. 
 
 37. Froissart presenting his letters from Guy Count dc Blois to Gaston Phoebus. Count de FoIk. ^^ 
 
 in his palace of Orthes 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 38 Queen Isabel of Bavaria's entry into Pari* ' 
 
 39. ^Ibella of Bavaria, wife of Charles. King of France, entering Paris with great ceremony 75 
 
 40. Tournament in honour of Isabel of Bavaria ^^^ 
 
 41. The coronation of Pope Boniface IX • • 
 
 42 The Tilt-field at St. Inglevere. near Calais, by three French kn.ghts against all comers . . US 
 43. Tournament at St. Inglevere, by three French knights against all comers. ... ..... .^ ■ _ - 
 
 44 The expedition of Africa undertaken by the Duke of Bourbon, as general ,n chief. «uh 
 
 several other English and French knights, at the entreaty of the Genoese .... .^ . • . • l^_ 
 
 45 The execution of Aimerigot Marcel at Paris ^^^ 
 
 46. Grand Council of the King of France and his Uncles at Amiens ^^^ 
 
 D. Embassy trom the King ot i^ngianu lo a=... u, .........5- - .- - . 
 
 51. The King of Hungary addressing the French knights, his companions, on the success ot ^^^ 
 
 40. A masque at Pans, where tne King a.iu uin.... ^.^....- -- --. - - 
 
 50. Embassy from the King of England to ask in marriage the Lady Isabella of France . . , 
 King of Hungary addressing the 1 
 
 their expedition into Turkey ',.■ •' ' ' 1 "p '• ' 1 „ j 400 
 
 50 William of Hainault and his companions set out on an expeduioi. to Fries and. . _ . 409 
 
 \l Isabella, daughter of the King of France, given in marriage to the King ot England, in a ^^^ 
 
 tent between Ardres and Calais ''.'"\y"( pi' k„ sm 
 
 .4. King Richard pays a visit to his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, at his caste 01 Ple»hy . . . 5.« 
 
 55 The Duke of Gloucester arrested by the Earl Marshal, and sent to Cdai, ; ^ " " ^ " '"^ 
 
 56'. King^Riehard passing sentence of banishment against the Earl o. Derby and the Eail ^^ 
 
 57.TheEtuf'Derby';JkeVieVveof;heK;agoVF;ance', and goes to his cousin the Duke ^^ 
 
 of Brittany .' ^j^-^ 
 
 58. King Richard resigns his crown and kingdom to the Duke ot Lancaster 603 
 
 .5f). Henry Duke of Lancaster crowned King of Enghind 
 
 VOL V. (or Supplement.) 
 
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