CHRONICLES

OF

ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET;

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUEL CIVIL WARS BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF

ORLEANS AND BURGUNDY;

OF THE POSSESSION OF

PARIS AND NORMANDY BY THE ENGLISH;

THEIR EXPULSION THENCE;

AND OF OTHER

MEMORABLE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE,

AS WELL AS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

A HISTORY OF FAIR EXAMPLE, AND OF GREAT PROFIT TO THE

FRENCH,

Beginning at the Year Mcccc. where that of Sir JOHN FROISSART finishes, and ending at the Year MCCCCLXVII. and continued by others to the Year MDXVI,

TRANSLATED

BY THOMAS JOHNES, ESQ.

TOR LIBR

IN THIRTEEN VOLUME S......VOL. I.

EW-YORK

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATER-
NOSTER-ROW; AND J. WHITE AND CO. FLEET-Street.

1810.

NEW YOPH

How Charles the well-beloved reigned in France,

after he had been crowned at Rheims, in the

year thirteen hundred and eighty

CHAP. II.

An esquire of Arragon, named Michel d'Orris,

sends challenges to England. The answer

he receives from a knight of that country

CHAP. III.

Great pardons granted at Rome

CHAP. IV.

John of Montfort, duke of Brittany, dies. The

emperor departs from Paris. Isabella queen

of England returns to France

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CHAP. V.

PAGS

The duke of Burgundy, by orders from the king of France, goes into Brittany, and the duke of Orleans to Luxembourg.

ensues between them

CHAP. VI.

A quarrel

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Clement duke of Bavaria is elected emperor of Germany, and afterward conducted with a numerous retinue to Frankfort

CHAP. VII.

Henry of Lancaster, king of England, combats the Percies and Welshmen, who had invaded his kingdom, and defeats them

CHAP. VIII.

John de Verchin, a knight of great renown, and seneschal of Hainault, sends, by his herald, a challenge into divers countries, proposing a deed of arms

CHAP. IX.

The duke of Orleans, brother to the king of
France, sends a challenge to the king of
England. The answer he receives

CHAP. X.

Waleran count de Saint Pol sends a challenge to

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the king of England

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