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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.3
page 224
Among the articles of the treaty between thé kings of France and Navarre, the towns of Mante and Meulan were to be given the king of France, who reftored to the king of Navarre other cafties in Normandy.
About this time, the lord Louis de Navarre fet out from France, and paled through Lombardy, to efpoufe the queen of Naples*. At his departure, he borrowed of the king of France fixty thoufand francs, upon the fecurity of fome cafties which be-longed to him in Normandy. He furvived his marriage with that queen but a fhort time. May God forgive him his faults ! for he was a good and courteous knight,
CHAP. CCXXFM.
A WAR IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE KING, DON PEDRO OF CASTILLE, AND HIS BASTARD BROTHER
HENRY, TO WHOSE AID THE LORD JOHN DE
BOURBON AND SIR BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN
LEAD THE PILLAGING COMPANIES. HENRY,
BY THEIR MEANS, IS CROWNED KING OP CASTILLE.
this periodf, thofe companies of freebooters were fo much increafed in France that the government did not know what to do with them^
* The queen of Naples. This muft have been the too celebrated Jane, but I cannot find the marriage mentioned m any other book. • '
t This period,—13(55.
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