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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.4
page 122
SIR BERTRAND ÏV CUESCLrN AID THE LOltfr " DE CLISSON rrEFEAT THE FORCES Of SIR ROBERT KNOLLES AT PGKTrVALïtf*.
£Q0£? after fir Re*tr*nd d*i Guefcftn tod bee^ ^ «wreftcd with tfye dignity çf omftaWe, be -tc# the king he wiflifd to form an expedition agaipfl: fir Robert K*KUe* fnd his forces, who we#e at that time on the borers of Mpipe and This W£? very agpgeftfete to the Jting, ^who iaid m bim, ' Take aqy .-number ^f :fnen at grms pleafe, and whatever elfe you may think right/
The conftable-made every necefïàry £Ç€$*r#iQfi, and colk&ed a .large body of men -at .arms, Arç» tons and • others, -and parched cowards tyLaine taking with .him the lord .de Cliffen. The confty-ble came-to the city of Mans, where he fixed his head-quarters, and the lord de Cliflbn in another town hard by : they might be about five hundred lances.
Sir Robert Knolies and his army were ftill in that part of the country, but they did not agree very well together j for there was an Englifh knight among them, called fir John Menftre-
• Pont-Valin,—a' town in Anjou, election of la Flèche
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