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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 181
with ' iron chains according to their ufual cuftom î
for the Spaniards know not how to (hew courtefy to their prifoners, but aft like the Germans.
Evan *of Wales had the fame day arrived with his fhip at St. 'Andeto, and had entered the hôtel where don Fernando de Rofas and Cabeflb d* Vaccadent had conduced the earl of Pembroke and his knights. This was told to Evan in .Mtf apartment, faying; cSir, come and fee the EngKfh knights whom our people have made prifoners, they will enter this hôtel, x for it is not long fine* they arrived.*- Evan being very defirous of feeing therti, to know who they were, went out. H5 met, on quitting his chamber, it\ the apartment o£ the landlord, the earl of Pembroke, whom he di-reftly recognized, though he had fcarcely ever lëèn him before. He addrefled him in a reproach-ful manner: c Earl Pembroke, are you come Intel this country to do me homage for the lands you hold tf me in the principality of Wales, • of which I am the heir, and: which your king has deprived me of, through the advice of evil counfellors V
The earl of Pembroke was much difpleafed and alhamed, feeling himfelf a prifoner in a ftrange country, to be thus apoftrophifed in his own lan-guage by one whom he did not know, and replied, f Who are you that you addrefs me in fuch words ?*
• By every thing I can find, this Evan was an impoior.-^ Llewelyn, the laft prince of Wales, was treacheroufly {Iain, near Builth, in Edward I.'s reign. Probably the king of France knew this,.but employed him in hopes of his affiiance againft England.-^-Sea Barnes and others,
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