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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.5
page 90
wa* à great egfcroy m them * as were the lord d* Fortcrel and the baftard de Eorterel, his brother* and a fquire from the Bourbonnois called Got* domes. This Gordomes, one day meeting Aime.* figot Marcel* by a gallant exploit, took him pri* fontr, and ranjfomed him for fire thoufand francs • fo much did he gain for him. Thus Was the war carried on in Auvergne, Limoufifi and the adjoining coontrieSé • .
chap, xviil • •
A SCHISM Itf THE CHURCH.—THE CAtfsE O? îf#
THE BRETONS MAKE WAR ON THE ROMANS*
—-THE QJJEEN OP NAPLES GIVES UP HER TER-RITORIES TO TOPE CLEMENT Vtl,
IHAVE been a long while filent on the affairs of the church : I now return to them, for it is be-come necefiary. You have before heard how the cardinals, to appeafe the Roman populace, who were very much enraged againft them, had chofen for pope the archbifhop of Bâri, whofe name, before his elevation, was Bartholomew Prignano : he af-terwards aflumed that of Urban VI, and gave in-dulgences according to the ufualcuftom.
The cardinals intended, on a proper opportunity, to make another ele&iôn f for this pope, being cho-leric and obftinate,'was neither profitable to them nor to the church j fo that when lie found himfeif
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