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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.6
page 209
death. As he was thus examining the dead, he faw, coming towards him from Ghent, a herald attached to the Icing of England, whofe name was Chandos, though called Ireland king at arms. Philip was much pleafed at the arrival of this herald, h and afked * what news he had brought/ ' My lord,' replied the herald, « five oif your ambaffadors returned to Ghent, accom-panied by a knight called fir William Frenen-ton*, who, by orders from the king and council* bring letters (as we learnt from them at Dover) addreffed to you as regent of Flanders. When you know the contents of thefe letters, and ap-prove of the great alliance offered to you, large ^ reinforcements will be inflantly fent you on the i*etprn of the knight and his companions to England/ ' M
Philip faid,—* I am not well fatisfied with fuch an arrangement : the fuccours will come too late,1 Go to my quarters/ He ordered him to be conducted to the lodgings of the lord dè Harzelles, that he might hear the news; while he ! took the road to Ghent, but in fo melancholy a temper of mind that nothing could be got from him, npr could he be perfuaded to enter into any agreeable converfation.
* Sir W. Frenington. Q. if not Farringdon.
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