provoked anfwers, and the lie was given on both fides. Shortly after, the lord de Harcelles was killed ; and feme fay that Francis Atremen and Peter du Bois were the authors of it. About this time, the Ghent men requefted the king of England to fend them a valiant man for governor, and one who was connected with the crown by blood. In confequence, the king fent to Ghent one of his knights, a gallant man, of fufficient prudence to govern the town: hi$ name was fir John Bourchier*, who remained governor of Ghent upwards of a year and half. CHAP LXXIL THE DUKE OF ANJOU DIES AT A CASTLE NEAflL NAPLES. HIS WIDOW IS ApVISED TO SOLICIT THE POPE FOR. THE POSSESSION OF PROVENCE. YOU have before heard how the duke of An-jou, who ûiled himfelf king of Sicily and , Jerufalem, had marched into la Puglia and Ca-labria, and had conquered the whole country as far as Naples : but the Neapolitans would never turn to his party, and continued the fupport they had always given to the lord Charles Du-razzo. The duke of Anjou remained on this expedition three whole years ; you may fuppofe, therefore, that his expences were very great, for " ' * Sir John Bourchier. ' Lord Bourchier of EflTex, See Dugdale. - there. 365