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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.8
page 33
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CHAP. V.
THE DUKE OF LANCASTER, AFTER RE If à I NINO BE' FORE CORUNNA UPWARDS OF A MONTH, MARCHES HIS ARMY TO SANT JAGO, WHICH SURRENDERS ON CAPITULATION.
ipi^HEN the duke of Lancafter had remained before Corunna upwards of a month, as I. have before faid, and when his men and horfes .were quite recovered, he was advifed to march to-wards Sant Jago, where there was a richer pnd more open country for his cavalry.
The army difiodged from before Corunna, and marched in three battalions. The marihal led the van, of three hundred lances and fix hundred archers; then marched the duke with four hundred fpears, accompanied by all the ladies. The rear was compofed of four hundred lances and feven hundred archers, accompanied by the conftable, fir John Holland. They marched very ilowly, and were three days in going from Corunna to Sant Jago. You muft know, that the province of Galicia was much alarmed at the arrival of the duke of Lancafter, for they remembered his power well.
^ When the marihal and the van came before the town ^f St. Jago de Compoftella, where the body of St. James repofes, and which many make fuch
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