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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 140
CHAP. XVIII.
THE DEATH OF PETER KING OF ARRAGON, H IS
SUCCESSOR, KINO JOHN, DETAINS PRISONER THE ARCHBISHOP OF BORDEAUX, WHO WAS NEGO-TIATING, FOR THE DUKE OF LANCASTER, THE PAYMENT OF CERTAIN SUMS WHICH HE CLAIMED AS DUE .TO HIM FROM ARRAGON.
j^BOUT Candlemas of this year (138?), king Peter of Arragon lay on his death-bed. When he found there were no hopes of his recovery, he fent for his two fons, John and Martin*, to whom he faid,—1 My fair children, I leave you well eftablifhed, and' the affairs of my kingdom pro-perly arranged. Live peaceably and lovingly, and you will gain honour and renown. With regard to ecclefiaftical matters, for my confcience Ukc and greater fafety, I have always been neuter : do you do the fame, until the knowledge, which pope is the true one, fhall be more apparent.*
His two fons dutifully replied, that they would do fo, and punctually obey whatever he fhould
* Martin was king of Sicjly, and on the death of John, killed by a fall from his horse in pursuing an enormous WQÎf, suc-ceeded to the crown of Arragon. John did not follow his father's counfeb with refpeéfc to the difputed tiara, but acknowledged Clement Vll.—Art de Verifier les Dates.
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