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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.10
page 275
From what you have heard, you »sry fuppofe
fie count d'Arnutgoac had & great délire to aid his, filler, *aad it was mmp^&m fer her dut urged faon to k. When his men aiawps had pafibd.th* motmta»fi9 a*d had gained lee rich plains of Piedmont, sear to Tusin, they were not long before they made excurfions, and committed .great deftruftion oa lihe fnrrctaadiag village»* which could not anyway wilhftand them..
The count d'Armagnac laid &3*e m Afl£*, ioteaciig to -wait Aère .for fir joha Hiiilpwood. Purveyances came from »U quarters; a*d the x*ur ranr tamll 'fonts for '^io^
I until their wanls were fupptied* they took every thing away. The .country bf IftgnmA and the territiH-ies of the .marquis of Ment&rrat «wflte #pen to :thdr foraging-for themfelves and herfes, ïlbene casne iikewife great quantises -of !pfcoviftoa to them from Dauphiny and Savogr. Many leant to the «omit «d'Armagnac from the juftke of hies quarrel with the const de Vertou, who had wickedly pot ' to death ans nude Bernabo, Jp gain bis inhenit&tce; rand, akhamgfa ievçral of the great lords of that -country were filent oh tfawe fubjeâ, tfcey fek* much oiinpaffiaa far thole -who had hmm thus dffinherited. • ' "
During the fiege of Aft, mcry agreeable news was ^brought to .the count ' d'Armagnac iram fir John Hawkwood. He informed him, that :the
* AfH^—att ancient town of PLadmo&t, fi*e leagues N. E. from Aibi, eight S. W. from Cafal.
• • ' Florentines
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