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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.11
page 295
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tourer of the Louvre, for the debt - he 'hid beef! fentenced to pay of one hunrded thoufand francs to the queen of Jerufalexn. • I imagine he engaged * 10 pay the queen the, above fum by instalments § bit I will, for the prcfent, leave fpeaking of thefe matters* and return to what was% paging in Turkey. '
CHAP. XLI.
THE CHRISTIANS ARE FORCED TO RAISB THE SIEGE OF NICOPOLÏ, BY THE ARRIVAL OF BÀ-. jAZET . ,N TURKEY.—THEY ARE DEFEATED AID ' THE HUNGARIANS PUT TO FLIGHT, THROUGH THE PRESUMPTUOUS FOL-LY OF THE FRENCH,
\70U have before read in our hiftory how the " king of Hungary, and the lords from France who had gone to Hungary in iêarch of deeds of arms, had valiandy crofled the Danube, and en-tered Turkey -, where, during the fummer, from the month of July, they had conquered a large traft of country, having mercifully fpatcd the inhabitants and many towns and caftles, for none could withftand their power. They had befieged the city of Niçopoli, and fo hardly prclTed it by their attack?, that it was on • the point of fur-y % render-
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