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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.12
page 23
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/even thoufand ducats of; yc&rly retenue which he poflçfled in the.city. of Vçnice, ,it yas of fo little value that they could not fet a price on it either to buy or fell, and they would ipt çrquble them:-felves about fo, fm^Il an obje&/ -
Such was the anfwer mad? by the Venetians to the ambaflfadors of the king of Hungary. Some faid, this reply ^as mere diflimul^tion, and that;, though the Hungarians had niade the offer to the count, they, in an underhand way, caufed th^s jmfwer to be given. Things^ therefore, Remained in the ftate they were in before, and the ambaf-fadors toot leave of the count de Nevers and thofe of his countrymen then with him, who were, fir Reginald Pot, the lord de i^ochefort and fir William de la Trimouille. m They left Venice, and returned to Hungary ; • but the French lords con-tinued at Trevifo on account of the great morta-lity that reigned in Venice.
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