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AN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUEL CIVIL WARS BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF ORLEANS AND BURGUNDY;
OF THE POSSESSION OF PARIS AND NORMANDY BY THE ENGLISH;
AND OF OTHER MEMORABLE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE, AS WELL AS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
_A HISTORY OF FAIR EXAMPLE, AND OF GREAT PROFIT TO THE FRENCH,_
_Beginning at the Year MCCCC. where that of Sir JOHN FROISSART finishes, and ending at the Year MCCCCLXVII. and continued by others to the Year MDXVI._
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND J. WHITE AND CO. FLEET-STREET.
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I am happy in this opportunity of dedicating the CHRONICLES OF MONSTRELET to your grace, to show my high respect for your many virtues, public and private, and the value I set on the honour of your grace’s friendship.
One of MONSTRELET’S principal characters was JOHN DUKE OF BEDFORD, regent of France; and your grace has fully displayed your abilities, as regent, to be at least equal to those of your namesake, in the milder and more valuable virtues. Those of a hero may dazzle in this life; but the others are, I trust, recorded in a better place; and your late wise, although, unfortunately, short government of Ireland will be long and thankfully remembered by a gallant and warm-hearted people.
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How Charles the well-beloved reigned in France, after he had been crowned at Rheims, in the year thirteen hundred and eighty 7
An esquire of Arragon, named Michel d’Orris, sends challenges to England. The answer he receives from a knight of that country 13
John of Montfort, duke of Brittany, dies. The emperor departs from Paris. Isabella queen of England returns to France 39
The duke of Burgundy, by orders from the king of France, goes into Brittany, and the duke of Orleans to Luxembourg. A quarrel ensues between them 42
Clement duke of Bavaria is elected emperor of Germany, and afterward conducted with a numerous retinue to Frankfort 45