CHRONICLES

OF

ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET,

A gentleman formerly resident at Cambray in Cambresis;

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

CRUEL CIVIL WARS BETWEEN

THE HOUSES OF ORLEANS AND BURGUNDY;

OF THE POSSESSION OF PARIS AND NORMANDY BY THE

ENGLISH, THEIR EXPULSION THENCE, 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

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CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

CHAP. I.

JUDGMENT given against Jacques Coeur and the damsel of Mortaigne. Master

William Edelin, doctor of divinity, is publicly reprimanded at Evreux

CHAP. II.

The king of France sends an embassy to the king of Spain. He builds two

castles at Bordeaux to keep the inhabitants in subjection. The duke of York

imprisons the dukes of Somerset and Glocester. Other events

CHAP. III.

The marriage of the count de Charolois with the lady Isabella of Bourbon.

The duke of Burgundy returns from Germany, and is most honourably

received in the towns of Lille and Arras

CHAP. IV.

The duke of Burgundy lays heavy taxes on his estates, to defray his expedition

against the Turks

CHAP. V.

The bishop of Utrecht dies. The duke of Burgundy goes to Holland to

procure the election to the bishoprick for his bastard son David, then

bishop of Therouenne

CHAP. VI.

The count de Clermont, the lord de Loheac marshal of France, and other

captains, arrest the count d'Armagnac, and deliver him up to the king.

They put the archbishop of Auch in possession of his archbishopric. Other

events

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CHAP. VII.

The king of France is discontented with the dauphin, for going to the duke of

Burgundy without his consent. Pope Calixtus makes regulations respecting

the croisade against the Turks

CHAP. VIII.

The duke of Burgundy, with a large army, escorts his bastard son into Holland,

and puts him in peaceable possession of the bishoprick of Utrecht. He

besieges Deventer, and forces its inhabitants to obey the new bishop, which

they had before refused

CHAP. IX.

The duke of Alençon is arrested and thrown into prison. The Turks are

miraculously defeated in Hungary. Other events that happened in this

year of 1456

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