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And when the barons and knyghtes of y royalme of Portyngale, on y partye of y kyng that nowe is, sawe howe the kynge of Castell had raysed his syege, whiche had endured more then a yere, they toke then grete courage, and so dyd all the comons of the countrey, and specyally they of Porte,

Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812

The round table (barbarously painted) now hangs upon the western wall, but it needed little imagination to picture it set down in the midst, covered with a fair silken cloth ( 'the Kynge yede unto the syege Peryllous and lyfte vp the clothe, and fonde there the name of

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

M. frankes, a capytayne almayne, "who had a grete company with hym, called the erle Courant, '' wolde haue delyuered pope Vrban into y handes of pope Clement; wher - vpon syr Bernarde de la sale was sent to Auygnyon to pope Clement for y sayd some of money; but the pope nor the Cardynalles there coulde not make the money, for y popes courte was so poore, that they had no money; and so syr Bernarde de la sale retourned euyll content to the syege of Pruce f and so then they dyssymuled the matter, and the Prucyens in lykewy. se, and also this erle Courant;" * and so pope Vrban yssued out of Pruce "" and out of peryll, and wente to Rome and abode there.

Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812