THE NUMBER OF SLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF ROSEBECQUE, AND PURSUIT AFTERWARDS.--PHILIP VON ARTAVELD IS HANGED AFTER HE WAS DEAD 359 BOOK III. CHAPTER I. FROISSART SETS OUT ON JOURNEY TO BÉARN TO SEEK ADMISSION TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE COUNT DE FOIX 361 CHAPTER II. SIR JOHN FROISSART, IN HIS JOURNEY TOWARD BÉARN, IS ACCOMPANIED BY A KNIGHT ATTACHED TO THE COUNT DE FOIX, WHO RELATES TO HIM HOW THE GARRISON OF LOURDE TOOK ORTINGAS AND LE PAILLIER, ON THE RENEWAL OF THE WAR IN GUYENNE, AFTER THE RUPTURE OF THE PEACE OF BRETIGNY 363 CHAPTER III. FROISSART CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY.--IN TRAVELLING FROM TOURNAY TO TARBES, THE KNIGHT RELATES TO HIM HOW THE GARRISON OF LOURDE HAD A SHARP RENCOUNTER WITH THE FRENCH FROM THE ADJACENT GARRISONS 367 CHAPTER IV. SIR JOHN FROISSART ARRIVES AT ORTHÈS.--AN OLD SQUIRE RELATES TO HIM THE CRUEL DEATH OF THE ONLY SON OF THE COUNT DE FOIX 372 BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. THE DUKE OF BOURBON IS APPOINTED CHIEF OF AN EXPEDITION TO AFRICA, THAT IS UNDERTAKEN BY SEVERAL KNIGHTS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND AT THE SOLICITATION OF THE GENOESE 382 CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTIAN LORDS WEIGH ANCHOR, AND LEAVE THE ISLAND OF COMINO, IN ORDER TO LAY SIEGE TO THE TOWN OF AFRICA.--THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY CONDUCT THEMSELVES 387 CHAPTER III. THE CONDUCT OF THE SARACENS DURING THE SIEGE OF THE TOWN OF AFRICA.--THEY SEND TO DEMAND FROM THE FRENCH THE CAUSE OF THEIR MAKING WAR AGAINST THEM 398 CHAPTER IV. SOME MIRACLES ARE SHOWN TO THE SARACENS AS THEY ATTEMPT TO ATTACK THE CAMP OF THE CHRISTIANS.--SEVERAL SKIRMISHES DURING THE SIEGE.--THE CLIMATE BECOMES UNWHOLESOME, AND OTHER ACCIDENTS BEFALL THE BESIEGERS 403 CHAPTER V. A CHALLENGE IS SENT BY THE SARACENS TO OFFER COMBAT OF TEN AGAINST TEN CHRISTIANS.--THE SARACENS FAIL IN THEIR ENGAGEMENT.--THE TOWN OF AFRICA IS STORMED, BUT UNSUCCESSFULLY, AND WITH THE LOSS OF MANY WORTHY MEN 407 CHAPTER VI. THE SIEGE OF AFRICA IS RAISED.--THE CAUSE OF IT.--THE KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES RETURN TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES 414 CHAPTER VII. DEATH AND BURIAL OF KING RICHARD II .421 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE THE MONK SIR FROISSART IN THE BREACH OF THE MONASTERY WALL _Frontispiece._ LORD JAMES DOUGLAS THROWING THE HEART OF BRUCE AMONG THE SARACENS 45 HOW SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND HIS COMPANIONS CAPTURED THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH BY STRATAGEM 67 HOW THE FRENCH FLUNG A SERVANT OVER THE WALLS INTO AUBEROCHE 95