The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 11 [of 13] : $b 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 countriesMonstrelet, Enguerrand de
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 11 [of 13] : $b 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
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
On the 28th of January, the king, having a particular affection and
reverence for the exalted and devout virtues of St Charlemagne,
ordered, that henceforward his feast should on that day be celebrated,
which was done in the city of Paris like unto a Sunday, and continued
on every succeeding 28th of January.
The town of Nuys was revictualled by the Germans from Cologne, and
other places under the obedience of the emperor, notwithstanding
the duke of Burgundy had been so long before it, and had placed a
considerable fleet on the Rhine to hinder any reinforcements, or
stores, from entering the town. The duke's fleet was destroyed, and
from six to seven thousand persons, that were on board of it, were
killed or drowned. The Burgundians, before this, had suffered great
losses in the army that was besieging Nuys.
In the month of March, the king ordered four hundred lances from the
garrisons of Amiens, Beauvais, and other parts, to make an inroad on
the territories of the duke of Burgundy, to retaliate the damages done
by his partisans on the country round Roye, Peronne, and Mondidier, in
contempt of the truce. The royalists, in consequence, invaded Artois,
and advanced even to the suburbs of Arras, in which they lodged one
whole night. By means of flails, and portable windmills, they thrashed
and ground all the corn they could find in the barns throughout Artois
and Picardy; which, together with great numbers of cattle, prisoners,
and utensils, were carried off by Salazart and the other captains to
Amiens, and their different garrisons.
During this, the king never stirred from Paris, but kept his Lent
there, making good cheer, and, as he said, being healthy and well
satisfied. In this month, a youth, son to a brigandine maker, who had
been partly brought up by a fresh-water fisherman of Paris, named Jean
Pensart, knowing that this fisherman had acquired a large sum of money
by the sale of his fish during Lent, which he gained by purchasing
from different lords the produce of the ponds by wholesale, and being
instigated by the devil, entered the house of this fisherman, and
seeing where he kept his money, opened the door of the house after
midnight to three Scotsmen, in order that they might rob the said
Pensart. One was called Mortimer, surnamed the Esquire, and the name of
another was Thomas Clark. By the assistance of this youth, they carried
off the money, amounting to two thousand five hundred livres tournois.
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