CH. VI.—A Digression concerning the Advantage which the Knowledge of Letters, and more especially of History, is to Princes and great Lords 115 CH. VII.—The Occasion of the King being seized and secured in the Castle of Peronne by the Duke of Burgundy 118 CH. VIII.—A Digression, demonstrating that when two great Princes meet in order to adjust their Differences, such Interviews are generally more prejudicial than profitable 121 CH. IX.—How the King renounced his League with the Liegeois, to be released out of the Castle of Peronne 127 CH. X.—How the King accompanied the Duke of Burgundy in his Expedition against the Liegeois, who were formerly his Allies 145 CH. XI.—Of the King’s arrival in Person with the Duke of Burgundy before the City of Liege 148 CH. XII.—How the Liegeois made a desperate Sally upon the Duke of Burgundy’s Quarters, where both he and the King were in very great Danger 152 CH. XIII.—Of the storming, taking, and plundering the City of Liege; together with the Ruin and Destruction of the very Churches 156 CH. XIV.—How King Louis returned into France by the Consent of the Duke of Burgundy; and how the Duke treated the Liegeois and the People of Franchemont afterwards 159 CH. XV.—Of the King of France’s Subtlety, by which he prevailed with his Brother Duke Charles to accept of the Duchy of Guienne, in lieu of Brie and Champagne, and contrary to the Duke of Burgundy’s Intention 163 BOOK THE THIRD. CH. I.—How the King took an Occasion of making a new War upon the Duke of Burgundy; and of his sending as far as Ghent to summon him to appear by a Serjeant of the Parliament 167 CH. II.—Of the Delivering up of the Towns of St. Quentin and Amiens to the King; and upon what Grounds the Constable and others fomented the War between the King and the Duke of Burgundy 171 CH. III.—How the Duke of Burgundy took Picquigny; and the Means he found out to make a Truce with the King for a Year, to the great Dissatisfaction of the Constable of France 175 CH. IV.—Of the Civil Wars between the Princes in England during the Difference between Louis XI. and Charles, Duke of Burgundy 181 CH. V.—How the Earl of Warwick, by the Assistance of Louis, King of France, drove King Edward IV. out of England, to the great Displeasure of the Duke of Burgundy, who received him into his Countries 187