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Title: Belt and spur : stories of the knights of the middle ages from the old chronicles
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Seeley, E. L. (Emma Louisa)
Subjects: Middle Ages -- History Chivalry
Publisher: New York : Scribner and Welford
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en dwelling in Ghent. ThenKing Philip of France sent to the Pope, and certifiedhim that King Edward would not cross the sea, butthat either he would be killed or captured. And hestirred up the Scots to rise and make war in England,and sent into Flanders about thirty thousand armedmen, and forty thousand foot-soldiers, nobly arrayed,to destroy the islands of Flanders, because the noblesof Flanders had sworn faith to King Edward. Butthe Flemings sent to the King of England that heshould come to them quickly with aid, or it would benecessary for them to yield to King Philip, and theCount of Flanders and Queen Philippa with herchildren would be taken. Then King Edward, understanding the purposeof the King of France, made his fleet assemble withall speed to carry him over into Flanders, and putto sea, having with him Henry de Burghersh, bishopof Lincoln, a man of nobility, wise in counsel, ofrare boldness, and great strength, and well knownfor his retinue of strong men. And there came also
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SEA-FIGHTS. 169 Henry, the noble young Earl of Derby, afterwardsthe first Duke of Lancaster, and the Earl of North-ampton, the Earl of Gloucester, the Earl of Hunt-ingdon, and many of the great men of the kingdom.And thus, on the vigil of St. John the Baptist, aboutthe third hour, that is, on Friday, King Edwardand his ships came to the coasts of Flanders nearBlanckenburg, and there they saw all the ships of thenavy of France lying in the port of Sluys. ThenKing Edward sent Lord Reginald dc Cobham, SirJohn de Cundy, and Sir Stephen de Laburkin, toexplore and reconnoitre the fleet in its array ; andthey, riding along the land, came so near to it thatthey could see well the apparelling of it, and theysaw about nineteen ships greater and more excellentthan they had ever seen before ; one of which, for itsexcellence, was named the Christopher. And theysaw besides two hundred ships of war in the waternear the land, arrayed in three lines, with othersmaller boats and barges. The next day, t

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