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The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 03 [of 13]

Chapter 40: FOOTNOTES:
By Enguerrand de Monstrelet
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A chronological chronicle of late medieval political and military affairs that records violent factional struggles between rival noble houses, episodes of foreign occupation and subsequent expulsions, and the attendant campaigns, sieges, and skirmishes across the realm and neighboring regions. It blends battlefield reports, diplomatic correspondence, royal councils, proclamations, and local incidents into an episodic narrative of shifting alliances, betrayals, and negotiations, while noting civic interventions and the practical effects of prolonged conflict on towns, fortresses, and aristocratic households.

'In testimony of which, we have to these presents affixed our seal.—Given at Paris, the 10th day of February, in the year of Grace 1413, and of our reign the 33d[37].' Thus signed by the king, on the report of the great council, held by the queen and my lord of Acquitaine. Countersigned, 'Derion.'

This edict was proclaimed in Amiens, and afterward in the provostships, and throughout the bailiwick by commission from the said bailiff.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] Arriere-ban,—'a proclamation, whereby those that hold of the king by a mesne tenure are summoned to assemble and serve him in his wars,—different from ban, whereby such are called as hold immediately of him,—also the whole troop of those mesne tenants or under vassals so assembled.'

Cotgrave's Dict.—See 'Ban' and 'Arriere-ban.'

[37] There is the most extraordinary confusion of dates throughout these state-papers, which it is, probably, utterly impossible to rectify by any conjectural emendations: but it seems right to take some notice of the circumstance, as at first sight it appears a most culpable oversight. It is not only here but throughout the book that this confusion prevails, as is very evident from the challenges of the arragonian esquire in the beginning of the volume.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

AT THE HAFOD PRESS,
BY JA. HENDERSON.

Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.