found at Bremeridge Farm, Wedbury, Wilts. 131 



1369. He married Margaret, heiress presumptive of Flanders. 

 Edward III. resumed the title of King of France, which title ac- 

 cordingly reappears on his coins. 



1371. David II. had come to England in 1363 to negotiate for 

 the succession of Edward's third son Lionel to the Scottish throne, 

 and was then cordially received and recognised as King of Scotland, 

 Shortly before his decease in 1371 he issued gold nobles in Scotland, 

 in imitation of those of England.^ 



1375. Great festivities and tournaments, lasting four days, were 

 given at Ghent by the Duke of Burgundy. 



1377. Decease of Edward III. and accession of his grandson 

 Richard II. 



1384. Philip the Bold becomes Count of Flanders by the de- 

 cease of Louis de MMe,* and assumes the style which appears on his 

 nobles. 



1399. Richard II. deposed, and succeeded by Henry IV. 



1404. Philip the Bold dies, and is buried with great pomp in the 

 Carthusian Church which he had founded at Dijon. His magnificent 

 tomb was taken to pieces in consequence of an order of the Commune 

 in 1793 for its destruction ; but it was put together again in 1818 

 without much injury, and is now in the Museum at Dijon.^ His 

 widow survived him one year, and was buried in the Isle of Flanders. 



1417. 5 Henry V. The nobles of Flanders, " vulgarly called 

 Bourgoigne nobles,'' are forbidden, under penalty, to be received in 

 England, as being of less value than those now coined in England.* 



* " Pinkerton's Essay on Medals," vol. II., pi. ii. 



^ " At the same time [1384], the burghers' old foe, Louis de Male, Count of 

 Flanders, perished by an obscure death, probably in a brawl with the Duke of 

 Berri. Flanders then fell into the hands of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 

 who had it in right of Margaret his wife. He was wise and conciliatory, restored 

 the Flemish liberties, and was himself more a Fleming than a Lily prince. And 

 thus the foundations of the great Burgundian Dukedom, stretching in a cui-ve 

 from the sea round the whole northern and much of the eastern frontier of France, 

 were securely laid." Kitchin's " Hist, of France," 1873, vol. i., p. 482. 



' "Hist, de Bourgogne," above cited, t. iil., p. 204. Murray's " Handbook of 

 France." 



* See Appendix B. 



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