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&i2 Account of the last Days and Death of Richard 11. [Jan 1, 
kill me; his father, and. all of my council, 
Ha, my godfather, Monsieur Saint John 
Baptist!* when I pardoned him, all 
- his treasons against me, and would not 
believe my uncle his father, who: two or 
three times had condemned him to die! 
Alas, I acted like a fool; ha! very dear 
mother and lady, Madame the queen of. 
France, I commend inyself to you! Alas! 
I had proposed shortly to come and see 
you, and to bring to you Isabel, your 
daughter, my dear lady and love, who 
has a great desire to see you. Ha! most 
dear brother, noble dauphin of Vienne, 
alas! I see clearly that 1 shall never 
sbehold you! Ha! brother in law Louis 
Duke of Touraine,} and you my sisters 
Of France,was Isabel, my very dear com- 
panion, with you at Paris! Alas! if-I 
was assured of her safety, J should die 
more lightly and more easily! Ha, my 
anost dear father, have pity on my very 
dear wife, Isabel, your daughter;'ha! all 
noble lords of France, such enormous 
treason as my own kindred and relations 
have done to me, was never done to any 
of the noblekings of France! I beg you 
wery humbly, if it pleases you to assist and 
comfort my very dear father and lord the 
moble king of France, all times and as 
many times, as it pleases him to take 
vengeance, which God grant that he may 
do, and very summary as the case de- 
mands. Ha! my very dear sister and 
Jady, and dear companion Isabel of 
France, surely if I could see you once, 
before Idied, surely I should die more 
easy, and take death with more inclina- 
tion.” 
[We see by this that the unfortunate 
prince, had at least seme sensibility: we 
also see that he was more attached to 
France, than then (so Monsicur Galliard) 
was proper for a king of England. } 
The Duke of Lancaster, being inform- 
ed of events by the Earl of Northumber- 
jand, advanced to Flint Castle, with all 
his urmy, amounting nearly to twenty- 
four thousand men. Richard saw him 
from the terrace walks, at the top of the 
castle, where he was taking the air. At 
this sight, he was much affected: he 
groaned, and tears fell from his eyes: he 
sah en Regn RE ON pe ahi a eT eS 
* This is mew very ridiculous: but the 
stile and expressions of the original must be 
adhered to literally. 
"4. This perpetual use of the title is rather 
Sinzular. Addresses by the plain surname oc~ 
kur in a contemporary. Froiss. vii. 62, and 
‘@libi. The author is evidently a Frenchman, 
ter they still use the prefixes of Mons, Mors. 
Ja Gomtc, &c, upon ali occasions, ~ 
said to his companions, ‘ My friends, the 
hour advances, when we are to be deli- 
vered to our mortal enemy.” Lancaster 
drew up his army around the castle, with 
such @ 10ise of trumpets and instruments, 
that it seemed as if the castle would fall, 
and even thunder could not have been 
heard. 
Whilst the king was at dinner, some 
inquisitivé persons of the duke’s suile, 
came into the hall, every minute, to see 
the king, and said to bis people and the 
other lords, “ Eat hearty and make a good 
dinner, (menez bonne fete); for, by Saint 
George ! you will all very soon have your 
heads cut off.” After dinner, the meet- 
ing between the king and the duke took 
place. The king, making an effort to re- 
ceive him graciously (bien traiter); sa- 
Juted him and said, “A welcome return 
to you.” “TI have returned sooner than 
you expected, that I should, (said the 
duke); [ ain come to help you to govern 
the kingdom; for these twenty-two years 
that it has been under your management, 
you have not acted to.the pleasure of the 
naticn.” He afterwards spoke to all the 
lords in the suite of the king, the Earl 
of Salisbury excepted. During the stay 
of the Duke of Lancaster at Paris, Rich- 
ard bad sent Salisbury to prevent the 
duke’s marriage with the daughter of the 
Duke of Berry: in consequence of this 
commission, Salisbury thought it his 
duty not to see the Duke of Lancaster 
at Paris. ‘The duke therefore caused it 
to be signified to him at Flint, that, as 
little as he had condescended to say to 
lim at Paris, so little should be said in 
return at Flint. The duke made the 
king mount horse, and dragged him in his 
retinue to Chester, where he put him in 
the custody of the son of the Duke of 
Gloucester,* and of the Earl of Arundel, 
saying to them, “ Here is the murderer 
ot your fathers: he is here to answer for 
it toyou.” ‘They, in order to deprive him 
of his last consolation, separated him 
from his friends, who with tears embraced 
him and withdrew, while immoveable 
with agony, and sinking under the op- 
pression of his misfortunes, he was nei- 
ther able.to weep or speak. . 
[Froissart mentions several interesting 
particulars in this solemn crisis of Rich- 
ard’s unhappy history. Among the rest, 
(vol. xii. 141.) the following curious and 
beautiful incident. | Greyhounds. were 
the favourite dogs of the era, and when 
* He lett no som, only a daughter, and 
heiress, wife of William Earl of Eu, Bolton's 
Bxtinct Peerage, 120. Editors. 
they 
