NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES. 



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Reginald Cobham, and the others who 

 are about your son are vigorously at- 

 tacked by the French, and they entreat 

 that you will come to their assistance 

 with your battalion, for, if numbers 

 should increase against him, they fear 

 he will have too much to do." The king 

 replied : " Is my son dead, unhorsed, or 

 so badly wounded that he cannot sup- 

 port himself?" "Nothing of the sort, 

 thank God," rejoined the knight, "but 

 he is in so hot an engagement that he 

 has great need of your help." The king 



answered, " Now, sir, return to those 

 who sent you, and tell them from me 

 not to send again for me this day, nor 

 expect that I shall come, let what will 

 happen, so long as my son has life ; and 

 say that I command them to let the boy 

 win his spurs, for I am determined, if it 

 please God, that all the glory of the cla\- 

 shall be given to him, and to those into 

 whose care I have entrusted him." The 

 knight returned and related the king's 

 answer, which mightily encouraged 

 them. 



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