RRANGE, 
of ? Englan nd, "The ‘overnment of ‘Fests oil Hg 
hands of the king’ s eldeft. as aft 
king rail the title of 
a. prince. now: Put fifteen 
years of ag 
aoe 
REP 
. ie 
et the affairs of the ftate fo well con- 
them i in his Se and rarely i inter- 
portant occa fior ons. ter the 
difbanded foldiers, having no regular employment to which 
their attention, united under chiefs of their 
When 
Surope. the re would have 
1efe 
d made cae crufade, but the 
and hauede. were loft- on found 
again in the ‘hear’ ts of kin 
Charles V.. oy fucceflor ms John, delivered France’ from 
rth, it ought to be 
30,000 ye ee goi make 
manded of | wad Pope mg ion ab(olation oa their fins, 
‘200,000 frarics to. defray the expences of their journey. 
“The former, as ‘it ot nothing, was readily granted, and the 
‘money was, after a little delay, raifed by a tax on od Peoples 
which, however, Guefelin refufed to accept, g that 
‘the whole fum of ete as wall as the. pineal ‘benediGtion, 
ardi 
fome of the p 
rarely ; eee ed | 
cr til 
§ ary operations ever 
‘nora who obtained the title of 66 Wife,” did every thing 
in his power to banifh ignorance from his kingdom, and to 
diffufe through it a i for learning. He = 
refpeét for thofe by whom it was cultivated, and who were 
denominated. “ clerks.”?. “ Thefe,’’ faid he, in ce true {pirit 
of patriotifm, annot be‘too, much ‘honoured 3 while 
wifdomi. is dion ed the kingdom will profper ; when it is 
banithed, i it will fall to ruin. ” ‘This monarch. was the foun- 
der of that immenfe library. that is now the glory of the 
em ire, and - it is faid the moft atifying prefent 
at ‘coi Ibe n a] Es rk Sehcht in 
the fciences. ag far ‘as they’ were then known, which was the 
only ‘relaxation that,he allowed himfelf from the cares of 
mé He died too foon for his country, at ‘the age 
id’ ucceeded by hig fon Charles VI. who 
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a 7: 
Je 
ewed great 
‘could, aan pa mapipne aie = fates? ‘The hiftory-of 
-is. 4 feries' of : amitous everits. ‘Cont 
aah ede: the «Taiws,. ‘alienations of. the-fuuda, ads il inpittie = 
ra ide aac the ‘fi gral ie agar of this réi ie 
‘the b ate of th next, Charles Vil. was fo ‘much 
s of his 
a breach, and. rallied in his own ase traope ready to abare 
He was, howeve ortunate, though 
arms, 
town left him by which he might fupport his power in the 
aaa ‘the ah ra was befieged, a country-girl, of 
and fince.celebrated by the 
title of the maid of Ota ‘prefented herfelf to the govers — 
nor, requefted that fhe might t be fent to the king, becaufe 
God _had revealed to her, that under her command the fege 
fhould be raifed. . She obtained’her defire, was prefented ” 
fal 
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ie) 
to Charles, headed his’ troops, and nobly per. d all that 
fhe had pte = oe with victory, and thinking -her- 
felf fup fe 1 
, fhe propofed i ate to Rheims, 
ak: at ae time it was in the han m 
verthelefs, fhe furmounted every: a. entered the city, 
caufed_ the king to be confecrated, and then requefted leave 
fr) pak erie! ‘accomplifhed her- miffion. -At len gth 
the and the treachery of a cape pores 
tre hea a the. ha nds f:the enemy,. who, icting, 
her many cruel para omufed a to he “rg alive iti 
the ee lace of Row the onlecration 6 
n 
ucceeded by 
sci one 7 na 
tions of 
a conqueror 
ood and faithful fub- 
or tr 
perpetrated hagas ne eels that-are {carcely to 
be redited. :By thefe he broke the {pirits of the French 
“tO, : but neither medicine, nor sae TS, 
pious proseiinty could — avert baa 
roke,  Hes-ex 
nor 
23 years. 
