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Title: Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)

Author: Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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[Illustration: _The Battle of Poitiers
from the painting by H. Dupray
(See page 52)_]

THE HARVARD CLASSICS

EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LLD

CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE

FROISSART--MALORY--HOLINSHED

WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

"DR ELIOT'S FIVE FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS"

1910

BY P.F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

THE CHRONICLES OF FROISSART, TRANSLATED BY LORD BERNERS
EDITED BY G.C. MACAULAY

The Campaign of Crecy
The Battle of Poitiers
Wat Tyler's Rebellion
The Battle of Otterburn

THE HOLY GRAIL BY SIR THOMAS MALORY
FROM THE CAXTON EDITION OF THE MORTE D'ARTHUR

A DESCRIPTION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM HARRISON FOR HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES

CHAPTER

I. Of Degrees of People
II. Of Cities and Towns
III. Of Gardens and Orchards
IV. Of Fairs and Markets
V. Of the Church of England
VI. Of Food and Diet
VII. Of Apparel and Attire
VIII. Of Building and Furniture
IX. Of Provision for the Poor
X. Of Air, Soil, and Commodities
XI. Of Minerals and Metals
XII. Of Cattle Kept for Profit
XIII. Of Wild and Tame Fowls
XIV. Of Savage Beasts and Vermin
XV. Of Our English Dogs
XVI. Of the Navy of England
XVII. Of Kinds of Punishment
XVIII. Of Universities

THE CHRONICLES OF FROISSART

BY

JEAN FROISSART

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF MANY OF THE BATTLES OF THE HUNDRED YEAR'S
WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

_INTRODUCTORY NOTE_

Jean Froissart, _the most representative of the chroniclers of the
later Middle Ages, was born at Valenciennes in 1337. The Chronicle
which, more than his poetry, has kept