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 Contents and List of Citations xxix PAGE 196. Bacon prophesies marvelous progress in science. . . 461 Epistola fratris Rogerii Baconis de secretis operibus artis et naturae, et de nullttate magiae; Brewer's ed., 523 sqq. CHAPTER XX THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR I. Froissart's Account of the Battle of Crdcy 197. The great battle between the French and the English. 466 FROISSART, Chroniques, cc. 128 sqq. ; trans, based upon that of Lord Berners made in the time of Henry VIII given in the Globe ed. of The Chronicles of Froissart, ed. by G. C. Macaulay, pp. 102 sqq. II. How King John of France was captured at Poitiers 198. The capture of King John 470 Ibid. cc. 164 and 168; Globe ed., pp. 128 sq. and 131 III. Devastation wrought by the Hundred Years' War 199. Sack of Limoges (1370) 472 FROISSART (as above, No. 197), c. 283; Globe ed., p. 201 200. How the count of Arundel burned a town. . . . . 474 (a) DENIFLE, La desolation des eglises, monasferes et hopi- taux en France, 1897, I, 27, No. 95. (b) Ibid. I, 275, No. 600 201. Conditions in the time of Charles VII 474 THOMAS BASIN, Histoire de Charles VII et de Louis XI, in Denifle, op. cit. I, 514 sq., No. 999 IV. The Vision of Piers the Plowman 202. Extracts from Piers Plowman 475 LANGLAND, Vision of Piers Plowman, passus vi, v, vii ; done into modern English by Miss Kate M. Warren, Lon- don, 1899 V. Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the Swiss 203. Charles the Bold and the Swiss 477 PHILIP DE COMMINES, Memoires, Liv. vi, c. 12, and Liv.v, c. 2; trans, in Bohn Library, II, 84 sq., I, 303 sqq., and 311 sq. VI. Louis XI of France 204. Character and troublous death of Louis XI .... 481 Ibid. Liv. vi, c. 12, and c. n ; Bohn trans. II, 80 sq., 70 sq., and 75 sqq.