Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    The two former circumftances muft needs fall out providentially: whether this laft of ‘anno 1360, was. defigned by Edward Ill. or no, (as remembering his former good hap) may be fome queftion: I am of opinion not. Where things are under a man’s peculiar concern, he may fix a time; but here was the French King concerned equally with the Eng- lifh,; and. many other. great perfonages inter- refted..,'To have tied them up. to his own auf- picious conceit of the day, had been an un- kind oppreffion, and would have brought the judgment of fo wife a:Prince into queftion : -we may conclude then, it was. meerly fortui- tous. And therefore to.the former obfervation concerning this famous Edward, give me leave toadd, Infuper hoc ipfo die (fibi commoda) Grandis Rex cum Galligenis, federa fecit idem, — An advantageous peace, on day felf-fame, his mighty Prince did with the Frenchmen frame. ‘A.memorable peace (foretold by Noftrada- Cz mus)
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