“containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy : of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English : their expulsion thence : and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII., and continued by others to the year MDXVI”