age
"Per suas patenas de patriotis," &c. The passage
seems to him altogether corrupt.]

The reader's especial attention is here called to the confusion of
facts and dates, the mistakes historical, geographical, chronological,
biographical, with which this short section abounds to the overflow.
It will perhaps be difficult to find a page in any author, ancient or
modern, more full of such blunders as tend to destroy confidence in
him, when he records as a fact what is not found in any other writer,
nor is supported by ancillary evidence. The MS. states that all these
events took place in the thirteenth year of Henry IV: the MS. writes
it at length, "Anno decimo tertio," which began on the 20th September
1411. Now, allowing to the writer every latitude not involving
positive confusion, it is impossible for us to suppose, when he (p. 436)
crowds all these events within one year, that he had any such
information on the affairs of England as would predispose us to regard
him as an authority.

1. The first application by the Duke of Burgundy for English
auxiliaries was in August 1411; and the battle of St. Cloud (the place
which the MS., evidently ignorant of its situation and name, calls
Senlow) was fought on the 10th of November 1411. The Duke of Orleans,
at the beginning of the following year, 1412, made his application to
the English court for aid against the Duke of Burgundy, but it was not
till the 18th of May 1412 that the final treaty was concluded between
Henry IV. and the Duke of Orleans; and it was not till the middle, or
the latter end of August 1412, that the Duke of Clarence was
despatched to aid the Duke of Orleans; and he remained in France till
he received news of his father's death, in April 1413; when, and not
before, he returned to England after his expedition to aid the Duke of
Orleans.[326] Yet all these events are stated in the MS. to have
fallen within the same year.[327]

[Footnote 326: The Duke of Clarence was at
Bourdeaux, February 5, 1413, and signed an
acquittance there, April 14, 1413. (See Rymer; and
Additional Charters.)]

[Footnote 327: The words are written in one MS. at
length, "decimo tertio."]

2. The MS. says that the English, after their victory over the Duke of
Burgundy's forces, returned to England at the time of vintage. The