Note 5 — Chapter XLV · Sir John Norwich escapes from Angoulême, when that Town surrenders to the French.

But it is to be hoped that every young reader of Froissart will heartily despise such cunning. This act of Sir John Norwich was mean and small beyond all decent words; for he took the basest advantage of the Duke of Normandy’s honorable confidence in his fidelity to the sacred obligations of a truce.—Ed.