Note 95 — Chapter I · —How the King of France cajoled the English after the Duke of Burgundy’s Death, for fear they should have interrupted him in the Conquest of the Territories belonging to the said Duke.—1477.
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John Coppenolle, a hosier of Ghent, “a man of no better condition than William Ryn, and nevertheless appointed steward to the king of France, with a pension of six hundred francs a year.” He was beheaded at Ghent on the 11th of August, 1491.