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1364–1427 England
Thomas Elmham (1364 – in or after 1427) was an English chronicler. He wrote a history of the monastery of St.
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We who were the remnant of the people...raised our hearts and eyes to heaven, crying...for God to have compassion upon us, and...to turn away from us the power of the French.
Passing by the walled town of Peron on our left, we found the horsemen of the French army setting out from the town towards us, with the view of drawing us within the shot and missiles of the enemy, but our horsemen making a stand, they quickly fled into the town. After we had passed the town about a mile, we found the roads strangely trodden by the French army, as if they had gone before us in many thousands; and then we who were the remnant of the people, not to say of the more powerful, dreading the impending battle, raised our hearts and eyes to heaven, crying with voices of the deepest earnestness, for God to have compassion upon us, and of his unspeakable goodness to turn away from us the power of the French.
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