PLATE XXVI.
EDWARD III. BEFORE RHEIMS.
The present Plate represents King Edward the Third before the city of Rheims, whence it appears his followers proceeded to pillage the country round to a considerable distance in every direction, which our chronicler naïvely terms, “seeking adventures.” After seven weeks, the siege was abandoned, without attempting any serious assault; and the scene of operations transferred to Troyes and other places in Champagne, where a similar mode of warfare was carried on. The illuminator has bestowed extraordinary pains in the enrichment of the tents and in delineating the cannon and other preparatives for a siege. This Plate is from the fine Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris.
Interview on the Thames between Richard II. and the Insurgents.