The chains are taken away from the streets of Paris. The Parisians are kept in great subjection. Other royal edicts are proclaimed. The duke of Burgundy holds a grand conference with his nobles in Arras, who promise to serve him against all his enemies. He marches thence to lay siege to the town of Compiegne. The king of France marches his army from Compiegne to Soissons, which he besieges and takes by storm: it is pillaged and destroyed.
The king, after the capture of Soissons, marches to St Quentin, and thence to Peronne to facilitate his entrance into Artois. The duke of Burgundy places garrisons in different towns and castles. The king of France marches his army from Peronne to besiege Bapaume. The inhabitants of Arras fortify their town very strongly, and burn and destroy several handsome edifices which were around it.
Charles king of France, having reduced Bapaume to his obedience, marches to lay siege to Arras, and to subject that city to [Pg vii] his power. The duke of Brabant and the countess of Hainault visit the king of France when before Arras, and negociate a peace for their brother the duke of Burgundy and his allies.
The treaty of peace concluded at Arras, which was the fifth, is read in the presence of the duke of Aquitaine, and several other princes of the blood-royal, and the oaths that were taken in consequence. Sigismund of Bohemia is elected emperor of Germany, and receives the oaths of the greater part of the lords of that country. The death of Ladislaus king of Naples.
His rival king Louis sends the marshal of France to Naples, and other matters. The duke of Burgundy, on the king's departure from before Arras, marches a force into Burgundy.
