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The Feat of Arms at St. Inglebert’s

The Feat of Arms at St. Inglebert’s.jpg The Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of WarwickMiniaturesThe Knight-Errant’s SquireThe Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of WarwickMiniaturesThe Knight-Errant’s SquireThe Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of WarwickMiniaturesThe Knight-Errant’s SquireThe Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of WarwickMiniaturesThe Knight-Errant’s SquireThe Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of WarwickMiniaturesThe Knight-Errant’s Squire

For an actual historical example of the tournament in which a number of knights challengers undertake to hold the field against all comers, we will take the passage of arms at St. Inglebert’s, near Calais, in the days of Edward III., because it is very fully narrated by Froissart, and because the splendid MS. of Froissart in the British Museum supplies us with a magnificent picture of the scene.