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Excerpt from John of Gaunt: King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, Seneschal of England
Finally, i have to thank the Duke of Beaufort for permission to reproduce the picture of John of Gaunt inhispossession;thesocietyoiantiquariesandtheir Assistant Secretary, Mr. St. John Hope, for lending me acast Oi thegreat Seal of Castile, and the Duke of Nor thumberland for his courtesy in placing at my disposal themanuscript in thelibraryof Alnwick Castle, an extract fromwhichisprintedintheappendix. Whichihavemadeoutoithemovementsofjohnoi Gaunt, a valuable corrective to the inaccuracies of the Chronicles, but this I hope to publish separately.
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