[...]of this country, though it is certainly the more accurate. Froissart used a contemporary document proceeding from the pen of one "John the Fair," a canon of Liege. Of the lesser authorities some are contemporary: notably Baker of Swynford, and Villani, who died shortly after the battle. But the whole bulk of material at our disposal is pitifully small, and the greater part of what the reader will have set before him in what follows is the result of an expansion and criticism of the few details which writers of[...]."
