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Philip II. of France , in Order to jointheir Forces for the Recovery of Jeru-salem, was busied in making Prepara-r tions for the Expedition, when a pri-vate Quarrel between Richard, theKing’s Son, and Raymond, Earl ofsThoitlouJe, occasion’d a fresh Rupturebetween the two Kings, which was fo-mented by Richard. On this AccountHenry went over to France, in theMonth of July, and landed at On. APeace was, however, concluded aboutthe latter End of June, of the ensuingYear, very much to the Prejudice ofHenry, who was betrayed by his ownSons; (See the Perms of it in Hoveden)

But he did not long survive it. He 1 189.shortly after fell sick at Chimn, wherehe died, on the sixth of July, as it is . „generally believed, of Grief, for the fifth.hard Ulage he had met with from hisbeloved and youngest Son, John ; (??)after having reigned four and thirtyYears, eight Months and nineteen.

Days ; (M. Paris fays, seven Monthsana five Days) ever in Troubles, fromwhich he, however,generally extricatedhimself with Glory and Success. He wasburied at Fontevraud, where, upon hisTomb, were these two Lines :

Sujjicit hie tumulus cui non fujfecerat or his,Reshrevis ejl amp]a cui suit ampla brews.

CHAP. VI.

Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, with several otherEvents, during the Reign of King Richard I.

R ICHARD I, furnamed Coeurde Lion, (or, Lion’s Hearts) onAccount of his Intrepidity, wasthe eldest Son, then living, of the de-ceased King Henry I si and he succeed-ed him accordingly. Having engagedhimself by Oath, to go, in Conjunctionwith Philip II. King of France, to theHoly IFar, Richard made the necessaryPreparations for it (soon after his Coro-nation, which was in the Beginning ofSeptember') (a) in the very first Yearof his Reign. For that End, he raisedvast Sums of Money, levied a consider-able Army, and for the fake of it neg-lected all his other Affairs. As thiswas' the first grand Expedition of theEnglish, after the Conquest, and that ofwhich we find the most exact Account,in History, I shall be as particular inmy Relation of it as the Room I havewill-allow. All our ancient HistoriansI peak, some more, some less, of this

, (*) Some few Hours before he died, he saw aList of the Names of those, who had conspiredagainst him, with the King of France, and his SonRichard , and finding his Son John to be the firstamong them, he fell into a very extravagant Pas-sion, cursing his Sons, and his own Birth, andin that Fit of Anger departed the World.

(a) See a particular Account of the Ceremo-ny of his Coronation in a Manuscript in the Cot-ton Library, Claudius , C. IV. 8 . and in some otherManuscripts of the fame Library : As likewise inHoveden an&Diceto, who were Eye-witnesses of it.

(/;) It is, likewise, very probable that he did,upon this Occasion, as his Successors did long af-terwards, hired Ships of the Genoese , and others,and, as we find Phi lip-August, of France, now did,whose Historian fays; Januam venit, iibi naves,

Expedition. Vinifauf in his Itinerari- 1189.um Regis Anglorum, Richardi, & alio-rum, in terr am Hierosolymorum, gives themost copious Account of it. Of thatWork I have had the Use of two Copies,one printed in Gale ’s Collection, and theother in Manuscript, in the Cotton Li-brary. Besides these I have con-sulted the other Historians mentionedin the Margin, and from them all col-lected the following Account. Richard,to comply with his Engagement, fittedout a Fleet, consisting of upwards of one Hoveden-Hundred Capital Ships, and about fifty Brompton-Gallies, partly in England, and partly in Diceto.his Dominions in France, (b) The Com-mand of this Fleet he entrusted to theArchbishop of Auxerre, the Bishop ofBayonne, Robert de Sabul, Richard deCamvile, and JVilliam de Valerun, withOrders to fail to the Mediterranean, andwait for him at Marseilles, (c) EveryThing being ready for the King’s De-parture,

& ca quœ erant vidlui necejjaria cum armament!sdiligenti[ft me parari feat.

( c ) The Laws and Ordinances appointed byKing Richard for his Navy being pretty singular,I shall mention them, as we find them in our an-cient Historians : " (1.) He who killeth any Per-“ son on Ship-board, was to be tied with him that" w a s slain, and thrown into the Sea: (2.) And" “ he killed him on Land, he was, in like Man-“ ner, to be tied with the Party slain, and to be“ buried with him in the Earth. (3.) He that£t was convicted, by lawful Evidence, to draw" "is Knife, or Weapon, with an Intent to“ strike any Man, or that had struck any one, to" the drawing of Blood, was to lose his Hand." ( 4 -) Also, he who struck any Person with his" Hand, without Effusion of Blood, was to be“ Ponged Lto the Sea threeTimes. (5.) He who

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