hap. VI. from the Conquest, to the Death oj A, Mary

11 8g. parture, he embarked at Dover, on theGees eleventh of December, and passed overf 1 ranee. t0 to Calais. He had an Interview withthe King of France at Fed S. Remi,where the two Kings entered into an Al-liance, and agreed to meet again, at theHead of their Armies, at Fezelai.rad y- T h e solemn Form of Oath taken

by the two Kings, upon this Occasion,was as follows: " That either of them" should defend and maintain the Ho-" nour of the other, and bear true Fi-" delitj unto him, of Life, Membersand worldly Honour, and that nei-" th er of them should fail one the other" in their Affairs: But the French King" should aid the King of England, in" defending his .Land and Dominions," as he would himself defend his ownCity of Paris, if it were besieged: and" that Richard King of England, like-" wife should aid the French King in" defending his Land and Dominions," no otherwise than he would defend his" own City of Roan, if it were besieged,&c. See the Form in Latin in M. Paris.The Earls and Barons of both Kingdomslikewise sworeFealty to their respectiveKings, and promised they would notenter into or abet any War in their King-doms during their Absence. And theArchbishops and Bishops promised, bythe Word of Truth, to excommunicatethose who should break or contravenetheir Oaths. The two Kings fartherengaged, that if either should die duringthe Voyage, the other should have hisMony and Men, for the Service of God.

11 9o. After the two Monarch s had con-certed whatever they thought necessary,to accomplish their Designs, at Vezelai(where, according to Finifauf the Trea-ty of Alliance was concluded) theymarched together to Lyons, their unitedArmy consisting of above a HundredThoufandMen,and then separated. Hen-^ ry marched with his Troops for Mar-~^ t h lr ^j 3 s es Jeilles, where he hoped to find his Fleet;'JJ°P S to but was disappointed. A violent Stormar seilles, had so dispersed the Ships, that theywere not able to rejoyn : And one Partbeing forced, by Stress of Weather, intoPortugal, was constrained to serve thatKing, and assist him to relieve the City

of Sant ar en, then besieged by the A- 1190.fricans. The King waited for themeight Days; but being impatient to beat MeJJina, in Sicily, the general Ren-dezvous of the Croijes, he hired twenty s r ' r

Gallies, and ten great Busses; and, hav- ‘ aing embarked Part of his Troops, witha great Number of Pilgrims whom hefound there, on board of them, he setSail from Marseilles for Sicily, about theSeventh of August. His Fleet arriv-ed at Marseilles about fourteen Days af-terwards. Some Accident having de-tained Richard, at Anchor, at the Mouth,of the Fy her, his Fleet, with the Re-mainder of his Army, joined him there,and they arrived together at MeJJina,about the twentieth of September, wherethey found Philip arrived before them.

Richard, at his Arrival at MeJJina, foundhis Sifter, the Queen Dowager of that Where heIsland, imprisoned; But Ihe was im ~Sfss somemediately released, and sent to him. oanta S es -He insisted, however, on a farther Satis-faction, which Fancred, King of Sicily,delaying he seized a Castle and a Mona-stery,near MeJJina. (d) And afterwards,up-on fresh Provocations, and an Expulsionof all the Englijh from that City, onOccasion of a Quarrel with a Woman,about the Price of a Loaf of Bread, heassaulted it, and took it by Storm.

This Action, (which, fays Finifauf vinisauKwas performed in less Time, than aPriest could have fung his Mattins) hap- Takes Mes-pened in the Night, between the fourth sina *and fifth of October. A considerableBooty fell to the Share of the EnglijhSoldiers, the Sicilian Gallies were burntto Ashes, in the Harbour of MeJJina, andthe French had the Mortification to feethe Englijh Banners and Colours, dis-played on the Walls and Turrets of thatCity. This raised such an Envy andIndignation in Philip, as had nearbroke out into an open Rupture, be-tween the two Kings, and Fancred,Kmyof Sicily, blowed the Coals; But the Dif-ference was happily composed beforetheirDeparture from this UFnd.Richard’sDispute with Fancred was likewise, at And com-Length, made up, by thatPrince’s oblig-A””^ing himself to pay him forty Thousand King of Si-Ounces of Gold, in full for his Sister’s ctly?

Dowry,

“ spoke any opprobrious or contumelious Words,“ in reviling or cursing another, for so often as he" reviled, was to pay so many Ounces of Silver.“ (6.) A Thief, or Felon, that had stollen, being

“ lawfully convicted, was to have his Head shorn,“ and boiling Pitch poured upon it, and Feather“ or Down strewn upon the fame, whereby he“ might be known, and so at the first Landing-“ place they came to, to be set on Lhoar.

G) At Messina King Richard made a Lawconcerning Shipwrecks, by which it was ordained, Erompton.that whoever was fhipwreck’d, and got safe on Hoveden.Shoar, should enjoy all his Goods But if hedied on Ship-board, his nearest Heirs were tohave his Goods. On the contrary, if he had noHeir? the King was to have his Effects.