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The Duke sAustria af-fronted byRichard.

Vinisauf.Brompton.Diceto.Hoveden.M. Paris.The King ojFrance de-parts :

But firsttakes anOath to Ri-chard :

Hoveden.

And leaveshim TenThousandMen.

Rich. I. Naval Expeditions, fkc. of the English, Book:!

same Conditions; And besides, wouldnot only sufficiently pay and reward theseSuccours, but would restore Man forMan, for all who stiould die in his Ser-vice. Such an Opinion had this greatand powerful Prince of the ChrtjlianTroops. His Proposal was, hovever,rejected.

One Circumstance of this famous^ Siege must not be ommitted, tho’ in it-self trivial, because of the Consequen-ces, which were fatal to Richard. Leo-pold, Duke of Auftria, having, in anAssault upon the Place, made himselfMaster of one of the Towers, causedhis Banner to be erected upon it. Ri-chard, who took this Action as an Affrontoffered to him and King Philip, becausethey commanded in Chief, ordered itto be taken down and trod under Foot.Leopold was highly affronted at thisUsage;But concealed his Resentment, ’till aproperer Opportunity of strewing it.Which,unhappily sot Richard,{oon offer-ed, as we shall fee in the Sequel. ThisSuccess was soon followed by many o-thers, and had not the Jealousy and En-r vy of Philip determined him to leavethe Army, not being able to bear theSuperiour Renown, which Richard hadacquired, by his personal Valour, and ofwhich he had given very manyProofs atthe Siege of Acres, they might, withEase, have pursued their Conquest tothe Recovery of Jerusalem.

One of the Articles between Ri-chard and Philip was, that neither shouldquit the Expedition without the Consentof the other. Richard, not knowingwhat Design Philip might have upon hisDominions, refused to consent to hisDeparture, before they were Mastersof Jerusalem. He left him, however,at Length, to his Will, upon his swear-ing a solemn Oath, in the Presence ofthe Bistiops, and chief Officers of boththeir Armies, that he would make noAttempt upon any Place, belonging toRichard, either in PLngland or "France,till forty Days after that Monarch ar-rived in his own Dominions.

Philip left Palestine the thirty-firstof July, with fourteen Gallies, andwent to Pyre. He left, however, tenThousand Men behind him, under theCommand of the Duke of Burgundy, towhom he, inPublick, gave Directions toshew the same Obedience to Richard aswas due to himself. It is, nevertheless,reasonably infer’d from many Circum-stances, that he gave him other Instruc-tions in private; For he afterwards did,

as much as lay in his Power, to obstruct 119 t «Richard's Glory, and blast his Designs.

T o give a particular Account of the 1192*several Advantages Richard obtained Advantagesover the Infidels, after Philip left the f^chard^Army, is foreign to my present Purpose; ter his De-I shall, therefore, only observe, in gen e-P arture -ral, that the first Thing he resolved up-on was the Siege of A.fca!on, to which vinisauf.he marched, with hisTroops, along the Brompton.Sea-ffioar, whilst his Fleet, which was ^ ic ^ ris 'well stored with allManner of Provisions,for tenDays, kept within Sight of them,and supplied their Necessities. Saladineinterrupted the March with a numerousArmy, some say of three HundredThousand Men, which, by the Valourand good Conduct of Richard, was en-tirely defeated, near a Town calledAJjur, and forty Thousand Men killedon the Spot. The taking of AJcalon,

Joppa, and Cajarea, and the Defeat of j^p a ^ 5 an nseveral Parties of the Infidels, were the other?laces-,Consequences of this Victory ; But Sala-dine dismantled these Places before hedoned them, and thereby obliged Ri-chard to lose some Time in their Repa-ration.

A n odd Adventure happened to Ri- j„ odd Ad*chard while he was at Joppa , which had venture hap-very near proved fatal to him. Being,oneDay, fatigued with Hunting, he laid Brompton.himself down to sleep, under a Tree, Vinisauf.with only six Attendants. He wasawaked by the Noise of some SaracenHorse, near him. They being few inNumber, he immediately mounted, androde after them; But they retiring, andhe continuing the Pursuit, he was drawninto an Ambush. He defended himselfwith an undaunted Bravery, notwith-standing the unequal Number: But, atLength, four of his Companions beingslain,he must have been killed or taken,had not William de Parcellis, (or ,D’Ef-preaux ) one of the remaining two, criedout, in their own Tongue, I am the{Melech or) King of England. The Sa-racens immediately left Richard, to seizethe imaginary King, and he took thatOpportunity to ride off. D'Efpreauxwas carried Prisoner to Saladine, towhom he discovered the Deceit. Thisgenerous Prince, instead of gratifyinghis Resentment on him for the Disap-pointment, highly applauded his Fide-lity, and treated him with great Distinc-tion. He made Richard, however,give ten Emirs, or Saracen Princes, inExchange for his Ransom.

R 1 c h a r d’s next Design was uponJerusalem 3 the chief End ot theExpedi-

tion ;