number; he received notice, That the Saxon petty Kings in his ab∣sence
had cast off their Allegiance, and being vnited, invaded his Coun∣try,
insomuch, that his Queen, Son, and those that he had left in
charge with the Kingdom, being overthrown in a pitched battel, were
fled to the fastnesses of Snow down Mountains. Which News
greatly perplexed the King; so that having made his Offering at the
Holy Sepulchre, and constituted Religious Men to keep it, he with
three parts of the Army he brought, returned to his ships, the other
part being either slain in the battel, perished by sickness, or left in the
Garrison; yet e're he could imbarque, 27000 Turks, Sarazens, and
Aegyptians, lying in ambush in a Wood for that purpose, fell upon the
Rear of his Army, and cut off three or four hundred Brittains and Danes
e're the King with the Gross of his battel could draw up to their re∣lief;
yet fatal was it to the Infidels; for being unexpectedly Inclosed
by the Christians, who fetch'd a compass behind divers little Hills,
they were almost all of them cut off.
This second overthrow given, the King quietly imbarqued his
Souldiers, and sailing by divers Islands, destroyed the Garrisons
possessed by the Infidels: When one day going on shore on the Pro∣mentory
of Carthage, with a few of his Knights, he was set upon by
four hundred Moors, who sallyed out of Tunis; but such was his and
his Knights invincible Courage, that they drawing their swords,
slaughtered the Barbarians in such a manner, that they fled with great
crys, taking them to be more than mortal; whereupon the King cau∣sing
8000 men instantly to come on shore, besieged the City, and with
Wild-Fire burnt it about the Barbarians Ears, putting many of them
to the sword: And then marching up farther into the Country, there
came against them sixteen huge Lyons, bred in the Muritanian Forrest,
with whom the King and twenty of his Knights encountering, killed
twelve, and put the other four to flight.