Rycharde the fyrst.
[ B] RIcharde the fyrst sonne of kynge Henry the seconde / was crowned kynge of Englande the .iii. day of Septembre / the yere of Chryst .M.C.lxxxix. This kynge ordayned in the citye of London two Baylyffes to be chosen yerely to gouerne the citye / whose names were.
- Henry Tornehyll
- Rycharde fitz ryuer.
¶Vpon the whiche day of his coronacyon because the Iewes presumed further than they ought / the people fell vpon them and droue them to theyr houses / & robbed and spoyled them without pyte / and brent some of theyr houses / that the kyng sent strayte cōmaundement to cesse the ryot / but because the nombre of the trespassours were so many / they escaped vnpunysshed.* 1.1 ¶In the be∣gynnynge of his reyne / wyllyam kynge of Scottes came to Caunterbury / and dyd homage to kynge Rycharde. This Rycharde toke vpon hym to warre agaynst Chrystes enemyes / & made great preparacyon of money and therfore he gaue ouer Berwyke and Rokysborowe to the kyng of Scottes for .x.M.li. and solde to the bysshoppe of Durham his owne prouynce / & made many bysshoppes and ryche preestes to pay great sommes of money.* 1.2 Also he had lycence of the pope to dispence with them that had takyn vpon them the crosse wherby he raysed moche money / & than commytted the rule of Englande to his chauncelour the bysshop of Ely / & than went into Nor∣mandye and mette with Philyppe kynge of Fraunce at Turon / whiche had promysed the same voyage. In whiche metynge they deuysed assurance for the contynuance of theyr iourney into ye holy lande: that is to say / that kynge Rycharde shulde passe by the see / and kynge Philyppe by the lande / and to mete agayne at Cycyll / where they mette accordynge to theyr apoyntement / where sone after a grudge began betwene the .ii. kynge for correctyon of theyr soudyours. wher∣fore kynge Philyppe departed / but kyng Rycharde entryd the lande of Cypres / & made so sharpe warre / that he toke the kynge of Cypres prisoner / and layde hym in bondes of syluer / because he had promysed he shulde nat be put in bondes of yron.* 1.3 After yt he sayled to Acon or Acres / where kynge Philyppe with his hoost lay and beseged the citye whiche than ioyously receyued kynge Rycharde / whiche bothe princes set vpon the citye of Acres / and wanne it.* 1.4 But sone after that / a greater grudge began betwene those two prynces. Some say the cause therof was for the partynge of the pryes gotten at the sayd citye of Acres / and some say it was for that that kynge Rycharde denyed to kynge Philyppe / halfe that whiche was gotten at ye citye of Cypres / whiche kynge Philyppe claymed by comenant made betwene them at Turon.* 1.5 And some say it was because that the erle of Champeyne departed from kynge Philyppe and forsoke to do hym plea∣sure / whiche erle kynge Rycharde receyued. And some say the cause of the varyaunce was for ye that kynge Rycharde beynge in Cycell / maryed the syster of the eynge of Nauerne / where he be∣fore had promysed to mary the syster of ye sayd kynge Philyppe. But what so euer was the cause of the grudge / trouthe it is that kynge Philyppe departed from Acres / & contynued his iourney tyll he came into Fraunce. Sone after this it was shewed kynge Rycharde / that the towne of Iapheth whiche was than in chrysten mennes handes / was beseged by one Salandyne / & lykely to be wonne. wherfore kynge Rycharde sayled thyther by water / & a nother hoost of Frenchemen and other whiche remayned there after the departynge of kynge Philyppe he sent them to Ia∣phethe by lande / & there by strength rescued the towne & wanne dyuers other holdes there nyghe /