KING RICHARD THE FIRST ad. 



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thanks, who of his goodnesse had even now given us the 



victory. We are right glad likewise that some of your Certaine noble 



maiesties princes and nobles accompanied us in this ^^J^rft^^kmg 



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action, who are able to report unto you all thmgs which /,,^;-^ ,^/^^ ^^^ 



have happened. And albeit we were exceedingly grieved Emperor in 

 for the losse of our people; yet thought it we expedient his battell 

 to signifie unto you the successe of our affaires, as unto J^i^^ithe Sol- 

 our welbeloved friend, & one who is very neerly allied '^^^-^ <:omum. 

 unto our highnesse Imperial, by reason of the con- 

 sanguinitie of our children. Farewell. Given in the 

 moneth of November, and upon the tenth Indiction. 



The v^oorthy voiage of Richard the first, K. of 

 England into Asia, for the recoverie of 

 Jerusalem out of the hands of the Saracens, 

 drav^en out of the booke of Acts and Monu- 

 ments of the Church of England, written by 

 M. John Foxe. 



Ing Richard the first of that name, for his great 

 valure surnamed Ceur de Lion, the sonne of 

 Henry the second, after the death of his father 



remembring the rebellions that he had undutifully raised 

 against him, sought for absolution of his trespasse, and 

 in part of satisfaction for the same, agreed with Philip the [II. i. 21.] 

 French king to take his voiage with him for the recoverie 

 of Christes patrimonie, which they called the Holy land, 

 whereupon the sayd king Richard immediately after his 

 Coronation, to prepare himselfe the better towards his 

 journey, used divers meanes to take up summes of 

 money, and exacted a tenth of the whole Realme, the 

 Christians to make threescore and ten thousand pounds, 

 and the Jewes which then dwelt in the Realme three- 

 score thousand. 



Having thus gotten sufficient money for the exploite, 

 he sent certaine Earles and Barons to Philip the French 

 king in the time of his Parliament at S. Denis, to put 

 him in mind of his promise made for the recoverie of 



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