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3. He that shalbe convicted by lawfull witnes to draw 

 out his knife or weapon to the intent to strike any man, 

 or that hath striken any to the drawing of blood, shall 

 loose his hand. 



4. Also he that striketh any person with his hand 

 without effusion of blood, shall be plunged three times 

 in the sea. 



5. Item, who so speaketh any opprobrious or con- 

 tumelious wordes in reviling or cursing one another, for 

 so oftentimes as he hath reviled, shall pay so many 

 ounces of silver. 



6. Item, a thiefe or felon that hath stollen being 

 lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling 

 pitch powred upon his head, and feathers or downe 

 strawed upon the same, whereby he may be knowen, and 

 so at the first landing place they shall come to, there to 

 be cast up. 



These things thus ordered, king Richard sending his 

 Navie by the Spanish seas, and by the streights of 

 Gibraltar, betweene Spaine and Africa, to meete him 

 at Marsilia, hee himselfe went as is said to Vizeliac to 

 the French king. Which two kings from thence went 

 to Lions, where the bridge over the flood Rhodanus with 

 preasse of people brake, and many both men and women 

 were drowned : by occasion whereof the two kings for 

 the combrance of their traines, were constrained to 

 dissever themselves for time of their journey, appointing 

 both to meet together in Sicily : and so Philip the French 

 king tooke his way to Genua, and king Richard to 

 Marsilia, where he remained 8. dayes, appointing there 

 his Navie to meete him. From thence crossing over 

 to Genua where the French king was, he passed forward 

 by the coasts of Italy, and entred into Tiber not farre 

 from Rome. 



King Richard staying in Marsilia 8. dayes for his 



Navie which came not, he there hired 20. Gallies, and 



ten great barkes to ship over his men, and so came to 



Naples, and so partly by horse and wagon, and partly by 



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