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driven to the He of Creta, and there before the haven 

 of Rhodes cast anker. The ships that caried the kings 

 sister, queene of Sicily, and Berengaria the king of Navars 

 daughter, with two ships were driven to the He of 

 Cyprus. 



The king making great mone for the ships of his 

 sister, and Berengaria his wife that should be, not know- 

 ing where they were become, after the tempest was 

 overblowen, sent forth his gallies diligently to seeke the 

 rest of his Navie dispersed, but especially the shippe 

 wherein his sister was, and the maiden whom he should 

 marry, who at length were found safe and merry at the 

 port of Lymszem in the He of Cyprus, notwithstanding 

 the two other ships, which were in their company before 

 in the same haven, were drowned with divers of the 

 kings servants and men of worship, among whom was 

 M. Roger, called Malus Catulus, the kings Vicechan- 

 cellour, who was found with the kings scale hanging 

 about his necke. 



The king of Cyprus was then Isakius (called also the 

 Emperour of the Gryffons) who tooke and imprisoned 

 all English men, which by shipwracke were cast upon 

 his land, also invegled into his hands the goods and 

 prises of them which were found drowned about his 

 coastes, neither would suffer the ships wherein the two 

 ladies were to enter within the port. 



The tidings of this being brought to king Richard, 

 he in great wrath gathering his gallies and ships together, 

 boordeth the land of Cyprus, where he first in gentle 

 wise signifieth to king Isakius, how he with his English 

 men, comming as strangers to the supportation of the 

 holy land, were by distresse of weather driven upon his 

 bounds, and therefore with all humble petition besought 

 him in Gods behalfe, and for reverence of the holy 

 crosse, to let go such prisoners of his as he had in cap- 

 tivitie, and to restore againe the goods of them that were 

 drowned, which he deteined in his hands, to be employed 

 for the behoofe of their soules. And this the king once, 



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