KING RICHARD THE FIRST ad. 



1191. 

 subjects of the land were constrained to yeelde them- 

 selves to the King, and at last the daughter of the 

 Emperour, and the Emperour himselfe, whom king 

 Richard caused to be kept in fetters of gold and silver, 

 and to be sent to the citie of Tripolis. 



These things thus done, and all set in order touching The Lord 

 the possession of the He of Cyprus, the keeping whereof Chamberkine 

 he committed to Radulphe sonne of Godfrey Lord ^t^!^^, 

 Chamberlaine, being then the first day of June upon the 'H^^loJ^f 

 fift of the saide moneth, king Richard departed from the C'^pms. 

 He of Cyprus, with his shippes and gallies toward the 

 siege of Achon, and on the next morrowe came to Tyrus, 

 where by procurement of the French king he was re- 

 strained by the Citizens to enter. The next day after, 

 which was the first day of June, crossing the seas, he met 

 with a great carak fraught with souldiers and men ot 

 warre to the number of a thousand and five hundred, 

 which pretending to be Frenchmen, and setting foorth 

 their flagge with the French armes, were indeede Saracens, A great ship of 

 secretly sent with wilde fire and certaine barrels of un- Saracens taken 

 knowen serpents to the defence of the towne of Achon, ^-|^^ ^^^ ^^ ' 

 which king Richard at length perceiving, eftsoones set 

 upon them and so vanquished them, of whom the most 

 were drowned and some taken alive : which being once 

 knowen in the citie of Achon, as it was a great discomfort 

 to them, so it was a great helpe to the Christians for 

 winning the citie. 



The next day after which was the seventh of June, King Richard 

 king Richard came to Achon, which at that time had arrived at 

 bene long besieged by the Christians. After whose ^'^^'°"- 

 comming it was not long, but the Pagans within the 

 citie, seeing their wals to be undermined and towers 

 overthrowen, were driven by composition to escape with 

 life and limme, to surrender the citie to the two kings. 



Another great helpe to the Christians in winning the 

 citie, was this. In the said city of Achon there was a 

 secret Christian among the Saracens, who in time of the 

 siege thereof used at sundry times to cast over the wals 



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