for a theefe, and at the next arriuall of the ships to any land,
be put foorth of the companie to seeke his aduenture, without all
hope of returne vnto his fellowes.

These were the statutes which this famous prince did enact at the first
for his nauie, which sithens that time haue been verie much inlarged.
About the same time John Bishop of Whiterne in Scotland, suffragane to
the church of Yorke, ordeined Geffrey archbishop of Yorke, préest.
[Sidenote: _Wil. Paruus._] At the same season also the election of the
same Geffrey was confirmed by pope Clement, who among other things that
he wrote to the chapiter of Yorke on his behalfe, in the end he addeth
these words: "We do therefore admonish you all, and by the apostolicall
bulles command you, that you exhibit both reuerence and honour vnto him
as vnto your prelat, that thereby you may appeare commendable both
before God and man. Giuen at Lateran in the nones of March and third
yeare of our gouernment."

Whilest these things were in dooing, there came into France legats from
the said Clement, to mooue the two kings to make all the spéed possible
towards their iourneie, bicause of the great danger wherein things stood
in Palestine, requiring present helpe. Herevpon king Richard (his men
and prouision being readie) commanded that his ships should set forward,
[Sidenote: _Polydor._ King Richard set forward on his iournie. _Rog.
Houed._] & to coast about by the streicts of Giberalterre to come vnto
Marseilles, where he appointed to méet them, and so with a chosen
companie of men he also set foorth thitherwards by land, and comming to
Tours, receiued the scrip and staffe as a pilgrime should, at the hands
of the archbishop there.

After this, both the kings of England and France met at Vizeley in the