octaues of the natiuitie of S. John Baptist, and when they had remained
there two daies they passed foorth to the citie of Lion; [Sidenote: An.
Reg. 2.] where the two kings departed in sunder, and each one kept his
iournie, the one toward Guenes, where his nauie was appointed to come to
him, and the other to Marseilles, there to méet with his fléet,
according to his appointment. [Sidenote: The English fléet staied by
contrarie winds.] But the English ships being let and staied by the way
by contrarie winds and rigorous tempests, which tossed them[5] to and
fro vpon the coasts of Spaine, could not come in any conuenient time
vnto Marseilles, [Sidenote: Twentie gallies & twelue other vessels saith
_Houed._] so that king Richard thinking long to tarrie for them, &
perceiuing they could not kéepe their appointed time, he hired ships
from all places thereabouts, and embarking himselfe and his men in the
same, [Sidenote: Vpon the seauenth day of August saith _Houeden_.] vpon
saint Laurence euen, sailed foorth towards Sicile, where he was
appointed to méet with king Philip.

[Sidenote: _Rog. Houed._] Here is to be noted, that king Richard made
not all that iourneie from Marseilles to Messina by sea, but sundrie
times comming on land, hired horsses, and rode foorth alongst the coast,
appointing with his ships and gallies where to meet him, and sometimes
he rested certeine daies togither in one place or other as at
Portdelphin, at Naples, and at Salerne, from whence there departed from
him Baldwine archbishop of Canturburie, Hubert bishop of Salisburie, and
the lord Ranulfe de Glanuille, the which taking vpon them to go before,
with prosperous wind and weather in short space landed at Acon, which
was then besieged, as you shall heare hereafter.

At Rome the king came not, but being within the streame of the riuer of
Tiber, there came to him a cardinall named Octauianus, bishop of Hostia,