Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.

In the meane time, king Richard concluding a league with Philip king of
France, receiued all those places againe which were taken from his
father by the same Philip, togither with his wife Adela, whom vpon
suspicion that she had beene dishonested in hir person before, without
anie sufficient proofe thereof had, he forsooke, & sent hir home with
hir dowrie, and otherwise with great and princelie gifts, most
bountifullie inriched, hauing alreadie concluded a marriage with the
ladie Berengaria, daughter to Garsias king of Nauarre, who was sent into
Sicill vnto hir sister Joane, that he might marrie hir there, as he
passed that waie towards the holie land.

Whilest these things passed thus in these parties, the christians in the
holie land dailie sent hither for aid, [Sidenote: The 2. kings of
England & France determine to go into the holie land] wherevpon the two
kings of France and England tooke counsell togither, and determined with
all conuenient speed to ioine their powers, & with ships prepared for
that purpose to saile into Syria. Hauing thus concluded, they went about
to prepare themselues of necessarie prouision for so long a iournie. Now
when king Richard had set in order his affaires in Normandie and France,
he came ouer into England, [Sidenote: At Southhampton the 21 of August
saith _Ger. Dor._ _Rog. Houed._ _Matth. Paris._] landing at Portesmouth
the 13. of August. With him also came his brother John, vnto whom he
assigned the castels of Marlebridge, Lutegareshall, Peake, Bollesour,
the honor of Wallingford, Tikehill and Eie, with the earledoms of
Mortaigne, Dorset, Sumerset, Notingham, Derbie, Deuonshire, and
Cornewall, with the earledome of Lancaster, intituling him earle of the
same, whereby he was so exalted in state and degree, that he séemed in
manner of a tetrarch, hauing as it were a fourth part of the realme in