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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke streightwaies caused the house where he was lodged, to be set about with armed men, Ra. Niger. and sent other into the house to apprehend him. He being warie that he was descried, got him to his weapon: but they aduising him to be contented, and alledging the dukes commandement, he boldlie answered,

that sith he must be taken, he being a king, would yéeld EEBO page image 136 himselfe to none of the companie but to the duke alone, and therefore if it would please him to come, he would yéeld himselfe into his hands.
The duke hearing of this,K. Richard submitteth himselfe to the duke of Austrich. spéedilie came vnto him, whom he meeting, deliuered vp his sword, and committed him vnto his custodie. The duke reioising of such a preie, brought him vnto his palace, and with gentle words enterteined him, though he meant no great good to|wards him, as well inough appeared in that he com|mitted him to the keeping of certeine gentlemen, which without much courtesie looked streightlie i|nough to him for starting awaie, in somuch that they kept him in cold irons (as some authours doo write. N. Triuet. ) He was taken after the maner aforesaid in December vpon S. Thomas éeue, in the yéere of our Lord 1192. and in the fourth yeare of his reigne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polychron. The duke of Austrich owght the king no good will, bicause he had cast downe his ensignes pitcht vp in a turret at Acres, which he had woone at the verie time when that citie was deliuered by the Sara|cens: for while they were in tretie on the one side, the duke on the other,The cause of the displeasure betwixt the duke of Au|strich & king Richard. not knowing anie thing thereof, gaue the assault vnto that part of the towne which was appointed vnto him to besiege. And so being entred the towne, and perceiuing that by treatie it was to be deliuered, he retired into the turret which he had first woone and entred, and there set vp his standard and ensignes, which king Richard (as the Dutch writers affirme) comming thither, threw downe and trode vnder his féet.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ger. Dor. But Geruasius Dorobornensis declareth this mat|ter somewhat otherwise, as thus. After that the said citie of Acres was rendred into the christian mens hands (saith he) diuerse lords tooke their lodgings as they thought good, and hanged foorth their ensignes. And as it chanced, the duke of Austrich placing him|selfe in one of the fairest palaces of all the citie, put foorth his ensigne, whereof king Richard being wa|rie, came thither with a companie of hardie souldiers about him, and threw downe the dukes ensigne, so displacing him out of that so pleasant and beautifull a lodging. For this cause, and also surmizing that king Richard should be guiltie of the death of the marques, Rog. Houed. Conrade the duke of Austrich shewed such discourtesie towards him. But concerning the mut|ther of the marques, the chéefe gouernour of those Saracens called Assassini cleared king Richard by a letter written and directed vnto the duke of Austrich in manner as followeth.

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