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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 177 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 138)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Pope also being aduertised of the taking of king Richard, was much offended, Polydor. that anie christi|an prince, hauing taken vpon him the defense of the christian faith against the infidels, should be so vsed in his returne from so godlie an enterprise: and there|fore sent both to the duke of Austrich, and to the em|perour, requiring them to set him at libertie. But the emperour declared plainlie that he would be an|swered for such summes of monie as king Richard had taken out of Sicile before he would release him or set him at libertie.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 178 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 138)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When king Richard perceiued that no excuses would serue, though neuer so iust,The bishop of Salisburie sent into En|gland. but that he must néeds paie to his couetous host some great summe of monie for his hard interteinment, he sent the bishop of Salisburie into England, to take order with the barons of the realme to prouide for the paiment of his ransome, which bishop (as yée haue heard) after the peace concluded with Saladine, went vnto Ierusa|lem to visit the holie sepulchre, and now comming into Sicile, as he returned homewards, had know|ledge there how king Richard was taken prisoner in Austrich, and remained in the emperours hands: wherevpon he turned that waie foorth, and comming to him, was now sent into England with commissi|on (as I haue said) to leauie monie for the kings ran|some. He landed bere the twentith day of Aprill, by whose comming the land was the sooner brought in quiet: for the agréement which earle Iohn tooke (as before yée haue heard) was cheefelie procured by his meanes. For till his comming, Ger. Dor. the castell of Wind|sore EEBO page image 139 was not woone, the siege being but slackelie fol|lowed by the archbishop of Rouen, who had diuerse of his fréends within it, and therefore was not verie earnest against them.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 179 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 139)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Rog. Houed. The bishop of Elie commeth to the king.When the bishop of Salisburie was departed to|wards England, the bishop of Elie came to the king and trauelled so earnestlie betwixt the emperour and him, that finallie the emperour (partlie through his suit, & partlie for that he had beene verie much called vpon by the pope and other for his deliuerie) tooke or|der with him for the redéeming of his libertie, and ap|pointed what summe he should pay for his ransome,

The emperor agréeth with king Richard for his ran|some.

N. Triuet, Matt. Paris.

which (as some write) was two hundred thousand markes: other saie that it was but 140 thousand marks of the poise of Cullen weight. But William Paruus, who liued in those daies, affirmeth it was one hundred thousand pounds, and Roger Houeden saith an hundred thousand marks of Cullen poise, to be paid presentlie at the kings first comming into Eng|land, and fiftie thousand marks afterwards, that is to say, thirtie thousand to the emperour, and twentie thousand to the duke of Austrich, as it were in re|compense of the iniurie done to him in the holie land; where king Richard ouerthrew his ensignes: and for the same to deliuer sufficient suerties.

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