[1] 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, to whome he spake manie reprochfull words of the co|uetousnesse vsed in the court of Rome (a vice repu|ted the common nursse of all mischéefes,King Richard blameth the court of Rome for couetous|nesse. as one ve|rie well noteth,
Bicause they had receiued seauen hundred marks for the consecration of the bishop of Mauns, and 1500. marks for the confirming of the bishop of Elie the popes legat. And againe no small summe of monie they had receiued of the archbishop of Burde|aux, when vpon an accusation brought against him by the cleargie of his prouince he should haue béene deposed. In the meane time whiles king Richard thus passed forward towards Messina, the nauie that was appointed to coast about Spaine and to méet him at Marseilles, was tossed (as before is said) with wind and tempests, and a part thereof, that is to wit, ten ships driuen here and there on the coasts of Spaine, of which number nine arriued at Lisbone and the tenth being a ship of London arriued at the citie of Sylua, which was then the vttermost citie of [page 124] Spaine, that was inhabited with christians.Vbi auaritia est, habitant fermè omnia ibidemFlagitia, impietas, periuria, furta, rapinae,Fraudes at doli, insidiae & proditiones,Iurgia & infandae caedes, &c.)