[1] Soone after, the English nauie departed from Lisbone, and came vnto the mouth of the riuer of Taie, betwéene Caperico and Belem, where the same daie on saint Iames éeue the lord William de Forzdulerun arriued also with thrée and thirtie other ships,The English ships méet togither. and so then they were in all about an hundred and six sailes verie well furnished and manned, and so from thence taking their course towards Marsci|les, finallie they arriued there in the octaues of the assumption of our ladie; and staieng there an eight daies (till they had repaired such things about their ships as were néedfull) they set forward againe, and came to Messina in Sicile in the feast of the exaltati|on of the crosse. On the sunday following also came the French king thither, hauing lost no small part of his nauie by tempests of weather.