[1] Now the king (after he had gathered a great por|tion of monie, and ordeined diuerse things for the be|hoofe of the common-wealth, thereby to satisfie the harts of the people) prepared himselfe to saile into Normandie. Rog. Houed. But first he reconciled the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of Elie lord chancellour, as|well for the apprehension & imprisoning of the arch|bishop at Douer, as for the dishonourable expulsion of the chancellour out of England, in such wise that the chancellour should vpon reasonable summons giuen to him by the archbishop, sweare with the hands of an hundred préests with him, that he neither commanded nor willed that the archbishop should be apprehended. The controuersie betwixt the two archbishops about the bearing of their crosses, the king would not meddle withall, for (as he said) that perteined to the pope. Yet the archbishop of Cantur|burie complained to king Richard of the iniurie doone to him at that present by the archbishop of Yorke, presuming within his prouince to haue his crosse borne before him. At length when the kings prouision was once readie for his voiage into Nor|mandie, he came to Douer, and hearing that the French king had besieged the towne of Uernueil, and that the same was in danger to be taken, he tooke the sea togither with his mother quéene Elia|nor on the ninth daie of Maie,The king transporteth ouer into France. and transporting ouer into Normandie, arriued at Harfléet with an hun|dred great ships fraught with men, horsses and ar|mour.