[1] Wil. Paruus. R. Houed. Matth. Paris. But by some writers it should appeare, that earle Iohn, immediatlie vpon conclusion of the first truce, came from the French king, and submitted himselfe to his brother, and by mediation of the quéene their mother was pardoned, receiued againe into fauour, and serued [...] after against the French king verie dutifullie, Rog. Houed. séeking by new atchiued enterpises brought about (to the contentation of his brother) to make a recompense for his former misdemeanor, re|puting it meere madnesse to make means to further mischeefe; for

—stultum est hostem iritare potentem

At malum maius tumidis, sibi quaerere verbis.

But at what time soeuer he returned thus to his bro|ther, this yeare (as Roger Houeden saith) he was re|stored to the earledoms of Mortaigne in Norman|die, R. Houed. and Glocester in England, with the honour of Eie (the castels onelie excepted) and in recompense of the residue of the earledoms which he had before inioied, togither with certeine other lands, his bro|ther king Richard gaue vnto him a yeerelie pension amounting to the summe of eight thousand pound of Aniouin monie. ¶ Now here to staie a while at mat|ters chancing here about home, Rog. Houed. Wil. Paruus. Matth. Paris. Polychron. I will speake some|what of the dooings of Leopold duke of Austrich, who as one nothing mooued with the pestilence and fa|mine that oppressed his countrie in this season, but rather hauing his hart hardened, began to threaten the English hostages that they shuld loose their liues, if king Richard kept not the couenants which he had vndertaken to performe by a day appointed. Where|vpon Baldwin Betun one of the hostages was sent by common agréement of the residue vnto king Ri|chard,Baldwin de Betun. to signifie to him their estate. King Richard willing to deliuer them out of further danger, sent with the same Baldwin his coosen, the sister of Ar|thur duke of Britaine, and the daughter of the em|perour of Cypres, to be conueied vnto the said duke of Austrich, the one, namelie the sister of Arthur to be ioined in marriage with the dukes sonne, and the other to continue in the dukes hands to bestow at his pleasure.