448 ANNALS OF ROGER DE HOTEDEN. A.D. 1177· violence committed, and consequently is the one for which amends should first be made. And further, as to the other side, he has ceased to have any right, if ever ho did have any such right. And this we are prepared to show by the abovenamed instrument, in which is contained a truce for ten years; wherefore, king Sancho makes complaint, because it is true, that king Alphonso has violated his promise made in the treaty aforesaid. For he has received injury within those ten years, by being deprived of the following castles, Eel, Legiun, Malvcrsin, and Portela. In addition to the above, the king of Navarre demands restitution by the king of Castille, of the sum of one hundred92 marks of silver, king Sancho, who now reigns over the kingdom of Navarre, hereby offering satisfaction to the king Alphonso, upon all his complaints, according to the arbitration of the barons of them both, or of the most serene king of England. And we affirm with confidence, that these acts, and the like to them, perpetrated in the face of such covenants and such truce, ought to be redressed before we come to any other article whatever of these claims. For this the law demands, this usage demands, this the canonical ordinances demand, this all right and justice demand. The things that we have said are here set forth in written characters, but shall be more fully and more copiously explained By word of mouth." When the above-named envoys of the king of Navarre had set forth the above, and other matters of a similar nature, and the envoys of the king of Castille did not contradict any of the allegations made by them, Henry king of England, son of the empress Matilda, the Holy Evangelists being produced in presence of all the people, ordered the said envoys of the king of Castille and the king of Navarre make oath, before he pronounced judgment, that their masters, namely, the king of Castille and the king of Navarre, would receive and strictly observe his award, both as to restitution as well as to the truce, and that if they should fail so to do, then they themselves would surrender their bodies into his hands and power. This being accordingly done, the earls and barons of the royal court of England adjudged that full restitution should be made to caeh of the parties above-named of what he had rightfully claimed. Accordingly, the king of England wrote to the above-named kings of Spain to the following effect :— 5 3 Probably, a mistake for a hundred thousand.