fear he should dethrone or kill him, had him arrested and thrown into prison, where he was secretly put to death, and then he took possession of all the fortune his wife and children might have had left to them. An example of this happened while I was in that country ; for the sultan had imprisoned those who, by their valour and address, had made prisoners of the counts of Montfort and Bar ; and from envy and jealousy, and from his dread of them, had them put to death. He acted in like manner to the Boudendars, who are his subjects ; for when they had defeated the king of Armenia, and came to inform him of the event, they found him hunting wild beasts. Having dismounted to make their obeisance, and thinking, as they had behaved so well, they should be recompensed, he eyed them maliciously, and said he should not return their salute, for they had made him lose his chase ; and ordered their heads to be struck off. To return to our subject. The sultan, lately deceased, had left a son, who was twenty-five years old, well informed, prudent, and already full of malice. The last sultan, fearing he might dethrone him, kept him at a distance from his person, and bad given him a kingdom in the East; but the moment his father was dead, the admirals of Babylon sent for him, and made him their sultan. On taking possession of his dignity, he deprived the constable, marshals, and seneschalβ of his father of their golden wands, and the offices which they held, and gave them to those whom he had brought with him from the East. This caused great discontent in those who bad been removed, as also in those of tbe council of his late father, who suspected strongly that he would act by them, after seizing their wealth, in the same manner as the sultan had done by those who had taken the counts of Montfort and of Bar, as already related. They therefore unanimously agreed to put him to death, and found means of obtaining from those called La Hauleca, who were the sultan's guard, a promise to murder him. After the two battles I have mentioned, which were marvellously sharp and severe, the one on Shrove-Tuesday, and the other the first Friday in Lent, another great misfortune bcfel our army. At the end of eight or ten days, the bodies of those who had been slain in these two engagements,