on his return from the Holy Land. But when earl Richard saw that there were no means of turning the king from his design, he agreed to cross the sea with him, and prepared in a magnificent manner for the passage. And encouraged by his t example, many other nobles prepared to make the passage, in company with the king and the aforesaid earl. The guardian-. ship of the kingdom, therefore, being entrusted to Walter, archbishop of York, because he was considered a man of sin-j gular discretion and fidelity among all the nobles of the king-. dom ; the lord the king, accompanied by his queen, and by ji his brother, earl Richard, with seven other earls, and about three hundred knights, embarked on board ship, on the fifteenth ι of May, and set sail, steering his course towards Bourdeanx. ι About this time, Alexander, king of Scotland, married Margaret, the daughter of Ingelram de Coucy, a powerful and : cruel baron of the kingdom of France. But while the lord t the king was passing his time in the countries beyond the sea, a certain nobleman, an Irishman by birth, namely, William de Marais, who was a banished man, and a fugitive on account of some crime of which he was accused, seized on the island of Lundy, which is not far from Bristol, where he practised ail kind of robbery and piracy. At last, being taken prisoner, with seventeen of his companions, he was sentenced to a cruel death, and, by command of the king, he and his seventeen companions were all dragged at the tails of horses to London, and there hanged on a gallows. And his father, one o f the most powerful nobles of Ireland, by name Godfrey de Marais, when he heard this, fled into Scotland, though he could scarcely find a safe refuge even there; and wasting away through agitation and grief, he soon afterwards ended his miserable fife by a wished-for death. About the same time, several nobles died, namely, Gilbert de Gaunt, Baldwin Wak, Philip de Kyne, and in the north, Roger Bertram, with several other illustrious men, departed this life, and were discharged from all human distresses. There died also, the earl of War wick, a man of great power, and very illustrious family. About the same time too, one of the sons of the emperor Frederic, by name Henry, who, as his evil conduct well deserved, had been for a long time kept in prison by command of his father, breathed forth his miserable life. For it is said, that he himself, being weary of his life, did with his ow n hand miserably slay himself.