CHAP. XXVI. A SQUIRE OF NORMANDY, CALLED ROBERT THE HERMIT, HAVING DECLARED HE HAD SEEN A VISION, WHILE AT SEA, ORDERING HIM TO INTERFERE IN MAKING A PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, IS SENT TO KING RICHARD AND HIS UNCLES TO THIS EFFECT. AT this period, a valiant and prudent fquire returned home to France : he had travelled much beyond fca, and his voyages and travels had gained him great renown, both at home and abroad, wherever they were known. This fquire was from the country of Caux in Normandy, and his name was Robert Menuot*, but he was called Robert the Hermit. He was of a religious and holy life, of fair fpeech, and might be about fifty years old. He had attended the conferences at Lculinghen between the lords of France and Eng-land, where his difcourfes had been well Men-ed to. When Robert left Syria m return home, he em-barked at Baruth, but had when at fea a furious tcmpeft, fo that, for two days and a night, he and his companions were in fuch danger they thought they muft be loft. ' Perfons in fuch peril are gene- • Jtofcrt Menuot. , MSS, Menaou rally 175