t m deliberation was requifite before any anfwer could be made. Upon this, the meeting broke up, and the clergy who had been affembled retired to their inns in the city of London. The citizens, learn* ing from them the caufe of the meeting, and the propofition that the king had made them, were gready angered • agaiiift him, for in England the belief in the pope of Rome was general Thçy faid,—c Tlys Richard of Bordeaux will ruin every thing, if he be fuffered to go on. His hçad is fq thoroughly French, he cannot difguife it ^ but z day may come when he fhall pay for all without having time to repent, and fo fhall thofe whtQ have been his advifers.' Things continued in thfs ft^te j and all his fbli-citations and remonftaances with his clergy to re-jnain neuter obtained not any attention. The king of France and his council were diffatisfied that king Richard had 'not inftantly determined his country to be neuter, but in truth he could not prevail with his clergy to do fo ; and fhortly af-ter there fell out fuch horrible events that the like are not to be found in this whole hiftôry, nor in that of any other Çhriftian kin*, • except that noble prince Lufignan, king of Cyprus and Jerufalem, ' whom his brother and the Cygriots villanoufly sundered. ' r ' 1 ; CHAP,