'218 ANHALS OF ROGER DE HOTEDEN. A.D. 1191. day, the king of France again asked the king of England to agree to his return home, but he could on no terms obtain his sanction to his withdrawal, unless he should first swear upon the Holy Evangelists that he would well and faithfully protect the territories and subjects of the king of England until his return, and would inflict no injury or grievance upon them, or allow the same to be done by any one else. After this, the king of France appointed the duke of Burgundy chief of his army, giving up to him a great part of his treasure. Before his departure, he also gave to Baymond, prince of Antioch, one hundred knights and five hundred men-at-arms for the defence of his territory against the pagans, and gave to each of the knights forty marks of sBver as his pay from the feast of Saint Michael until Easter, appointing Robert de Quincy their governor and captain. The king of England also, on the same day, gave to the prince of Antioch five great ships, laden with horses, arms, and provisions. On the thirtieth day of the month of July, the king of France and the king of England divided among themselves all the pagans who had. been captured at Acre. On the thirty-first day of the month of July, that is to say, on the last day of that month, on the feast of Saint German, the king of France departed from Acre, and, taking with him Reginald, bishop of Chartres, and Peter, count de Nevers, went to Tyre ; whither he also took Karakois and aB the other pagans be longing to him, and made a stay there of two days. On the third day of the month of August, the king of France left Tyre, giving into the charge of the marquis Conrad aB his pagan prisoners. On the same day, the king of England caused his ships to be laden, saying that he would go to Ascalon to lay siege to it, and ordering aB to foBow him. On the fifth day of the month of August, the king of England sent Hubert Fitz-Walter, bishop of SaBsbury, to Tyre, for the pagans whom the king of France had taken thither, in order that he might bring them back; but Conrad refused to let them go. On his return, he related to the king the answer he had received from Conrad, on which the king was enraged, and swore that he would personally go to Tyre for the purpoee of bringing them away by force, unless Conrad should speedily let them go. On this, the duke of Burgundy made answer to the king, saying : " My lord, aBow me to go, and I wiB bring them back ; " and accordingly, he went and brought them back. For the day that had been named was now approaching upon