Chronicles of the Crusades

I 1ni.1 AN INTERVIEW AGREED UPON. 25
frivoloos.espre~:jio~~s, t11e.y npplicd tl~e~;~sclucs to the weighty
n~atkrs. They consultetl dwut tho dcn~;rnJs of the cl~nucullor
;a d the counscl of the archlisl~op, that thcro shou[d bc
~uectingof tl~e~ri both, was ogm:t.l tv, nbont tllc mitldlc of
tlle day. Tl~eday was fiscJ for tllc lift11 of tllc C:L~CIII~.~ of
August ; the place witl~ont Winchester. Tlic cl~:~~t:r;.llu~~
allowed whnt tl~cyl i d settled to stmtl, nncl, linvi~~g bl.olie!~
up the siege, returned to London.
Sect. 41. The e:d, I~o\veucr, fenring his cr:~ftines.s, brought
thitller four tl~ousand Welsl~, tl~nl, if tlre cl~nnccllor sl~odcl
entlcavo~~r to take hi111 during the trncc, they, bciq !~l:wc!tl i ~ r
anibusl~ close beside the conference, might t11rv:wt 111s er~deayours
I)y :z s:~lly. Bloreover, 110colnun;lnfilctl tl~nt it ~li0111tl be
sr~n~lnonecl,nncl required tl~~t every one of his ~ncn, and
otllcrs, his ntlhere~rk, shot~lcl be p~-e])nrecl to go to bottlc,
sllould attend. him at the phcc a1111 on the clay of the eng,xemeut,
so thnt .w the interview between hill~self ancl the lurtl
of the wide Ian11 had been n~r~le~token, at least 11e niigtlt
escape dive, if he, who was more than a king, though less in
his eyes, should transgress apinst the law, or slloulcl not conseut
to nu nrrangcment. The chancellor, howevcr, on tl~c
other Ilancl, commanded that one-thircl of the soltlicry, with $11
tllc arms of' a11 England, sl~oulcl proceed to Wincllcste~- by the
day appoin tecl ; rnorcover, at the expcnsc of tile 1iillgJs re\relluo
he ~lso hid some Welsh, thnt if it should colue to a co~~te~t
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