Thee that thing in me for which Thou carest the most.”[1269] Another eighteen miles’[1270] ride brought the fugitives at nightfall to La Frênaye,[1271] whose lord, the viscount of Beaumont, was a kinsman of Henry, and the father of Hermengard whose marriage with the king of Scots had been arranged three years ago by Henry’s influence. The king found shelter in the castle; his followers, already sadly diminished in number in consequence of the overpowering heat and fatigue of the day’s ride, quartered themselves in the little town as best they could; the chancellor would have remained with them to keep guard himself, but his father would not be parted from him, and made him come in to sup and spend the night. Geoffrey, whose baggage had been all left in Le Mans, was glad to exchange his travel-stained clothes for some which his father was able to lend him; Henry, with characteristic disregard of such details, persisted in lying down to rest just as he was, with his son’s cloak thrown over him for a coverlet.[1272] [1263] See extracts from _Hist. de Guillaume le Maréchal_, vv. 23–398, in _Romania_, vol. xi. (1882), pp. 47–52. [1264] _Hist. de Guill. le Mar._, vv. 399–654 (as above, pp. 52–55). [1265] See above, pp. 32, 33. [1266] They seem to have both officiated at the crowning of Richard. _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs, “Benedict of Peterborough,” vol. ii.), p. 81. [1267] See above, pp. 139 and 228. [1268] P. Meyer, in _Romania_, vol. xi. pp. 62, 63, from _Hist. de Guill. le Mar._, vv. 8833–8836. This is clearly the incident recorded briefly and without a name by Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, dist. iii. c. 25 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 140). [1269] Gir. Cambr. as above, c. 24 (p. 138). He makes the distance two miles from Le Mans; in the _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 67, the pursuit is said to have extended to three miles. [1270] Will. Armor. _Philipp._, l. iii. (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), p. 132, makes the day’s ride twenty miles altogether; but he carries it as far as Alençon. See, however, Bishop Stubbs’s pref. to Rog. Howden, vol. ii. pp. lxii, lxiii and notes. [1271] Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, dist. iii. c. 25 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 140); _Vita Galfr._, l. i. c. 4 (Brewer, vol. iv. p. 369). See Stubbs, _Rog. Howden_, vol. ii. pref. p. lxiii, note 5. [1272] Gir. Cambr. _Vita Galfr._ as above.