[484] We get this date from the _Gesta_, 112, where it is said that Richard stayed at Marseille eight days and left on August 7. The author of the _Itinerarium_ enumerates (153) fifteen places which he says “_we_ went through” (_transivimus_) from Lyons to Marseille; but he does not (as in his account of the journey from Vézelay to Lyons) specify how many days’ travelling these stages represent; and moreover, he is evidently here not describing Richard’s journey at all, for he ends “apud Marsiliam, ubi moram fecimus per tres hebdomadas; postea mare intravimus, scilicet die proxima post festum Assumptionis Beatae Mariae,” _i. e._, August 16; that is, he represents himself as having reached Marseille on July 26. Supposing his narrative to be authentic, he must therefore have travelled from Lyons to Marseille not with the king, but in advance of him. On the other hand, if he was an impostor and not a Crusader at all, his evidence on this point is of no account. In either case, however, it is probable that the route he gives would occupy about a fortnight; Richard may therefore have set out from Lyons on July 17 or 18. [485] R. Howden, iii. 51. [486] _Ib._, 42. [487] _Epp. Cantuar._, 328. [488] _Gesta_, 15. [489] The date of the death, November 1189, is given in _Gesta_, 101, 102. [490] “Mare nauseans,” R. Devizes, 16. [491] _Ib._ [492] _Gesta_, 112. R. Diceto, ii. 84, says “in vigilia S. Laurentii,” _i. e._, August 9; but in the _Gesta_ the date is the first of a whole series evidently derived from an official record of some kind, so it seems best to follow this authority. [493] _Gesta_, _l.c._ [494] _Gesta_, 112-14. [495] R. Diceto, ii. 84. [496] _Gesta_, 114, 115. [497] _Ib._, 124. [498] _Gesta_, 115-22. 124; R. Howden, iii. 42-50. 53, 54. [499] _Gesta_, 124; R. Diceto, ii. 84. [500] Rigord, 106. [501] Placed at his disposal by the new king of Sicily, Tancred; _Gesta_, _l.c._ [502] _Est._, ll. 573-80; _Itin._, 156. [503] _Gesta_, 124, 125. [504] _Est._, ll. 588-93. [505] _Gesta_, 126; R. Howden, iii, 55. These and R. Diceto, ii. 84, give the date, September 23. [506] _Gesta_, _l.c._ [507] _Est._, ll. 594-7. [508] _Gesta_ and R. Howden, _ll.cc._ [509] The settlement is given at length in _Gesta_, i. 169, 170. [510] Cf. _Gesta_, 132, 133, and R. Devizes, 19. According to the former authority the cups and dishes were of gold, according to the latter of silver. [511] R. Devizes, 18. [512] _Gesta_, 132. [513] R. Devizes, 19. The _terrino_ was a small gold coin weighing twenty grains. [514] _Gesta_, 126; date confirmed by R. Diceto, ii. 85. [515] _Est._, ll. 549-58. [516] _Est._, ll. 615-19. [517] R. Devizes, 18. [518] Cf. R. Devizes, 20, _Est._, ll. 547-58, 607-24, and _Gesta_, 138, 139. [519] Cf. R. Devizes, 19, R. Diceto, ii. 85, _Gesta_, 127, and R. Howden, iii.