[552] _Est._, ll. 977-1000; _Gesta_, 133-6; _Itin._, 169; R. Diceto, ii. 85; R. Devizes, 24, 25. [553] Letter of Richard in _Gesta_, 133. [554] Letters of Richard to Tancred and to the Pope, in _Gesta_, 133-8. [555] _Gesta_, 136. [556] Richard in both his letters cited above acknowledges the receipt of 20,000 ounces of gold as the dowry of Arthur’s betrothed. We shall see that the other sum, though the letters do not mention it, was paid also. [557] _Est._, ll. 1049-52; _Itin._, 169, 170. Rigord (106), on the other hand, declares it was “thanks to King Philip’s intervention and efforts” that Tancred and Richard were reconciled—which is perhaps true in a sense, but not the sense in which Philip’s panegyrist meant it—and complains that of the forty thousand ounces of gold Philip “had only the third part, when he ought to have had half.” [558] _Gesta_, 129-32. [559] _Est._, ll. 1053-74; _Itin._, 171, 172. In the printed edition of the _Estoire_, line 1062 reads thus: “Richarz qui n’est aver ne chinches.” If _est_ be really the reading of the MS., it of course places beyond all doubt the correctness of M. Gaston Paris’s assertion that the poet “a certainement écrit avant la mort de Richard” (introd., p. 1.). But M. Paris does not cite this line in support of his assertion, and in his modern French version of the poem he renders the line “Richard, qui _n’était_ pas chiche ni avare” (p. 347). We are therefore at present left in doubt whether _n’est_ be not here a misprint for _n’ert_. [560] _Gesta_, 157. [561] _Ib._, 146, 147. [562] _Est._, ll. 1080-1108; cf. _Gesta_, 150. [563] _Gesta_, 150, 151. [564] See above, p. 79. [565] _Gesta_, 155-7. [566] Rigord, 107. [567] _Est._, ll. 1145-8. [568] _Gesta_, 157; they are there said to have gone to Brindisi. February 27 that year was Ash Wednesday; possibly Richard had hoped they would arrive in time for the marriage to take place before Lent. [569] Rigord, 107. [570] So says _Itin._, 170, 171; in the _Gesta_, 158, he is said to have gone “per consilium regis Franciae,” which from the sequel does not seem very likely. [571] _Gesta_, 158, 159. [572] _Ib._, 159, 160. [573] Charter of Philip, in _Fœdera_, I. i. 54, dated “March 1190,” the French year beginning on Lady day.