[574] “Tertio kalendas Aprilis, sabbato,” _Gesta_, 161; “die Sabbati post Annunciationem B. Mariae,” _Itin._, 175; _i. e._, Saturday, March 30. In p. 177, however, the author of the _Itinerarium_ says Richard sailed on the seventeenth day after Philip’s departure; which, as all authorities (this same writer included, _l.c._) date Richard’s departure from Messina on the Wednesday before Easter, _i. e._, April 10, ought to mean that Philip sailed on Lady day itself. R. Diceto, ii. 91, makes him sail “quarto kalendas Aprilis,” _i. e._, March 29; or, according to another MS., “tertio kalendas Aprilis,” agreeing with _Gesta_. This latter authority says (161) that Philip reached Acre on the twenty-second day of his voyage, viz. Saturday in Easter week, _i. e._, April 20. Rigord, 108, dates his arrival Easter Even (April 13). [575] _Gesta_, 157. [576] Cf. _ib._, 161, and _Est._, ll. 1135-40, 1153-9. [577] _Gesta_, 162; _Est._, ll. 1186-90; _Itin._, 177; R. Diceto, ii. 91. [578] One hundred “naves” and 14 “buccae,” R. Devizes, 17. This writer, it must be remembered, supposed the king to have joined his fleet at Marseille and coasted along with it thence to Messina, picking up more ships as he went; but as we have seen, this is an error. [579] R. Diceto, ii. 86, makes it 219, viz. 156 “naves,” 24 “buccae,” and 39 “galeae”; the _Gesta_, 162, make it 203, being 150 “magnae naves” and 53 “galeae”; R. Devizes, 46, reckons the fleet at its leaving Messina as comprising 180 “naves,” “buccae,” and “dromundi” (thus tallying with R. Diceto), besides the “galeae” of which he does not state the number. [580] Cf. the description of twelfth century _galeae_ in W. Tyr., lib. xiv. c. 20, with that in _Itin._, 80. [581] R. Devizes, 17. [582] R. Devizes, 46. [583] _Est._, ll. 1179-85, 1200; _Itin._, 176, 177. [584] “Devant siglot li reis meismes,” _Est._, l. 1259. [585] _Itin._, 177. [586] “Prés de Vïaires,” _Est._, l. 1216; probably, as M. Gaston Paris says, Cape Spartivento, the eastern point of Calabria. [587] _Est._, ll. 1202-28. [588] R. Devizes, 46. [589] _Itin._, 178. [590] _Est._, ll. 1233-60. [591] _Ib._, ll. 1261-7. [592] _Ib._, ll. 1268-1312. [593] _Ib._, ll. 1377-1400. [594] Cf. R. Howden, iii. 105, _Est._, ll. 1401, 1402, and _Itin._, 184, which alone gives the date. [595] R. Devizes, 47. [596] _Itin._, 184-7; cf. _Est._, ll. 1403-25. [597] _Itin._, 187, 188. [598] _Est._, ll. 1315-34, 1349-51. [599] _Ib._, ll. 1449-72. Cf. _Itin._, 189. We need not trouble ourselves about the speeches in _Gesta_, 163, and R. Howden, ii. 106. [600] _Est._, ll. 1479-95; _Itin._, 189. Cf. R. Howden, iii. 107. [601] R. Devizes, 47. [602] “Estions mis es bargettes Qui esteient mult petitettes” _Est._, ll. 1505, 1506. [603] _Est._, ll. 1473-4, 1495-1564; _Itin._, 180-91. [604] _Itin._, 191. [605] _Est._, ll. 1565-1700; cf. _Itin._, 192-4, _Gesta_, 163, 164, and R. Howden, iii. 107, 108.