[1040] This in an inference from Rigord, 118, who seems to place the whole transaction at this time. [1041] R. Diceto, ii. 106; _Itin._, 441. [1042] _Ll.cc_; R. Howden, iii. 185, says October 8. [1043] Bohadin, 348. [1044] _Eracle, Recueil, Hist. Occid._, ii. 189. [1045] Gerv. Cant., i. 513. [1046] R. Coggeshall, 53. [1047] _Ann. Colon. Max._, Pertz, xvii. 796; cf. Ansbert, ed. Dobrowsky, 115 (Stubbs, R. Howden, iii. introd. cxli). “Allein die Glaubwürdigkeit dieser Zeugnisse unterliegt gegründeten Bedenken”; Kellner, _Ueber die deutsche Gefangenschaft Richards I_, 44. [1048] “Applicuit in insula de Cuverfu, et navigavit usque ad tres galeas quas vidit ex opposito in Rumania,” R. Howden, iii. 185. Roger dates the arrival at Corfu, “infra mensem post diem illum,” _i. e._ the day on which Richard left Acre, October 9. R. Coggeshall, whose information, being partly derived from the chaplain Anselm who accompanied the king on his voyage, is probably more accurate, says (53) that Richard had been six weeks at sea when he turned back to Corfu; so the date would be about November 20. According to the same writer (_l.c._) the pirate galleys numbered two, not three as Roger says. [1049] Twenty-one according to R. Howden, _l.c._ One of the party was Anselm, who told the story to R. Coggeshall, _l.c._ [1050] R. Howden, _l.c._ [1051] Document, dated 1598, from the archives of Ragusa, “ex lib. Div. Cancellariae n. 98,” in Farlati, _Illyricum Sacrum_, vi. 90. [1052] Appendini, _Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichita, etc., di Ragusa_, i. 272; Farlati, vi. 90. [1053] “It is not Great Britain who will fail in keeping her promises. Great Britain has known us ever since Richard received our hospitality and built for us a most beautiful church on the spot where our ancestors had saved him from shipwreck on his way back from the Crusade,” said M. Vesnitch, the representative of Serbia, at a great public meeting in Paris on January 27, 1916.