12. The King readily disburthened all whose money was a burthen to them, such powers and possessions as they chose being given to anybody at pleasure; wherewith also on a time an old acquaintance in the company joking him, he broke off with this evasion, "I would sell London if I could find a chapman." Many a one might have been forewarned by that expression, had it been uttered sooner, not to learn to be a wise merchant, after the English proverb, "by buying for a dozen, and selling for one and a half." [6] Henry, son of King Henry II., is frequently styled Henry the Third, in the early chronicles. LAWS OF RICHARD I. CONCERNING CRUSADERS WHO WERE TO GO BY SEA (1189). +Source.+--_Historical Documents of the Middle Ages_, p. 135. Henderson. G. Bell & Sons. Richard by the grace of God, King of England, and Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to all his subjects who are about to go by sea to Jerusalem, greeting. Know that we, by the common counsel of upright men, have made the laws here given. Whoever slays a man on shipboard, shall be bound to the dead man and thrown into the sea. But if he shall slay him on land, he shall be bound to the dead man and buried in the earth. If any one, moreover, shall be convicted through lawful witnesses of having drawn a knife to strike another, or of having struck him so as to draw blood, he shall lose his hand. But if he shall strike him with his fist without drawing blood, he shall be dipped three times in the sea. But if any one shall taunt or insult a comrade or charge him with hatred of God: as many times as he shall have insulted him, so many ounces of silver shall he pay. A robber, moreover, convicted of theft, shall be shorn like a hired fighter, and boiling tar shall be poured over his head, and feathers from a cushion shall be shaken out over his head--so that he may be publicly known; and at the first land where the ships shall put in he shall be cast on shore. Under my own witness at Chinon. THE ABBOT AND THE JEWS (1190). +Source.+--_Jocelin de Brakelond_, Chapter 6. King's Classics. Chatto & Windus.