[993] Cf. R. Coggeshall, 44, 45, Itin., 414, 415, and Est., ll. 11379-407.
[994] R. Coggeshall, 44, cf. Itin., 420. The latter writer puts the episode of the Saracens re-occupying the town and Richard re-taking it at the end of his narrative of the fight, i. e. after the victory outside the walls; but as he introduces it with “Interea,” we cannot be sure where in the order of events he really meant to place it; and as R. Coggeshall’s information is derived from Hugh de Neville, who was in close attendance on the king during the fight, his narrative is probably correct.
[995] See details of the array in Itin., 416.
[996] R. Coggeshall, 44, 45; cf. Itin., l.c.
[997] “Ferme quinquaginta milites,” Itin., 413; “milites octoginta,” R. Coggeshall, 50.
[998] The Itin., 413, says fifteen, but R. Coggeshall, 46, says six horses and one mule. Bohadin—after remarking “I was not there, thank God!”—says some who were there told him the Christian knights numbered only nine, or at most seventeen (337); he, or his informants, doubtless reckoned as “knights” only those who were horsed. According to the Itin., 420, Richard gained two more horses, as soon as he entered the town, by killing their Turkish riders.
[999] “Un hardi serjant e nobile, Henri le Tyois, el conroi Portoit la baniere le roi,” Est., ll. 11432-4. “Serviens probissimus Hernicus Teutonicus, regis signifer,” Itin., 415. “Rex ... assumptis secum sex strenuis militibus cum regio vexillo,” R. Coggeshall, 55.
[1000] Itin., 420. This writer reduces the king’s mounted followers at this time to two, which of course is absurd.
[1001] R. Coggeshall, 46.
[1002] Itin., 420, 421.