ABSTRACT
A n d when the Lord King had dispatched his messengers, he summoned En Ramon Marquet and En Berenguer Mallol and told them to fit out the ship of En P. Desvilar, called La Bonaventura, and another ship of the largest in Barcelona after that one; and to cover them with hides and to put into each two hundred fighting men, the best that were in Barcelona ; and put in bu9ons1
and anchors, and arganels1 and movable castles, and to cover them with hides, and to prepare gabions and cover them with hides, and to put in all that is wanted for armed ships; and to fit out four galleys and two lenys and two barges, and to sail all together under convoy, for he wished to send my Lady the Queen to Sicily and the Infante En Jaime and the Infante Fadrique with her; and he wished to send a hundred knights with her, besides those of her household; and also, besides the mariners, five hundred well equipped cross bowmen, and five hundred retainers, in order that the ships and the galleys be well fitted out and that they reinforce the island of Sicily. And what he commanded, En Ramon Marquet and En Berenguer Mallol carried out fully and, assuredly, as it was to their advantage, they stinted nothing, and especially as the Lord King gave them the charge of going there as commanders.
