ABSTRACT
A n d when Messina was relieved all Sicily and all Calabria were full of great joy and great content, as were also the Lord King of Sicily and all his barons ; and King Charles and the Pope were full of concern and fear that the Duke was lost with all who were with him. And they proceeded to send swift messengers to micer Charles to tell him to come back. And micer Charles came to Naples and brought four thousand knights in the pay of the Pope. And when he came to Naples he proceeded to go on board the galleys which the Duke had sent and others which were at Naples, which King Charles had had apparelled, as well as lenys and ships and terides. And he went and landed at Termini and there they made a great feast. And, as a good beginning, there was a great fight at Termini between Latins and Provençals and French, so great that, altogether, over two thousand persons were killed. And they departed from Termini and went to besiege the town of Sciacca, which is on the outer coast. And, assuredly, it is the weakest town and the least strong fort of Sicily. And they stayed there a long time, shooting with catapults. And I assure you that the Lord King of Aragon would be much annoyed if he besieged such a town and did not take it in a month, either voluntarily surrendered or taken by assault. But they could do nothing ; rather, when the siege was closest by sea and by land, there entered by sea, in the night, a knight of Peralada, called En Simon de Vallguarnera, with full two hundred men of birth on horseback
