ABSTRACT
A n d monsenyer En Philip summoned his barons and formed a vanguard of five hundred armed horse in which the count of Foix was, and then came he, with the oriflamme, and with his brother and the body of his father, and with the cardinal; and with them went about a thousand armed horse. And then, after that, came all the pack-mules and the lesser people and the men afoot. And in the rear came all the rest of the chivalry which had been left, who might be about fifteen hundred armed horse. And so they moved from Pujamilot and intended to go that same day to Junquera ; and that same day the admiral with all the seamen came to the Pass of Panisars. And God knows what sort of night the French had, for no one took off his armour, nor slept; but, rather, all night you might have heard laments and groans. The almugavars and retainers and seamen attacked them on the flanks and killed men and broke coffers ; you would have heard a greater crashing from the breaking of the coffers than if you had been in a wood in which a thousand men did nothing else but split wood. Of the cardinal I tell you that, after he left Peralada, he did nothing but pray; this he did as far as Perpignan for every moment he expected to have his head cut off; and thus they spent all that night. And next morning the Lord King of Aragon had an order proclaimed, that every man should follow his banner and that, on pain of death, no man should attack until his banner went to the attack and the trumpets and nakers
were sounded. And so everyone collected around the banner of the Lord King of Aragon.
