ABSTRACT
Now I will tell you how the Lord King of Castile came to Valencia, with the Queen his wife, and with his 1248 sons. And the Lord King En Jaime of Aragon went to meet him at the boundaries of the kingdoms, and he ordained matters in his kingdoms and his territories in such manner that the people who came with the King of Castile had not to buy anything for money, but all went to take rations of all things wanted for meals to the court of the said Lord King of Aragon. And they were so well supplied by the court with all the provisions they required and needed, that their scouts ended by selling, in the market-places, whole sheep and kids and quarters of veal and beef, and bread and wine and capons and fowls and rabbits and partridges and all other kinds of poultry, so that the people of the place in which they were lived almost for nothing, so well supplied were the markets. And so this expenditure went on for more than two months, whilst the King of Castile was in the city of Valencia or in the kingdom ; and he never spent any money of his own, neither he, nor any of those who were with him. And you may imagine that during that time the Kings and Queens and Infantes and counts and
viscounts and barons and prelates and knights (of whom there were many from all the Kingdoms) and citizens and se?men lived very joyously and gaily.
