ABSTRACT
And when the letter had been read micer Aleynep rose in the name of all and said : “ Lady Queen, you are welcome; and blessed be the hour in which you and the Lords Infantes arrived amongst u s ; and blessed be the King of Aragon who has sent you for our guard and defence. Wherefore we all pray God Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother and His Blessed Saints to give long life to the Lord King and to you, Lady Queen, and to all your children, and that He take from our days to lengthen yours, and that God preserve you to us and to all your peoples. And you, Lady, we accept now fully from the Lord King, in our name and in the name of those who are not present as our Lady and Queen, to do and to say all
you command. And we accept the Lords Infantes as those who are to be our lords after the Lord King and, especially, we accept the Infante En Jaime as head and chief and lord, in the place of the Lord King and in yours. And, for greater security, I swear by God and by the Holy Gospels, for myself and for all the community of Sicily, to keep and to do all I have said, and thus all who are in this court will swear for themselves and for the places whose syndics they are.” And at once he rose and kissed the hands of my Lady the Queen and of the Infantes, and each of the syndics and richs homens, and knights and franklins did the same.
