ABSTRACT
And of this the said Lord King was very joyous and content and gave them great thanks and immediately ordained that the Lord Infante En Pedro should make an incursion into the kingdom of Murcia, in order to reconnoitre all that kingdom. The Lord Infante En Pedro had a battle arrayed of many richs homens and knights of Catalonia and Aragon and of the kingdom of Valencia, and citizens and seamen and almugavars ; and, overrunning the said kingdom by land and sea, went about, sacking and laying waste the whole country. And in each place he remained until he had destroyed it quite. First he laid waste and destroyed all the country around Alicante and Nompot and Aquast, and then he destroyed Elche and the vale of Elda and of Novelda and Villena and Aspe and Petrel and Crevillente and Catral and Abanilla, and Collosa, and Guardamar, and Orihuela. And he went as far as up to the castle of Montagut, which is in the huerta of Murcia, and that place he wasted and destroyed. And the Saracen king of Murcia came out to meet him with all his power of horse and foot. And the said Lord Infante was two days awaiting him in order of battle, but the king of Murcia dared not fight with him. And, assuredly, if it had not been for the acequias1 which were between the two hosts, the Lord Infante would have attacked, but the acequias were so wide and the water in them so deep, that he could not do it. Nevertheless there were many fine feats of arms, and in one hand-tohand fight the Lord Infante had, it was found that he had killed, with his own hand, ten jinetes2 and, where
