ABSTRACT
A n d when this was done he embarked at a suitable hour in Messina and went to Clarenza and landed near the city, at a distance of two miles. And the host came out of Clarenza, with full two hundred horsemen, to defend it against him. W hat shall I tell you ? The almugavars who were with the Lord Infante and the cross-bowmen landed and attacked these people, and they drove them away and cleared the place and mean while the horses were landed. And when about fifty horsemen had landed and the Lord Infante had put on his armour and was apparelled and upon his horse, he had the banner unfurled, for he would wait no longer for the rest of his chivalry ; rather, he made his attack with these fifty horsemen and with the almugavars ; and he proceeded to attack the enemy, and defeated them^ so that they fled towards the city, and the Lord Infante and all his company followed them, attacking them and stabbing them. What shall I tell you ? Together with them they entered the city and killed all they pleased, and they would have killed them all, but, when they were within the city, all the people cried :— “ Mercy, Lord ! mercy, Lord ! ” And upon this, he rallied his followers and forbade that anyone should be killed thenceforth.
