ABSTRACT
W h en the Lord King of Aragon and the Lord Infante E n Alfonso saw the Pisans wickedly and iniquitously trying as much as they could to obtain succours from m any sides in order to raise the siege of Cagliari, they proceeded to have galleys and terides built and ordained that knights and footsoldiers be sent to Sardinia every day. Also, when the marriage of the Lord King of Mallorca was settled and signed, he had six galleys and tw o ships equipped at Mallorca which, with a great succour of many men, he sent to the castle of Bonaire, in aid of the Lord King of Aragon ; and so, likewise, many ships and lenys and terides of Catalonia went there, which all went full of expert men, so that, in a few days, the Lord King of Aragon and the Lord Infante had sent so much chivalry and so m any people and so many terides and galleys that those who were within the castle of Cagliari held themselves for dead men, and sent to tell the Commune of Pisa to succour them ; for, if they did not, they could not hold out. But the Pisans, knowing the great force the Lord King had sent there, held all their affair for lost and thought that thenceforth they could not preserve the said castle of Cagliari, rather they would rejoice if the Lord King of Aragon let them live in peace in the city of Pisa. And so they sent to the Lord King of Aragon messengers with full powers who came to Barcelona where they found the Lord King and there, very humbly, they entreated him and the Lord Infante to be pleased to forgive them what they had done against
