ABSTRACT
Brother David has arrived at our Court and presented letters sent through your envoys to the Holy Father and other Christian Kings. We note in them the love you bear to the Christian faith, and the resolution you have taken to relieve the Christians and the Holy Land from the enemies of Christianity. We pray Your Magnificence to carry out this holy project. We cannot at this time send you any certain news about the time of our arrival in the Holy Land, and of the march of the Christians, since at this moment nothing has been settled by the Sovereign Pontiff.—Answer of Edward I. of England to Abaga, dated 26th January 1274 (? 1275).
