OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE COUNCIL JOINVILLI

DIVERS OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE COUNCIL JOINVILLI OPPOSES THE RETURN TO FRANCE

On the Sunday after, we came again before the king; an the king asked his brothers, and the other barons, and the Count of Flanders, what advice they gave, whether to go c to remain. They all replied, that they had charged my Lord Guy of Mauvoisin to state the advice they wished to give t the king. The king commanded the Lord Guy to stat this advice accordingly; and he space as follows: “ Sir your brothers, and the men of note here present, have looker to your estate, and seen that you cannot remain in this Ian to your own honour, and that of your realm; for of all the knights that came in your company of whom you led two thousand eight hundred into Cyprus there are not now, this city, one hundred remaining. So they advise you, that you go to France, and there procure men and money whereby you may hastily return to this land, and take verance upon the enemies of God, who have had you in privity.”

The king would not rest satisfied with what my Lord Guy ‘ avoiding had said; but he inquired of the Count of Anjou, e Count of Poitiers, and the Count of Flanders, and several her men of note who sat near them. And all agreed with y Lord Guy Mauvoisin. The legate asked Count John of iffy, who sat behind them, what he thought. The Count Jaffa begged that they would suffer him not to reply to is question, “ for,” said he, “ my castle is on the marches, id if I advised the king to remain, men would think I did so my own profit,” Then the king asked him, as urgently he could, to say what he thought. And the count said at if the king could but hold the field for a year, he would himself great honor by remaining. Then the legate in rued of those who were sitting by the Count of Jaffa, and 1 agreed with my Lord Guy Mauvoisin.