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The two German princes, of whom it is difficult to Sat which appears to us in the most despicable light, entertained an equal hatred for their noble prisoner. How high the brilliant valour and abilities of Richard had placed him above his contemporaries is evident from the jealousy with which they all regarded him; but the chief cause of the enmity of the- emperor was the allianoe which had been formed between Cceur-de-Lion and Tancred of Sicily. It will be remembered that at the time when the army of the Crusaders visited Sicily, Henry was preparing for a descent upon that kingdom,
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for the purpose of enforcing those claims -to the throne which he held in right of his wife Constance, the heiress of William the Good. Soon after the departure of Richard from Messina (a.d. 1191), Henry appeared with a vast army before the walls of Naples, which city made a gallant defence against the invader. The emperor, although the immediate descendant of the great Frederic Barbarossa, was as deficient in military skill as in other manly qualities, and he saw his troops fall thiokly around him, cut off by the fevers of that unaccustomed climate, without venturing to make a combined at tack upon the city. At length befell ill himself, and then he immediately raised the siege, and retreated. At the tune when Coeur-de-Lion fell into his power, he was preparing for a second expedition to Italy, and the captivity of the English king afforded him greatly increased chances of success; for Richard was accustomed to adhere to his engagements, and it is probable that had he been in possession of his kingdom he would have m^r" fered to prevent the destruction of his ally. It *VVwt that after that shameful bargain by which the person of the royal prisoner was transferred to the custody of the emperor, the place of his confinement -was kept carelu y concealed, and was for many months a nmatter of specula"0"
not only in England, but in Germany. Before we follow fur- I were sacrificed, than for the circumstances of horror which, thcr the fortunes of this adventurous king, it is necessary to go | attended it. At nightfall on the 16th of the month, a back to the period of his departure for the Holy Land, and company of strangers, armed to the teeth, entered the to trace the course of events in England during his | city, and attacked the house of a rich Jew who had been absence. !killed in London at the coronation. His widow and children
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The popular feeling, which had been excited against the ' however still remained, and these the ruffians put to tho Jews at the time of Richard's coronation, and which he had sword; carrying off whatever property the house containeddone so little to repress, found vent in persecutions and On the following day the rest of the Jews in York, anticimassacres throughout the country. In those turbulent pating the fate which awaited them, appeared before the times there were among the people a certain number of | governor, and entreated permission to seek safety for themlawless characters, who, ever eager for plunder, were doubly j selves and their families within the walls of the castlc. so when they could obtain it by means which were encouraged I The request was granted, and the people of the persecuted
