A.D. 1189.] CONQUESTS OF THE KING OF FRANCK. father which belonged to the crown of France, saving the tenure to his father as long as he lived, and saving the allegiance due to his father. Thus the conference ended, and the kings and all the people separated. How tlte king of France took four castles from the king of England, and drove away the king himself from the city of Mans. The French king, departing from the conference in company with count Richard, took Ferté-Bcrnard, Montfort, and Baalverquo, fortresses belonging to the king of England, and after taking them, remained there four days. Thence, proceeding to Maine, and pretending to go to Tours, on the following Monday, whilst the king of England and his men thought themselves in safety there, he disposed his forces to make an attack on the city of Mans ; and Stephen de Turnham, the king of England's seneschal of Anjou, set fire to the suburbs, but the llames passing the walls, reduced almost all the city to ashes. The French upon this proceeded to a stone bridge, where Geoffrey de Biurlun and many others with him from the king of England met them, and endeavoured to break down the bridge: a severe conflict took place, and many fell on both sides. Geoffrey, after having received a wound in the neck, was taken with many others : the rest essaying to escape into the city, the French entered with them, and the king of England, despairing of resistance, fled with seven hundred horsemen. The French king and count Richard pursued him for three miles, and if the stream, which they forded, had not been wide and deep, all the knights of the king of England's household would have been taken prisoners. Many Welshmen fell in that battle. The king of England, at the head of a small party, took refuge in the castle of Tours, and the rest of his men in the tower of Mans. The king of France immediately besieged the tower, and partly by his engines and partly by his miners, reduced the garrison, consisting of thirty knights, and sixty men-at-arms, to surrender. Marching thence he reduced Mont-Double, Trou, de Rocher, Montone, (.'arciere, Chateaudu-Loir, Chaumont, Amboise, Roche-corbon, and Beaumont. The city of Seville is captured. The same year many ships passing through the British