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. June 6. Westminster. King Henry III of England writes to Patriarch R[obert] of Jerusalem announcing that he took the cross a fortnight after Easter (i.e. 14 April) in the presence of many magnates and will set off on the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) in four years. If the king of France will return his lands he will start sooner. Similar letters to: [Nicholas Larcat], archbishop of Tyre; Th. (recte H) [Henry I], king of Cyprus; Beomd’ [Bohemond VI], prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli; Ætton’, king of Armenia; Constantio, baiulo of Armenia; Johanni de Ibelm’, count of Jaffa; Johanni de Fogiis, constable of Acre; Philip of Monte Forte, lord of Torron; J. [John l’Aleman] lord of Caesarea; Consul and community of Genoa; Consul and community of Pisa; Consul and community of Venice; Similar letters to the masters of the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights adding that he has heard that they have ships and asks that they make the best they have available for a year before and a year after his expedition for transporting horse, arms and other things for the aid to the Holy Land.