earth.

CHAPTER V.

_Of the Churches the King built._

Charles remained three years in these parts, and with the gold given him
by the kings and princes greatly enlarged the church of the blessed St.
James, appointing an Abbot and Canons of the order of St. Isidore,
martyr and confessor, to attend it: he enriched it likewise with bells,
books, robes, and other gifts. With the residue of the immense quantity
of gold and silver, he built many churches on his return from Spain;
namely, of the blessed Virgin in Aix-la-Chapelle, of St. James in
Thoulouse, and another in Gascony, between the city commonly called Aix,
after the model of St. John's at Cordova, in the Jacobine road; the
church likewise of St. James at Paris, between the river Seine and
Montmartre, besides founding innumerable abbeys in all parts of the
world.

CHAPTER VI.

_Of the King's Return to France, and of Argolander, King of the Africans._

After the King's return from Spain, a certain Pagan King, called
Argolander, recovered the whole country with his army, driving the
Emperor's soldiers from the towns and garrisons, which led him to march
back his troops, under their General, Milo de Angleris.

CHAPTER VII.

_Of the false Executor._

But the judgment inflicted on a false executor deserves to be recorded,
as a warning to those who unjustly pervert the alms of the deceased.
When the King's army lay at Bayonne, a certain soldier, called
Romaricus, was taken grievously ill, and, being at the point of death,
received the eucharist and absolution from a priest, bequeathing his
horse to a certain kinsman, in trust, to dispose of for the benefit of
the priest and the poor. But when he was dead his kinsman sold it for a
hundred pence, and spent the money in debauchery. But how soon does
punishment follow guilt! Thirty days had scarcely elapsed when the
apparition of the deceased appeared to him in his sleep, uttering these
words: "How is it you have so unjustly misapplied the alms entrusted to
you for the redemption of my soul? Do you not know they would have
procured the pardon of my sins from God? I have been punished for your
neglect thirty days in fire; to-morrow you shall be plunged in the same
place of torment, but I shall be received into Paradise." The apparition
then vanished, and his kinsman awoke in extreme terror.

On the morrow, as he was relating the story to his companions, and the
whole army was conversing abo