Chapter XXVI. WHETHER BORROWED HARNESS AND HORSES, LOST IN BATTLE, MUST BE RESTORED I NOW ask another question which arises, or might arise, in war. A German knight comes to Paris and finds the King prepared to fight the English, who wish to enter his kingdom. He inspects the army and finds a knight with whom he is acquainted. He asks this knight, of his courtesy, to lend him a knight's complete harness and three or four of his horses. The other grants this very willingly. Thereupon the German rides in his host after the King. It comes to pass that the bachelor loses the borrowed harness and horses. Is he required to pay them back? This matter is clear enough among the clerks of the law, and the Decretals, so I will pass it by briefly ; for indeed, as the knight has gone whither he promised to go, and has done nothing contrary to what he has said to the lender, he is not required to pay them back. If, however, he has gone elsewhere and has committed plain barratry in order to lose the harness and horses or to be made prisoner in pretence, I would say, on the contrary, that he is bound to make payment.