On the day after these events, both the knight named Mauburney and Sir Robert, who was in the town, came together on the field to joust. They and their horses were well equipped and well protected. Mauburney was a sturdy knight and had taken part in jousting on many previous occasions. Sir Robert was of smaller build and less adept in this feat of arms. When jousting, Mauburney was accoutred as follows: he wore a bascinet without a visor and with the edge of his shield he covered his face so that only his right eye was visible. His horse charged no faster than at a canter. He did not engage head on with his opponent but as he passed him at an angle. In their first charge Mauburney caught Sir Robert in the neck, and, though he was wearing two camails and a gorget, the lance passed right through camails and gorget and out on the other side, hauling him on its point clean out of the saddle and down to the ground, so that everybody thought he was dead. Yet Sir Robert remounted, and there was a second onset which caused him to lurch back. On the third charge they missed one another, and at this point their jousting was brought to a close.

It is important you should know that, if, initially, when Álvaro Gomes jousted, many Castilians and other foreigners came out to watch the jousting, now many more came out to witness these later clashes. Among these people was the very squire who, as we mentioned, had passed uncouth remarks of an offensive nature. But, if his earlier comments were uncalled for, they were on this occasion even more so, and far more unpleasant to hear. Now Álvaro Coitado, a gallant Portuguese knight from the constable's company, was well-built and ready for anything. He had heard and had very much kept in mind what the king had said when people had complained to him about this man's discourteous behaviour. He therefore stood close to him to see whether he would repeat it. When he heard him passing such insulting remarks as on the first occasion and, with the jousting being almost at an end, he went up to where he was, seated on a mule, seized him by the collar with one hand and with the other gave him a hefty punch that immediately stunned him.