A.D. 



c. 1380-90. 



In the Mona- 

 stery of Saint 

 Thomas most 

 of the?n spake 

 the Lathe 

 tongue. The 

 end of the 2. 

 letter. 



N. Zeno dyed 

 in Frisland. 



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as it were a stove, not carying with it any stinke or 

 other noysome smell. 



Besides this they have another conveyance to bring 

 hot water with a wall under the ground, to the end it 

 should not freeze, unto the middle of the court, where 

 it falleth into a great vessel of brasse that standeth in the 

 middle of a boyling fountaine, and this is to heat their 

 water to drinke & to water their gardens, & thus they 

 have from the hill the greatest commodities that may 

 be wished : and so these Fryers employ al their travaile 

 and studie for the most part in trimming their gardens 

 and in making faire and beautifull buildings, but especi- 

 ally handsome and commodious : neyther are they 

 destitute of ingenious and paineful artificers for the 

 purpose ; for they give very large payment, and to them 

 that bring them fruits and seedes they are very bounti- 

 full, and give they care not what. So that there is great 

 resort of workemen and masters in divers faculties, by 

 reason of the good gaines and large allowance that is 

 there. 



The most of them speake the Latine tongue, and 

 specially the superiours and principals of the Monastery. 

 And this is as much as is knowen of Engroneland, which 

 is all by the relation of M. Nicolo, who maketh also par- 

 ticular description of a river that he discovered, as is to 

 be seene in the carde that I drew. And in the end 

 M. Nicolo, not being used & acquainted with these 

 cruell coldes, fel sicke, and a litle while after returned 

 into Frisland, where he dyed. He left behind him in 

 Venice, two sonnes, M. Giovanni and M. Toma, who 

 had two sonnes, M. Nicolo the father of the famous 

 Cardinal Zeno, and M. Pietro of whom descended the 

 other Zenos, that are living at this day. 



Now M. Nicolo being dead, M. Antonio succeeded 

 him both in his goods, and in his dignities and honour : 

 and albeit he attempted divers wayes, and made great 

 supplication, he could never obtaine licence to returne 

 into his countrey. For Zichmni, being a man of great 



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