A.D. 



883. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A second testimony of the foresaid Sighelmus his 

 voyage unto Saint Thomas of India &c. out 

 of WiUiam of Malmesbury his second booke 

 de gestis pontificum Anglorum, cap. de epis- 

 copis Schireburnensibus, Salisburiensibus, Wil- 

 tunensibus. 



Sighelmus trans mare, causa eleemosynarum regis, & 

 etiam ad Sanctum Thomam in Indiam missus, mira 

 prosperitate, quod quivis in hoc seculo miretur, Indiam 

 penetravit ; indeque rediens exotici generis gemmas, 

 quarum ilia humus ferax est, reportavit. Nonnullae 

 illarum adhuc in ecclesiae monumentis visuntur. 



The same in English. 



Sighelmus being for the performance of the kings almes 

 sent beyond the seas, and travailing unto S. Thomas 

 of India, very prosperously (which a man would woonder 

 at in this age) passed through the sayde countrey of 

 India, and returning home brought with him divers 

 strange and precious stones, such as that climate 

 affourdeth. Many of which stones are as yet extant in 

 the monuments of the Church. 



The life and travailes of John Erigena. 



Oannes Erigena Britannus natione, in 

 Menevia urbe, seu ad fanum Davidis, & 

 patricio genitore natus, dum Anglos Daci 

 crudeles bellis ac rapinis molestarent, ac 

 omnia illic essent tumultibus plena, 

 longam ipse peregrinationem Athenas 

 usque suscepit, annosque quamplures 



literis Graecis, Chaldaicis, & Arabicis insudavit : omnia 

 illic invisit Philosophorum loca, ac studia, imo & ipsum 

 oraculum Solis, quod Aesculapius sibi construxerat. In- 

 [II. i. 6.] veniens tandem quod longo quaesierat labore, in Italiam 

 & Galliam est reversus ubi ob insignem eruditionem, 



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