SWANUS SON OF (;ODVVIN ad. 



1052. 

 saJem a witnesse of the miracles, preaching, and passion 

 of Christ, and being againe returned into his countrey, 

 he was made the aforesayd Abbat. He flourished in 

 the yere of Christ 1020. under Canutus the Dane. 



The voyage of Swan us one of the sonnes of Earle 

 Godwin unto Jerusalem, Anno Dom. 1052, 

 recorded by WiUiam of Malmsburie Hb. 2. 

 de gestis regunn Angloruni, Capite 13. 



^jWanus perversi ingenii & infidi in regem, mul- 

 toties a patre be fratre Haroldo descivit : & pirata 



^ factus, praedis maritimis virtutes majorum polluit. 

 Postrem6 pro conscientia Brunonis cognati interempti, 

 6c (ut quidam dicunt) fratris Jerosolimam abiit : inde- 

 que rediens, a Saracenis circumventus, & ad mortem 

 caesus est. 



The same in English. [II. i. 7-] 



SWanus being of a perverse disposition, and faith- 

 lesse to the king, often times disagreed with his 

 father and his brother Harold : and afterwards prooving 

 a pirate, he stained the vertues of his ancestours with 

 his robberies upon the seas. Last of all, being guilty 

 unto himselfe of the murther of his kinseman Bruno, 

 and (as some do report) of his owne brother, he 

 travailed unto Jerusalem : and in his returne home, 

 being taken by the Saracens, was beaten, and wounded 

 unto death. 



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