AN ENGLISH LADY 



thirty horsemen which went out of Normandie fat, lusty, 

 and frolique, we returned thither skarse twenty poore 

 pilgrims of us, being all footmen, and consumed with 

 leannesse to the bare bones. 



Divers of the honourable family of the Beau- 

 champs, with Robert Curtoys sonne of William 

 the Conqueror, made a voyage to Jerusalem 

 1096. Hoi. pag. 22. vol. 2. 



Ope Urbane calling a councell at Clermont 

 in Auvergne, exhorted the Christian 

 princes so earnestly to make a journey 

 into the Holy land, for the recovery 

 thereof out of the Saracens hands, that 

 the saide great and generall journey was 

 concluded upon to be taken in hand, 

 wherein many noble men of Christendome went under 

 the leading of Godfrey of Bouillon & others, as in the 

 Chronicles of France, of Germanie, and of the Holy 

 land doeth more plainely appeare. There went also 

 among other divers noble men foorth of this Realme 

 of England, specially that worthily bare the surname 

 of Beauchampe. 



The voyage of Gutwere an English Lady maried 

 to Baldwine brother of Godfreide duke of 

 Bouillon, toward Jerusalem about 1097. And 

 the II. yeere of William Rufus King of 

 England. 



He Christian armie of Godfrie of Bouillon 

 passing the citie of Iconium, alias Agogna 

 in the countrey of Licaonia, and from 

 thence by the city of Heraclia, came 

 at length unto the citie of Marasia, where 

 they encamped, and sojourned there 

 three whole dayes, because of the wife 

 of Baldwine brother germane of the duke of Loraigne. 



293 



A.D. 



c. 1097. 



