GODERICK A PIRATE ad. 



I I02. 



Mention made of one Godericus, a valiant English- 

 man, who was with his ships in the voyage 

 unto the Holy land in the second yeere of 

 Baldwine King of Jerusalem, in the third yere 

 of Henry the first of England. 



Hronicon Hierosolymitanum lib. 9. cap. 

 9. Verum dehinc septem diebus evolutis 

 rex ab Assur exiens, navem quae dicitur 

 Buza ascendit, & cum eo Godericus 

 pirata de regno Anglic, ac vexillo hastae 

 prasfixo & elato in aere ad radios solis 

 usque, Japhet cum paucis navigavit, ut 

 hoc ejus signo cives Christiani recognito, fiduciam vitae 

 regis haberent, & non facile hostium minis pavefacti, 

 turpiter diifugium facerent, aut urbem reddere cogerentur. 

 Sciebat enim eos multum de vita & salute ejus desperare. 

 Saraceni autem viso ejus signo, & recognito, ea parte 

 quae urbem navigio cingebat illi in galeis viginti &" 

 Carinis tredecim, quas vulgo appellant Cazh, occurrerunt, 

 volentes Buzam regis coronare. Sed Dei auxilio undis 

 maris illis ex adverse tumescentibus ac reluctantibus, Buza 

 autem regis facili, & agili cursu inter procellas labente, 

 ac volitante, in portu Joppas delusis hostibus subito affuit, 

 sex ex Saracenis in arcu suo in navicula percussis, ac 

 vulneratis. Intrans itaque civitatem dum incolumis 

 omnium pateret oculis, revixit spiritus cunctorum gemen- 

 tium & de ejus morte hactenus dolentium, eo quod caput 

 & rex Christianorum & princeps Hierusalem adhuc vivus 

 & incolumis receptus sit. 



The same in English. 



BUt seven dayes afterward, the King comming out of 

 the towne of Assur entred into a shippe called a 

 Busse, and one Godericke a pirate of the kingdome ot 

 England with him, and fastening his banner on the toppe 

 of a speare, and holding it up aloft in the aire against 



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