WILLIAM OF TYRE ad. 



1130- 

 turn demum revertebatur. Claruit anno virginei partus, 

 1 130. Henrico primo regnante. 



The same in English. 



AThelard a Monke of the Abbie of Bathe was so 

 diligent a searcher of the secrets, and causes of 

 naturall things, that he deserveth worthely to be com- 

 pared with some of the auncient Philosophers. This 

 man although young, yet being of a good wit, and 

 being desirous to increase and enrich the same with the 

 best things, and to prepare himselfe as it were for 

 greater matters, left his Countrey for a time, and 

 travailed into forreine Regions. He went through 

 Egypt, and Arabia, and found out many things which 

 he desired to his owne private contentment, and the 

 protite of good letters generally, and so being satisfied, 

 returned againe into his Countrey : he flourished in 

 the yeere 11 30. Henry the first being then king of 

 England. 



^ The life and travailes of one William of Tyre, 

 an Englishman. Centur. 13. 



Ulielmus, Ecclesia^ Dominici sepulchri Hk etiam 



Hierosolymae Regularium Canonicorum Gutheimus 



prior, natione AnMicus vir vita & mori- y^^^/J^ 

 1 J 1 -I- A T^ r> <^^^rutt sub 



bus commendabins. Anno Dom. 1128. Henrkoprh 



postquam Tyrorum Civitas fidei Chris- 

 tianas restituta est a Guimundo Hiero- 

 solymorum patriarcha, eidem urbi primus 

 Archiepiscopus prsficiebatur. Est autem Tyrus civitas 

 antiquissima, Phoenicias universae Metropolis, quae inter 

 Syriae provincias, & bonorum omnium pene commodi- 

 tate, & incolarum frequentia primum semper obtinuit 

 locum : post conscripta quaedam opuscula, & Epistolas, 

 ad Dominum migravit. An. Christi 1130. quum duobus 

 tantum sedisset annis, & in Tyrensi Ecclesia sepelitur. 



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