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The same in English. 



William the Prior of the Canons Regular in the 

 Church of Jerusalem, called the Lords Sepul- 

 chre, was an Englishman borne, and of a vertuous and 

 good behaviour. After that the Citie of Tyre was 

 restored againe to the Christian faith, Guimunde the 

 Patriarke of Jerusalem made him the first Archbishop 

 of Tyre, in the yeere 1128. Which Tyre is a very 

 ancient Citie, the Metropolis of all Phoenicia, and hath 

 bene accompted the chiefest Province of Syria, both 

 for fruitful commodities and multitude of inhabitants. 

 This William having in his life written many Bookes 

 and Epistles, died at last in the yeere 1130. having 

 bene Archbishop the space of two yeeres, and was 

 buried in the Church of Tyre. 



The travailes of Robertus Ketenensis. 



Obertus Ketenensis natione & cognomine 

 Anglus, degustatis primum per Anglorum 

 gymnasia humanarum artium elementis 

 literariis, ultramarinas statim visitare pro- 

 vincias in animo constituit : Peragratis 

 ergo Galliis, Italia, Dalmatia, & Graecia, 

 * tum demum pervenit in Asiam, ubi non 

 parvo labore, ac vitas suae periculo inter Saracenos 

 truculentissimum hominum genus, Arabicam linguam 

 ad amussim didicit. In Hispaniam postea navigio tra- 

 ductus, circa fluvium Hiberum Astrological artis studio, 

 Claruit sub cum Hermanno quodam Dalmata, magni sui itineris 

 Stephana. comite se totum dedit. Claruit anno servatoris nostri, 

 1 143 Stephano regnante, & Pampilonae sepelitur. 



The same in English. 



THis Robert Ketenensis was called an Englishman 

 by surname, as he was by birth : who after some 

 time spent in the foundations of humanitie, and in the 



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