A.D. 



II47. 



7.] 



ENGLISHMEN WITH KING LEAVIS 



elements of good Artes in the Universities of England, 

 determined to travaile to the partes beyond sea : and 

 so travailed through France, Italie, Dalmatia, and 

 Greece, and came at last into Asia, where he lived in 

 great danger of his life among the cruell Saracens, but 

 yet learned perfectly the Arabian tongue. Afterwardes 

 he returned by sea into Spaine, and there about the 

 river Iberus, gave him selfe wholy to the studie of 

 Astrologie, with one Hermannus a Dalmatian, who had 

 accompanied him in his long voyage. He flourished 

 in the yeere 1143. Steven being then King of England, 

 and was buried at Pampilona. 



A voyage of certaine English men under the [^i- 

 conduct of Lewes king of France unto the 

 Holy land. 



Antae expeditionis explicito apparatu uter- n-f?* 

 que princeps iter arripuit, & exercitu tempore regis 



5. T . ' n A Stepham 



separtito. imperator enim Conradus prae- ^ 



cedebat itinere aliquot dierum, cum Ital- 

 orum, Germanorum, aliarumque gentium 

 amplissimis copiis. Rex vero Lodovicus 

 sequebatur Francorum, Flandrensium, 

 Normannorum, Britonum, Anglorum, Burgundionum, 

 Provincialium, Aquitanorum, equestri simul & pedestri 

 agmine comitatus. Gulielmus Neobrigensis, fol. 371. 



The same in English. 



BOth the princes provision being made for so great an 

 expedition, they severing their armies, entered on 

 their journey. For the Emperour Conradus went before, 

 certaine dayes journey, with very great power of Italians, 

 Germans, and other countreys. And king Lewes fol- 

 lowed after accompanied with a band of horsemen and 

 footmen of French men, Flemmings, Normans, Britons, 

 English men, Burgundions, men of Provence, and 

 Gascoins. 



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