AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1172. 



1173, 



The voyage of John Lacy to Jerusalem. 



Nno Domini 11 72 fundata fuit abbatia de Stanlaw 

 per dominum Johannem Lacy Constabularium 

 Cestriae & dominum de Halton, qui obiit in 



Terra sancta anno sequenti : qui fuit vicessimus annus 

 regni regis Henrici secundi. 



The same in English. 



IN the yere of our Lord 1172 was founded the abbey 

 of Stanlaw by the lord John Lacy Constable of 

 Chester, & lord of Halton, who deceased in the Holy 

 land the yere following : which was in the twentieth yere 

 of king Henry the second. 



The voyage of William Mandevile to Jerusalem. 



177- ^"X T^Illiam Mandevile earle of Essex, with divers 

 VV EngUsh lords and knights, went to the Holy land 

 in the 24 yere of Henry the second. Holinshed pag. 

 Id. 



English men were the guard of the Emperours 

 of Constantinople in the reigne of John 

 the Sonne of Alexius Comnenus. Malmes- 

 buriensis, Curopolata and Camden, pag. 96. 



Am inde Anglia non minus belli gloria, quam 

 humanitatis cultu inter Florentissimas orbis 

 Christiani gentes inprimis floruit. Adeo ut ad 

 custodiam corporis Constantinopolitanorum Imperatorum 

 evocati fuerint Angli. Joannes enim Alexii Comneni 

 Alius, ut refert noster Malmesburiensis, eorum fidem 

 suspiciens praecipue familiaritati suae applicabat, amorem 

 eorum filio transcribens : Adeo ut jam inde longo tempore 

 fuerint imperatorum illorum satellites, Inglini Bipenniferi 

 Nicetae Choniatas, Barangi Curopolatae dicti. Qui ubique 

 Imperatorem prosequebantur ferentes humeris secures, 



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