A.D. 

 1556 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A note drawen out of a very ancient booke re- 

 maining in the hands of the right worshipfull 

 M. Thomas Tilney Esquire, touching Sir 

 Frederike Tilney his ancestor, knighted at 

 Aeon in the Holy land for his valour, by K. 

 Richard the first, as foloweth. 



Ertinuit iste liber prius Frederico Tilney 

 de Boston, in comitatu Lincolnias militi 

 facto apud Aeon in terra Judaeae anno 

 regis Richardi primi tertio. Vir erat iste 

 magnae staturae & potens in corpore : qui 

 cum patribus suis dormit apud Tirring- 

 ton juxta villam sui nominis Tilney in 

 Mershland. Cujus altitudo in salva custodia permanet 

 ibidem usque in hunc diem. Ft post ejus obitum sex- 

 decem militibus ejus nominis Tilney haereditas ilia suc- 

 cessive obvenit, quorum unus post alium semper habitabat 

 apud Boston praedictum : dum fratris senioris haereditas 

 haeredi generali devoluta est, quae nupta est Johanni duci 

 Norfolciae. Forum miles ultimus fuit Philippus Tilney 

 nuper de Shelleigh in Comitatu Suifolciae, pater & 

 genitor Thomas Tilney de Hadleigh in Comitatu praedicto 

 Armigeri, cui modo attinet iste liber. Anno aetatis suae 

 64. Anno Domini 1556. 



The same in English. 



THis booke pertained in times past unto Sir Frederick 

 Tilney of Boston in the Countie of Lincolne, who 

 was knighted at Aeon in the land of Jurie, in the third 

 yeere of the reigne of king Richard the first. This 

 knight was of a tall stature, and strong of body, who 

 resteth interred with his forefathers at Tirrington, neere 

 unto a towne in Marshland called by his owne name 

 Tilney. The just height of this knight is there kept in 

 safe custody untill this very day. Also, after this mans 

 decease, the inheritance of his landes fell successively unto 



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