A LARGE CONTRIBUTION 



The same in English. 



William the Pilgrime, a very excellent Poet in those 

 dayes and an Englishman borne, was of great 

 fame, being much given to good letters, (as many then 

 were) and bestowed his good time in the best kinde of 

 studies. Hee understanding of the preparation of king 

 Richard against the Saracens, prepared himselfe also for 

 the same voyage, not onely as a Souldiour, but as a 

 Pilgrime also. He sawe those things which happened in 

 the Spanish Seas, and which were done in Syria and 

 Palestina, against the Sultan the king of Babylon, and the 

 trecherous Saracens. All which things he wrote and 

 expressed them as it were in lively colours, as if they had 

 bene still in doing before his eyes, and handled the same 

 Argument in Heroicall verse which the forenamed 

 Richard Canonicus did. And having finished his worke 

 he dedicated it to Hubert Archbishop of Canterburie, and 

 to Stephen Turneham a most expert Captaine of the 

 warres, giving it this Title, The expedition of King 

 Richard. And I doubt not but that so good a Poet as 

 hee was published many other things, but whether they 

 be extant yea or no, I know not : but this I know, that 

 he was a man well accounted of, and flourished in the 

 yeere after the birth of Christ 1200. under king John. 



The large contribution to the succour of the [H 

 Holy land, made by king John king of 

 England, in the third yeere of his reigne 1201. 

 Matth. Paris and Holinsh. pag. 164. 



T the same time also the kings of France 

 and England gave large money towards 

 the maintenance of the army which at 

 this present went foorth under the lead- 

 ing of the earle of Flanders and other, 

 to warre against the enemies of the 

 Christian faith at the instance of pope 

 Innocent. There was furthermore granted unto them 



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