AD. 

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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



the fortieth part of all the revenues belonging unto 

 ecclesiasticall persons, towards the ayd of the Christians 

 then being in the Holy land : and all such aswel of the 

 nobility, as other of the weaker sort, which had taken 

 upon them the crosse, and secretly layed it downe were 

 compelled eftsoones to receive it now againe. 



The travailes of Hubert Walter bishop of 

 Sarisburie. 



Ubertus Walterus Sarisburiensis Epis- 

 copus, vir probus, ingenioque ac pietate 

 clarus, inter praecipuos unus eorum erat, 

 qui post Richardum regem expugnan- 

 dorum Saracenorum gratia in Syriam 

 proficiscebantur. Cum ex Palaestina 

 rediens, audiret in Sicilia, quod idem 

 Richardus in inimicorum manus incidisset, omisso itinere 

 incoepto, ad eum cursim divertebat : Quem & ille statim 

 in Angliam misit, ut illic regii Senatus authoritate, indicto 

 pro ejus redemptione tributo pecuniam colligeret, quod 

 & industrius fecit ac regem liberavit. Inde Cantuario- 

 rum Archiepiscopus factus, post ejus mortem Joanni 

 illius fratri ac successori paria fidelitatis officia prasstitit. 

 Longa enim oratione toti Anglorum nationi persuasit, 

 quod vir providus, praestans, fortis, genere nobilissimus, 

 & imperio dignissimus esset : quo salutatus a populo 

 fuit, atque in regem coronatus. Composuit quaedam 

 opuscula, & ex immenso animi dolore demum obiisse 

 fertur. Anno salutis humanae 1205. cum sedisset annos 

 II. Menses octo, & dies sex: quum vidisset ex intestinis 

 odiis, omnia in transmarinis regionibus pessum ire, 

 regnante Joanne. 



The same in English. 



Hubert Walter bishop of Sarisburie, a vertuous man, 

 and famous for his good wit and piety, was one 

 of the chiefest of them that followed king Richard into 

 Syria going against the Saracens. As he returned from 



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