A.D. 

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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The travailes of Ranulph Glanvile earle of 

 Chester. 



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Anulphus Glanvile Cestriae Comes, vir nobi- 

 lissimi generis, & utroque jure eruditus, 

 in albo illustrium virorum a me merito 

 ponendus venit. Ita probe omnes adoles- 

 centiae suae annos legibus tum humanis 

 tum divinis consecravit, ut non prius in 

 hominem per setatem evaserit, quam 

 nomen decusque ab insigni eruditione sibi comparaverit. 

 Cum profecti essent Francorum Heroes Ptolemaidem, 

 inito cum Joanne Brenno Hierosolymorum rege concilio, 

 Damiatam ^gypti urbem obsidendam constituebant, 

 anno salutis humanae 121 8. Misit illuc Henricus rex, 

 ab Honorio 3 Rom. Pontifice rogatus, cum magna 

 armatorum manu Ranulphum, ad rem Christianam 

 juvandam. Cujus virtus, Polydoro teste, in eo bello 

 miris omnium laudibus celebrata fuit. Quo confecto 

 negotio, Ranulphus in patriam reversus, scripsit, De 

 legibus Angliae librum unum. Fertur prasterea, & alia 

 quaedam scripsisse, sed tempus edax rerum, ea nobis 

 abstulit. Claruit anno a Servatoris nostri nativitate 1230 

 confectus senio, dum Henricus tertius sub Antichristi 

 tyrannide in Anglia regnaret. 



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The same in English. 



Anulph Glanvile earle of Chester, a man of a very 

 noble house, and learned in both the Lawes, deserves 

 of duetie to be here placed by me in the catalogue of 

 woorthy and notable men. He applied so well all the 

 yeeres of his youth to the study of humane and divine 

 Lawes, that he came not so soone to the age of a man, 

 33.] as he had purchased to himselfe by reason of his singular 

 learning, renowme and honour. When the noble men 

 of France went to Ptolomais, upon the counsell of John 

 Brenne king of Jerusalem, they resolved to besiege 



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