BISHOP PETER OF WINCHESTER ad. 



1231 



Damiata a city of Egypt, in the yeere 121 8. And then 

 Henry the king upon the motion of Honorius the third, 

 bishop of Rome, sent thither this earle Ranulph with a 

 great power of armed souldiers, to further the enterprise 

 of the Christians : whose valure in that warre (by the 

 testimonie of Polidor Virgil) was marveilously com- 

 mended of all men. After the end of which businesse, 

 he being returned into his countrey, wrote a booke of 

 the lawes of England. It is also reported that he wrote 

 other books, but time the destroyer of many memorials, 

 hath taken them from us. He flourished in the yeere 

 after the nativity of Christ 1230, being very aged, and 

 in the reigne of K. Henry the third. 



The voyage of Petrus de Rupibus bishop of Win- 

 chester, to Jerusalem in the yere of grace 

 1 23 1, and in the 15 of Henry the third. 



Nno gratias 123 1, mense vero Julio, Petrus Win- 

 toniensis episcopus, completo in terra sancta jam 

 fere per quinquennium magnifice peregrinationis 



voto, reversus est in Angliam, Kalendis Augusti ; & 

 Wintoniam veniens, susceptus est cum processione 

 solenni in sua ecclesia cathedrali. 



The same in English. 



IN the yere of grace 123 1, and in the moneth of July, 

 Peter bishop of Winchester having spent almost five 

 whole yeres in fulfilling his vow of pilgrimage in the 

 Holy land with great pompe, returned into England, 

 about the Kalends of August, and comming unto Win- 

 chester was received with solemne procession into his 

 cathedrali church. 



[The honourable 

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