PRINCE EDWARD 



A.D. 



1270. 



The Voyage of Prince Edward the sonne of king [ii i. 36.] 

 Henry the third into Asia in the yeere 1270. 



Bout the yeere of our Lord, 1267. Octo- 

 bonus the Popes Legate being in England, 

 prince Edward the sonne of king Henry, 

 and divers other Noble men of England 

 tooke upon them the crosse upon S. John 

 Baptists day, by the sayd Legates hands 

 at Northhampton, to the reliefe of the 

 Holy land, and the subversion of the enemies of the 

 crosse of Christ. For which purpose, and for the better 

 furnishing of the prince towards the journey, there was 

 granted him a subsidie throughout all the realme, and 

 in the moneth of May, in the yeere of our Lord 1270. 

 he began to set forward. 



At Michaelmas following he with his company came 

 to Eguemortes, which is from Marsilia eight leagues 

 Westward, and there taking ship againe (having a mery 

 and prosperous wind) within ten dayes arrived at Tunez, 

 where he was with great joy welcommed, and entertained 

 of the Christian princes that there were to this purpose 

 assembled, as of Philip the French King, whose father 

 Lodovicus died a litle before, of Carolus the king of 

 Sicilia, and the two kings of Navarre and Arragon, and 

 as this lord Edward came thither for his father the king 

 of England, thither came also Henry the sonne of the 

 king of Almaine for his father, who at his returne from 

 the voyage was slaine in a chappell at Viterbium. 



When prince Edward demanded of these kings and 

 princes what was to be done, they answered him againe, 

 and sayd, the prince of this citie and the province 

 adjoyning to the same hath bene accustomed to pay 

 tribute unto the king of Sicily every yere : and now 

 for that the same hath bene for the space of seven 

 yeeres unpaied and more, therefore we thought good 

 to make invasion upon him. But the king knowing 



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