AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1270. 



consent. Which princes and messengers standing aloofe 

 oiF from the kings sonne, worshipping him, fell flat 

 upon the ground : you (sayd the prince) do reverence 

 me, but yet you love me not. But they understood 

 him not, because he spake in English unto them, 

 speaking by an Interpreter : neverthelesse he honour- 

 ably entertained them, and sent them away in peace. 



Thus when prince Edward had beene eighteene 

 moneths in Acra, he tooke shipping about the Assump- 

 tion of our Lady, as we call it, returning homeward, 

 and after seven weekes he arrived in Sicilia at Trapes, 

 and from thence travailed thorow the middes of Apulia, 

 till he came to Rome, where he was of the Pope 

 honorably entertained. 



From thence he came into France, whose fame and 

 noble prowesse was there much bruted among the 

 common people, and envied of the Nobility, especially 

 of the earle of Chalons, who thought to have intrapped 

 him and his company, as may appeare in the story : 

 but Prince Edward continued foorth his journey to 

 Paris, and was there of the French king honourably 

 entertained : and after certaine dayes he went thence 

 into Gascoine, where he taried till that he heard of 

 the death of the king his father, at which time he 

 came home, and was crowned king of England, in the 

 yere of our Lord 1274. 



The travaile of Robert Turneham. 



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Obertus Turneham Franciscanus, Theologi^ pro- 

 fessor insignis, Lynnae celebri Irenorum ad ripas 

 Isidis emporio, collegio suorum fratrum magni- 

 fice praefuit. Edwardus Princeps, cognomento Longus, 

 [11. i. 39.] Henrici tertii Alius, bellicam expeditionem contra Sara- 

 cenos Assyriam incolentes, anno Dom. 1268. parabat. 

 Ad quam profectionem quassitus quoque Orator vehe- 

 mens, qui plebis in causa religionis animos excitaret, 

 Turnehamus principi visus vel dignissimus est, qui 

 munus hoc obiret. Sic tanquam signifer constitutus 



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