A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1331- 



Pope aforesaid, under the hand of the publique notary 



in these words following. 



In the yeere of our Lord 133 1, the 14. day of Janu- 



arie, Beatus Odoricus a Frier minorite deceased in 



Christ, at whose prayers God shewed many and sundry 



miracles, which I Guetelus publique notarie of Utina, 



Sonne of M. Damianus de Porto Gruaro, at the com- 



mandement and direction of the honorable Conradus of 



the Borough of Gastaldion, and one of the Councell of 



Utina, have written as faithfully as I could, and have 



delivered a copie thereof unto the Friers minorites : 



howbeit not of all, because they are innumerable, and 



too difficult for me to write. 



The voyage of Matthev^ Gourney, a most valiant 

 English Knight, against the Moores of Algier 

 in Barbarie and Spaine. M. Camden pag. 159. 



Ec tacendum Matthaeum Gourney in oppido 

 quodam, vulgari lingua Stoke under Hamden 

 in comitatu Somersetensi appellato, sepultum esse. 



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virum bellicosissimum regnante Edwardo tertio : qui 

 96. aetatis anno diem obivit, cum (ut ex inscriptione 

 videre licuit) obsidioni d' Algizer contra Saracenos, 

 praeliis Benamazin, Sclusensi, Cressiaco, Ingenos, Pic- 

 taviensi, & Nazarano in Hispania dimicasset. 



The same in English. 



T is by no meanes to be passed over in silence, 



that Matthew Gourney, being a most valiant warriour 



In the reigne in the reigne of Edward the third, lyeth buried at a 



of Edward the certaine towne, in the countie of Somerset, commonly 



^ ^' ' called Stoke under Hamden : who deceased in the 96. 



yeare of his age ; and that (as it is manifest by the 



inscription of his monument) after he had valiantly 



behaved himselfe at the siege of Algizer against the 



Sarazens, and at the battailes of Benamazin, of Sluce, 



of Cressie, of Ingenos, of Poictou, and of Nazaran in 



Spaine. 



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