A.D. 



I390. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The voyage of Henrie Earle of Derbie, after 

 Duke of Hereford, and lastly Henry the fourth 

 king of England, to Tunis in Barbarie, with 

 an army of Englishmen written by Polidore 

 Virgin, pag. 1389. 



Ranci interim per inducias nacti ocium, ac 

 simul Genuensium precibus defatigati, 

 bellum in Afros, qui omnem cram in- 

 sulasque Italias latrociniis infestas redde- 

 bant, suscipiunt. Richardus quoque rex 

 Angliae rogatus auxilium, mittit Henricum 

 comitem Derbiensem cum electa Anglicae 

 pubis manu ad id bellum faciendum. Igitur Franci 

 Anglique viribus & animis consociatis in Africam traji- 

 ciunt, qui ubi littus attigere, eatenus a Barbaris de- 

 scensione prohibiti sunt, quoad Anglorum sagittariorum 

 virtu te factum est, ut aditus pateret : in terram egressi 

 recta Tunetam urbem regiam petunt, ac obsident. Barbari 

 timore affecti de pace ad eos legates mittunt, quam nostris 

 dare placuit, ut soluta certa pecuniae summa ab omni 

 deinceps Italiae, Galliasque era manus abstinerent. Ita 

 peractis rebus post paucos menses, quam eo itum erat, 

 domum repediatum est. 



The same in English. 



THe French in the meane season having gotten some 

 leasure by meanes of their truce, and being sollicited 

 and urged by the intreaties of the Genuois undertooke to 

 wage warre against the Moores, who robbed and spoyled 

 all the coasts of Italy, and of the Ilandes adjacent. 

 Likewise Richard the second, king of England, being 

 sued unto for ayde, sent Henry the Earle of Derbie 

 with a choice armie of English souldiers unto the same 

 warfare. Wherefore the English and French, with forces 

 and mindes united, sayled over into Africa, who when 

 they approched unto the shore were repelled by the 



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