AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1390. 



they had got to land, they invironed the city of Africa 

 (called by the Moores Mahdia) with a strong siege : but 

 at length, constrained with the intemperancy of the scald- 

 ing ayre in that hot countrey, breeding in the army 

 sundry diseases, they fell to a composition upon certaine 

 articles to be performed in the behalfe of the Saracens : 

 and so 61 dayes after their arrivall there they tooke the 

 seas againe, and returned home, as in the histories of 

 France and Genoa is likewise expressed. Where, by 

 Polydore Virgil it may seeme, that the lord Henry of 

 Lancaster earle of Derby should be generall of the 

 English men, that (as before you heard) went into 

 Barbary with the French men and Genouois. 



The memorable victories in divers parts of Italie 

 of John Hawkwood English man in the reigne 

 of Richard the second, briefly recorded by M. 

 Camden, pag. 339. 



D alteram ripam fluvii Colne oppositus est Sibble 

 Heningham, locus natalis, ut accepi, Joannis 

 Hawkwoodi (Itali Aucuthum corrupte vocant) 



quem illi tantopere ob virtutem militarem suspexerunt, 

 ut Senatus Florentinus propter insignia merita equestri 

 statua & tumuli honore in eximiae fortitudinis, fideique 

 testimonium ornavit. Res ejus gestas Itali pleno ore 

 praedicant ; & Paulus Jovius in elogiis celebrat : sat mihi 

 sit Julii Feroldi tetrastichon adjicere. 



Hawkwoode Anglorum decus, & decus addite genti 



Italicae, Italico presidiiimque solo, 

 Ut tumuli quondam Florentia, sic simulachri 



Virtutem Jovius donat honore tuam. 



William Thomas in his Historic of the common 

 wealthes of Italy, maketh honorable mention of him 

 twise, to wit, in the common wealth of Florentia and 

 Ferrara. 



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