A.D. 



1400. 



Thomas Wnl- 

 singham. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The comming of the Emperor of Constantinople 

 into England, to desire the aide of Henry the 

 4. against the Turkes, 1400. 



Ub eodem tempore Imperator Constantinopolitanus 

 venit in Angliam, postulaturus subsidium contra 

 Turcas. Cui occurrit rex cum apparatu nobili ad 



le Blackheath, die Sancti Thomas Apostilo, suscepitque, 

 [II. i. 71.] prout decuit, tantum Heroem, duxitque Londonias, & 

 per multos dies exhibuit gloriose, pro expensis hospitii 

 sui solvens, & eum respiciens tanto fastigio donativis. 

 Et paulo post : His auditis rumoribus, Imperator laetior 

 recessit ab Anglis, honoratus a rege donariis preciosis. 



The same in English. 



A Bout the same time the emperor of Constantinople 

 came into England, to seeke ayde against the 

 Turkes : whom ye king accompanied with his nobilitie, 

 met withall upon Blackheath upon the day of saint 

 Thomas the Apostle, and received him as beseemed so 

 great a prince, and brought him to London, and roially 

 entertained him for a long season, defraying the charges 

 of his diet, and giving him many honorable presents. 

 And a litle afterward : Upon the hearing of these newes, 

 the emperor departed with great joy out of England, 

 whom the king honoured with many precious gifts. 



The Voiage of the bishop of Winchester to 

 Jerusalem, in the sixt yeere of the reigne of 

 Henry the fift, which was the yeere of our 

 Lord, 1 41 7. Thomas Walsing. 



Ltimo die mensis Octobris, episcopus Wintoniensis 



lii 



accessit ad concilium Constanciense, peregrinaturus 

 Hierosolymam post electionem summi pontificis 

 celebratam, ubi tantum valuit ejus facunda persuasio, ut 

 & excitaret dominos Cardinales ad concordiam, & ad 

 electionem summi pontificis se ocyus praepararent. 



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