ENGLISH AID TO PORTUGAL a.d. 



1415. 



This note following, concerning the ayde and 

 assistance of the English Marchants, given to 

 King John the first of Portugall, for the 

 winning of Ceuta in Barbarie, which was the 

 first occasion of all the Portugall discoveries, 

 is taken out of Thomas Walsingham his 

 Latine Chronicle. Anno 141 5. 



Oc anno Joannes primus Rex Portugalliae fretus 

 auxilio Mercatorum Angliae quam maxime, & 

 Alemannorum, vicit Agarenos in terra Regis 

 Betinarinorum, multis eorum millibus ad generum 

 Cereris destinatis : cepitque civitatem eorum quam 

 amplissimam supra mare sitam, vocatam Ceut eorum 

 lingua. 



The same in English. [II. ii. 2.] 



THis yere John the first king of Portugall, being 

 principally assisted by the helpe of the English 

 Marchants, and Almaines, overcame the Moores in the 

 dominion of the king of Barbary, putting many thousands 

 of them to the sword, and he tooke their city which was 

 very mighty, seated upon the sea, which is called Ceuta 

 in their language. 



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