A.D. 



1538. 



is 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



both at his conquest of Barbaric, and at his siege at 

 Tunis, as also in other places. Who had given him by 

 the sayd Emperour for his valiant deedes the order of 

 Barbary. Who dyed the 29 day of December, in the 

 yeere of our Lord God 1566. 



The voyage of Sir Thomas Chaloner to Alger 

 w^ith Charles the fift 1541, drawen out of his 

 booke De Republica Anglorum instauranda. 



Homas Chalonerus patria Londinensis, 

 studio Cantabrigensis, educatione aulicus, 

 religione pius, vereque Christianus fuit. 

 Itaque cum juvenilem aetatem, mentem- 

 que suam humanioribus studiis roborasset, 

 Domino Henrico Knevetto a potentis- 

 simo rege Henrico ejus nominis octavo 

 ad Carolum quintum imperatorem transmisso legato, una 

 cum illo profectus est, tanquam familiaris amicus, vel 

 eidem a consiliis. Quo quidem tempore Carolo quinto 

 navali certamine a Genua & Corsica in Algyram in Africa 

 contra Turcas classem solvente ac hostiliter proficiscente, 

 ornatissimo illo Knevetto legato regis, Thoma Chalo- 

 nero, Henrico Knolleo, & Henrico Isamo, illustribus 

 viris eundem in ilia expeditione suapte sponte sequenti- 

 bus, pariterque militantibus, mirifice vitam suam Chalo- 

 nerus tutatus est. Nam triremi ilia, in qua fuerat, vel 

 scopulis allisa, vel gravissimis procellis conquassata, 

 naufragus cum se diu natatu defendisset, deficientibus 

 viribus, brachiis manibusque languidis ac quasi enervatis, 

 prehensa dentibus cum maxima difficultate rudenti, qua^ 

 ex altera triremi jam propinqua tum fuerat ejecta, non 

 sine dentium aliquorum jactura ac fractura sese tandem 

 recuperavit, ac domum integer relapsus est. 



The same in English. 



T Homas Chaloner was by birth a Londiner, by studie 

 a Cantabrigian, by education a Courtier, by religion 

 a devout and true Christian. Therfore after he had 



