NICHOLAS DE LYNNA 



demaunds. Whereupon the king of England being pro- 

 voked, speedily prepared himselfe and his forces to crosse 

 the seas, carying with him Edward Prince of Wales his 

 heire apparant, and Henry duke of Lancaster and almost 

 all his Nobles, with a thousand wagons and cartes attend- 

 ing upon them. And the said king had at Sandwich 

 eleven hundred ships exceedingly well furnished : with 

 which preparation he passed over the seas, to abate 

 the Frenchmens arrogancie : leaving his yonger sonne 

 Thomas of Woodstocke, being very tender of age, as 

 his vicegerent in the Realme of England ; albeit not 

 without a protectour, &c. 



The voyage of Nicholas de Lynna a Franciscan 

 Frier, and an excellent Mathematician of 

 Oxford, to all the Regions situate under 

 the North pole, in the yeere 1360. and in 

 the raigne of Edward the 3. king of 

 England. 



A.D. 



1360. 



Uod ad descriptionem partium Septen- 

 trionalium attinet, earn nos accipimus 

 ex Itinerario Jacobi Cnoyen Buscodu- 

 censis, qui quaedam ex rebus gestis 

 Arthuri Britanni citat, majorem autem 

 partem & potiora, a Sacerdote quodam 

 apud Regem Noruegi^, An. Dom. 1364. 

 didicit. Descenderat is ex illis quos Arthurus ad has 

 habitandas insulas miserat, & referebat, An. 1360. Mino- 

 ritam quendam Anglum Oxoniensem Mathematicum in 

 eas insulas venisse, ipsisque relictis ad ulteriora arte 

 Magica profectum descripsisse omnia, & Astrolabio 

 dimensum esse in banc subjectam formam fere, uti ex 

 Jacobo collegimus. Euripos illos quatuor dicebat tanto 

 impetu ad interiorem voraginem rapi, ut naves semel 

 ingressas nullo vento retroagi possent, neque vero un- 

 quam tantum ibi ventum esse, ut mola? frumentariae 

 circumagends sufficiat. Simillima his habet Giraldus 



The words of 

 Gerardus 

 Mercator, in 

 the foote of his 

 genei'al Map^ 

 upon the de- 

 scription of the 

 North partes. 



