A.D. 

 1360. 



An. 2. y 



Edwardi 

 tertii. 



An. Dom. 

 1390. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



name) to Island, it is not above a fortnights sailing with 

 an ordinarie winde, and hath bene of many yeeres a 

 very common and usuall trade : which further appeareth 

 by the privileges granted to the Fishermen of the towne 

 of Blacknie in the said Countie of Norfolke, by king 

 Edward the third, for their exemption and freedome from 

 his ordinary service, in respect of their trade to Island. 



The voyage of Henry Earle of Derbie, after 

 Duke of Hereford, and lastly king of Eng- 

 land, by the name of Henry the fourth,, 

 An. Dom. 1390. into Prussia and Lettov^e, 

 against the infidels, recorded by Thomas of 

 Walsingham. 



Ominus Henricus Comes de Derbie per 

 idem tempus profectus est in le Pruys, 

 ubi cum adjutorio marescalli diets patriae, 

 & cujusdam Regis vocati Wytot devicit 

 exercitum Regis de Lettowe, captis qua- 

 tuor ducibus, & tribus peremptis, & 

 amplius quam trecentis, de valentioribus 

 exercitus supradicti pariter interemptis. Civitas quoque 

 \\ Alias Vilna. vocatur il Will, in cujus castellum Rex de Lettowe nomine 

 Skirgalle confugerat, potenti virtute dicti Comitis maxime, 

 [I. 123.] atque suorum capta est. Namque qui fuerunt de familia 

 sua primi murum ascenderant, & vexillum ejus super 

 muros, ceteris vel torpentibus vel ignorantibus, posuerunt. 

 Captaque sunt ibi vel occisa quatuor millia plebanorum, 

 fratre Regis de Poleyn inter caeteros ibi perempto, qui 

 adversarius nostri fuit. Obsessumque fuit castrum dictae 

 Civitatis per quinque hebdomadas : Sed propter infirmi- 

 tates, quibus vexabatur exercitus magistri de Pruys & de 

 Lifland noluerunt diutius expectare. Facti sunt Christiani 

 de gente de Lettowe octo. Et magister de Lifland duxit 

 secum in suam patriam tria millia captivorum. 



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