A.D. 



II Filius natu 

 minimus 

 Edwardi 3. 



Reditus. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The voyage of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of 

 Glocester into Prussia, in the yeere 1391. 

 written by Thomas Walsingham. 



Odem tempore dux Glovernias Dominus 

 II Thomas de Woodstock, multis moerenti- 

 bus, iter apparavit versus le Pruys : quern 

 non Londinensium gemitus, non com- 

 munis vulgi moeror retinere poterant, quin 

 proficisci vellet. Nam plebs communis 

 tam Urbana quam rustica metuebant quod 

 eo absente aliquod novum detrimentum succresceret, quo 

 prassente nihil tale timebant. Siquidem in eo spes & 

 solatium totius patrias reposita videbantur. Ipse vero mox, 

 ut fines patrias suae transiit, illico adversa agitatus fortuna, 

 nunc hac nunc iliac turbinibus procellosis circumfertur ; & 

 in tantum destituitur, ut de vita etiam desperaret. Tan- 

 dem post Daciam, post Norwagiam, post Scoticam bar- 

 bariem non sine mortis pavore transcursam, pervenit 

 Northumbriam, & ad castellum se contulit de Tinnemutha 

 velut assylum antiquitus notum sibi : ubi per aliquot dies 

 recreatus, iter assumpsit versus manerium suum de 

 Plashy, magnum apportans gaudium toti regno, tam de 

 ejus evasione, quam de adventu suo. 



The same in English. 



AT the same time the Duke of Glocester Lord Thomas 

 of Woodstock (the yongest sonne of Edward the 

 third) to the great griefe of many, tooke his journey 

 towards Prussia : whom neither the Londoners mones nor 

 yet the lamentation of the communaltie could restraine 

 from his intended expedition. For the common people 

 both of the Citie and of the countrey feared lest in his 

 absence some newe calamitie might happen ; which they 

 feared not while he was present. For in him the whole 

 nation seemed to repose their hope and comfort. Howbeit 

 having skarce passed as yet the bounds of his owne 



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