A.D. 



.1402. 

 AlgcLcr in 

 Granado. 

 Layas in 

 Armenia. 

 Froysart. lib. 

 3. cap. 40. 

 Satalie in the 

 mayne of Asia 

 neere Rhods. 

 Tremisen is in 

 Barbarie. 

 II Or, Palice 

 Froysart lib. 

 3. cap. 40. 

 Turkie. 

 The time 

 when Chaucer 

 wrote, is thus 

 mentioned in 

 the end of 

 his letter of 

 Cupide. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



At Algezer : and ridden in Belmarye : 



At Leyes was hee, and also at Satalye, 



When they were wonne : and in the great see 



at many a Noble armie had hee bee. 



At mortall battailes had he bin fifteene, 



And foughten for our faith at Tramissen, 



in listes thries, and aye slayne his foe : 



This ilke worthie Knight had bin also, 

 sometime with the lord of II Palathye 

 ayenst another Heathen in Turkie. 



Written in the lustie moneth of May 

 in our Palace, where many a million 

 of lovers true have habitation. 

 The yeere of grace joyfull and jocond, 

 a thousand, foure hundred and second. 



The original, proceedings and successe of the 



Northren domestical and forren trades and traf- 



fiques of this Isle of Britain from the time of Nero 



the Emperour, who deceased in the yeere of our 



Lord 70. under the Romans, Britons, Saxons, and 



Danes, till the conquest : and from the conquest, 



untill this present time, gathered out of 



the most authenticall histories 



and records of this 



nation. 



A testimonie out of the fourteenth Booke of the 

 Annales of Cornelius Tacitus, prooving London 

 to have bene a famous Mart Towne in the 

 reigne of Nero the Emperour, v^hich died in 

 the yeere of Christ 70. 



T Suetonius mira constantia medios inter hostes 

 Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloniae 

 non insigne, sed copia negociatorum & commeatu 

 maxime celebre. 



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