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culå fuå infurgit: Edward the firft having prepared a
great Fleet of Skips for å journey into Flanders, and
being at Winckelfey, where the Skips were to meet,it
happeneth, &c. i. e. Edoardus Primus validå inftrudus
clatTe , ut in Flandriam bellatum concederet, cum
Winckelfei fubfilleret, loco conventui navigiorum
deftinato, contigit ut &c. Hic Edoardus Primus juve-
nis, Patre adhuc imperante, cum exercitu res magnas
geflit inTerrå Sandå, morte tandem Ludovtct Sanft iGa\-
Jorum Regis »qvem itidem Chriftianas res ftrenué pro-
pugnantem Africa exftinxitjfufflaminatus in mediis co-
natibus interqvievit, in Angliam regreflus; qvem pro-
pterea Lud tus propagandæ fidei Chriftianæ inter Paga-
nos follicité intentus , Cex illis auri millionibus, ad re-
ditum in Terram Sandam fefti nandum animare para-
bat. Nam Edoardorum Regum præcerea nemo vel
Terram Sanftam invafit,vel adeoinvafurum fe fe often-
dit, Qyid autem præftiterit in Terra Sanda Edoardus
Primus turn ipfe, turn Eleonora uxor, exemplum læmi- Ed ur di
neæ in maritos devotionis, meretur extra Britannia«
qvoqj audiri. Sic ergo Edward Leigh: Edward the fir ft uxorfæ-
Was abfent in the holy Land, when bis father died. At bis fir ft
coming to the holy Land) be refeued the great city of Aeon,
from being (urrendred to the. Sultan, after which, out of en-
vy to bis valour one Anzazim, a deff crate Saracen, who had
often been employed to him from their Generally being one ti- exewplu.
me, upon pretence of fome fecret meffage, admitted alone in-
to his chamber, with a poyfonet Knife gave him three Wounds
in the body, two in the arm, and one tn tbe armpit* which
had been mortali, if out of unffeakable love , tbe Lady
Elenor bis Wife bad not fuckt out the poifon of bis wounds
j S 2 with