IN the name of God Almightie. He that will passe over the sea, he may go many wayes both by sea and by lande, after the countreys that he cometh from, and many of them cometh to one ende, but think not that I will tell all the townes, cities & castelles that men shall goe by, for then I should make to long a tale, but only some countries and most principall cities and townes that men shall go by and through to go the right way. First, if a man come from the west side of the worlde as England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Norway, he may if he wyl, go through Almayne[1] and throughout the Kingdome of Hungary, which Kinge is a great lord and a mightie, and holdeth many landes & great, for he holdeth the land of Hungarie, Savoy,[2] Camonie,[3] a great part of Bulgary, that men call the land of Bugres, and a great part of the Kingdome of Rossie,[4] and that lasteth to the land of Mifland,[5] and marcheth on Siprus,[5] and men passe thus through the land of Hungary and through the Citie that men call Cipanum,[6] and through the castell of Nuburgh,[7] and by the yll Torwe,[8] towarde the ende of Hungarie and so by the river of Danubie, that is a full great ryver and goeth into Almayne, under the hilles of Lumbardy, and it taketh into him 40 other ryvers and it runneth throughout Hungary and through Cresses[9] and Crochie,[9] and goeth into the sea so strongely and with so great might that the water is freshe xxx[10] myle within the sea and afterwards go men to Belgrave[11] and entereth the lande of Bugres and there pass men a bridge of stone that is over the river Marrock,[12] and so men passe through the lande of Pinseras[13] and come to Grece to the citie of Stermis,[14] and to the citie of Affinpane,[15] that was sometime called Bradre[16] the noble and so to the citie of Constantinople that was sometime called Bessameron[17] and there dwelleth commonly the Emperor of Grece. [Illustration] At Constantinople is the best and the fairest church of the worlde, and it is of sainct Steven.[18] And before this church is a gylte image of Justinian the Emperour, and it is sitting upon an horse and crowned, and it was wont to holde a round appell[19] in his hand, & men say there that it is a token that the Emperour hath lost a part of his landes, for the appell is fallen out of the images hand: and also he hath lost a great parte of his lordshippe. For he was wont to be Emperour of Rome, of Grece, and of all Asia the lesse, of Surry, and of the land of Jude,[20] in the which is Jerusalem, & of the land of Egipt, of Percie & Arabia, but he hath lost all but Grece, and that lande he holdeth all onely. Men would put the appell in the images hande, but it will not holde it. This appell betokeneth the lordship that he had over all the world, and the other hand he lifteth up against the East,[21] in token to manasse[22] misdoers. This image standeth upon a pyller of marble. [Illustration]