[Footnote 9: Cresses is rendered in other editions as Grece or Greece, but this is impossible, as also is Crochie, which _Pynson_ calls Tracy, and others call Thracie or Thrace. It probably means Croatia, and he has muddled up the Save or Sau, a tributary to the Danube, which rises not far from Lombardy, joining the Danube at Belgrade.] [Footnote 10: _Pynson_ and others say 20 miles.] [Footnote 11: Belgrade.] [Footnote 12: Now called the Morava.] [Footnote 13: _Pynson_ says Pynteras, others Pyncemartz, and Pyncoras.] [Footnote 14: _Pynson_ says Sternys, others Sternes, or Scernys.] [Footnote 15: Written elsewhere Affynpayn, Assynpayn, and ad fines Epapie.] [Footnote 16: This will best explain the difficulty of placing the localities, for this means Adrianople.] [Footnote 17: Byzantium, the ancient name for Constantinople, the seat of the Western Empire.] [Footnote 18: _Pynson_ has Sophy, now the Mosque of St Sophia.] [Footnote 19: Probably an orb.] [Footnote 20: Judæa.] [Footnote 21: _Pynson_ says West, but others give East.] [Footnote 22: Menace.] [Footnote 23: The names of the penitent and impenitent thieves vary slightly in different accounts. In the Apocryphal book of Nicodemus, cap. 7, vv. 10, 11, they are thus given: "But one of the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus, whose name was Gestas, said to Jesus, If thou art the Christ, deliver thyself and us. But the thief who was crucified on his right hand, whose name was Dimas, answering, rebuked him, and said, Dost thou not fear God, who art condemned to this punishment? We indeed receive rightly and justly the demerit of our actions: but this Jesus, what evil hath he done?" But in the Apocryphal book, I. Infancy, cap. 8, vv. 1-7 (a Nestorian and Gnostic book), the names are given differently: "In their journey from hence they came into a desert country, and were told it was infested with robbers; so Joseph and St. Mary prepared to pass through it in the night. And, as they were going along, behold they saw two robbers asleep in the road, and with them a great number of robbers, who were their confederates, also asleep. The names of those two were Titus and Dumachus; and Titus said to Dumachus, I beseech thee let those persons go along quietly, that our company may not perceive any thing of them; But Dumachus refusing, Titus again said, I will give thee forty groats, and as a pledge, take my girdle, which he gave him before he had done speaking, that he might not open his mouth, or make a noise. When the Lady St. Mary saw the kindness which this robber did show them, she said to him, The Lord God will receive thee to his right hand, and grant thee pardon of thy sins.