[Footnote 1: "And there were in our company two friers minours of Lombardy, & sayd, if any of us wold go in, they wold also, as they had sayd so, and upon trust of them we sayd that we wold go, & we dyd sing a masse, and were shriven & houseled, and we went in xiiii men, and wh[=e] we came out we were but x."] [Footnote 2: Havergal's _Fasti Herefordenses_, p. 161.] [Footnote 3: "Ancient Funerall Monuments, &c. Composed by the Travels and Studie of John Weever." Lond. 1631. It is exceedingly singular that a book published at Antwerp in 1584, "The Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliæ Belgicæ partes Abrahami Ortelii et Joannis Viviani," confirms Weever, in such almost identical words, that it is not worth while to append a translation. Ortelius, or Ortell, writes (p. 16):--"_Est in hac quoq. regione Gulielmitar[~u] C[oe]nobium in quo epitaphi[~u] hoc Joannis à Mandeuille excepimus_: HIC IACET VIR NOBILIS D[~NS] JO[~E]S DE MANDEVILLE AL' D[~CV]S AD BARBAM, MILES D[~NS] DE C[~A]PDI, NATUS DE ANGLIA, MEDICI[~E] [~P][~F]ESSOR DEVOTISSIMVS ORATOR ET BONORUM LARGISSIMVS PAUPERIBUS EROGATA QUI TOTO QUASI ORBE LUSTRATO LEODII DIEM VITE SUE CLAVSIT EXTREMUM [~AN]O D[~NI] M^O CCC^O LXXI MENSIS NOV[~E]BRE' DIE XVII. "_Hæc in lapide, in quo c[oe]lata viri armati imago, leonem calcantis, barba bifurcata, ad caput manus benedicens, & vernacula hæc verba_: VOS KI PASEIS SOR MI POVR LAMOVR DEIX PROIES POR ME. _Clypeus erat vacuus, in quo olim laminam fuisse dicebant æream, & eius in ea itidem c[oe]lata insignia, leonem videlicet argenteum, cui ad pectus lunula rubea, in campo c[oe]ruleo, quem limbus ambiret denticulatus ex oro. Eius nobis ostendeb[~a]t & cultros, ephippioque, & calcaria, quibus usum fuisse affereb[~a]t in perigrando toto fere terrarum orbe, vt clarius eius testatur Itinerarium, quod typis etiam excusum passim habetur._"] [Footnote 4: "Otherwise called the Bearded Knight."] [Footnote 5: An order founded by Sir William of Maleval--a hermit--who died 10th Feb., 1157. The order was somewhat austere, as the members went barefoot, and their fasts were almost continual. They have nearly all been absorbed into the Augustines.] [Decoration] [Decoration] THE TABLE. CAP. PAGE Preface v Introduction ix I. He that wyl go toward Hierusalem on horse, on foote, or by sea 4 II. Of the Ilands of Greece 14 III. To come againe to Constantinople for to go to the Holy Land 19 IV. Of a terrible dragon 22