The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 11 | Page 2

the Duke of Lancaster (as Froysard hath
noted) also Sir Iohn Russell, Sir Iohn Butler, Sir Iohn Harecourt and
others. They set forwarde in the latter ende of the thirteenth yeere of the
Kings reigne, and came to Genoa, where they remayned not verie long,
but that the gallies and other vessels of the Genouois were ready to
passe them ouer into Barbarie. And so about midsomer in the begining
of the foureteenth yere of this kings reigne the whole army being
embarked, sailed forth to the coast of Barbary, where neere to the city

of Africa they landed: [Sidenote: The Chronicles of Genoa] at which
instant the English archers (as the Chronicles of Genoa write) stood all
the company in good stead with their long bowes, beating backe the
enemies from the shore, which came downe to resist their landing.
After they had got to land, they inuironed the city of Africa (called by
the Moores Mahdia) with a strong siege: but at length, constrained with
the intemperancy of the scalding ayre in that hot countrey, breeding in
the army sundry diseases, they fell to a composition vpon certaine
articles to be performed in the behalfe of the Saracens: and so 61 dayes
after their arriuall there they tooke the seas againe, and returned home,
as in the histories of France and Genoa is likewise expressed. Where,
by Polidore Virgil it may seeme, that the lord Henry of Lancaster earle
of Derbie should be generall of the English men, that (as before you
heard) went into Barbary with the French men and Genouois.
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The memorable victories in diuers parts of Italie of Iohn Hawkwood
English man in the reigne of Richard the second, briefly recorded by M.
Camden.
Ad alteram ripam fluuij Colne oppositus est Sibble Heningham, locus
natalis, vt accepi, Ioannis Hawkwoodi (Itali Aucuthum corruptè vocant)
quem illi tantopere ob virtutem militarem suspexerunt, vt Senatus
Florentinus propter insignia merita equestri statua et tumuli honore in
eximiæ fortitudinis, fideíque testimonium ornauit. Res eius gestas Itali
pleno ore prædicant; Et Paulus Iouius in elogijs celebrat: sat mihi sit
Iulij Feroldi tetrastichon adijcere.
Hawkoode Angloram decus, et decus addite genti Italicæ, Italico
presidiúmque solo, Vt tumuli quondam Florentia, sic simulachri
Virtutem Ionius donat honore tuam.
William Thomas in his Historie of the common wealthes of Italy,
maketh honorable mention of him twise, to wit, in the commonwealth
of Florentia and Ferrara.
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The Epitaph of the valiant Esquire M. Peter Read in the south Ile of
Saint Peters Church in the citie of Norwich, which was knighted by
Charles the fift at the winning of Tunis in the yeere of our Lord 1538.
Here vnder lieth the corpes of Peter Reade Esquire, who hath worthily
serued, not onely his Prince and Countrey, but also the Emperour

Charles the fift, both at his conquest of Barbarie, and at his siege at
Tunis, and also in other places. Who had giuen him by the sayd
Emperour for his valiant deedes the order of Barbary. Who dyed the 29
day of December, in the yeere of our Lord God 1566.
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The voyage of Sir Thomas Chaloner to Alger with Charles the fift 1541,
drawen out of his booke De Republica instauranda.
Thomas Chalonerus patria Londinensis, studio Cantabrigensis,
educatione aulicus, religione pius, veréque Christianus fuit. Itaque cum
iuuenilem ætatem, mentémque suam humanioribus studijs roborasset,
Domino Henrico Kneuetto à potentissimo rege Henrico eius nominis
octauo ad Carolum quintum imperatorem transmisso legato, vnà cum
illo profectus est, tanquam familiaris amicus, vel eidem, à consilijs.
Quo quidem tempore Carolo quinto nauali certamine à Genua et
Corsica in Algyram in Africa contra Turcas classem soluente ac
hostiliter proficiscente, ornatissimo illo Kneuetto legato regis, Thoma
Chalonero, Henrico Knolleo, et Henrico Isamo, illustribus viris eundem
in illa expeditione suapte sponte sequentibus, paritérque militantibus,
mirifice vitam suam Chalonerus tutatus est. Nam triremi illa, in qua
fuerat, vel scopulis allisa, vel grauissimis pro cellis conquassata,
naufragus cum se diù natatu defendisset, deficientibus viribus, brachijs
manibusque languidis ac quasi eneruatis, prehensa dentibus cum
maxima difficultate rudenti, quæ ex altera triremi iam propinqua tum
fuerat eiecta, non sine dentium aliquorum iactura sese tandem
recuperauit, ac domum integer relapsus est.
The same in English.
Thomas Chaloner was by birth a Londiner, by studie a Cantabrigian, by
education a Courtier, by religion a deuout and true Christian. Therefore
after he had confirmed his youth and minde in the studies of good
learning, when Sir Henry Kneuet was sent ambassadour from the
mighty Prince Henry the 8. to the Emperour Charles the fift, he went
with him as his familiar friend, or as one of his Councell. At which
time the said Charles the 5. passing ouer from Genoa and Corsica to
Alger in Africa in