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The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight

John Ashton and John Maundeville

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. . . they came againe and found those letters which they had written the yeare before without any defaute,3 and therefore it seemeth well that these hilles passe the cloudes to ye pure aire.

At Constantinople is the Emperours palaice which is fayre and well dight,4 and therein is a palaice for justing,5 and it is made about with stages that eche man may well see and none greve,6 other & under these stages are stables vauted for the Emperours horses and all the pillers of these stables are of marble. And within the church of Saint Sophy, an Emperour wold haue layd the body of his father when he was dead, and as they made the grave they found a body in the earth & upon that body lay a great plate of fine gold & there upon was written in Ebrew, Greke & Latin letters that sayde thus: Jesus Christus nascetur de virgine Marie, et ego credo in eum. That is to say, Jesu Christ shal be borne of the Virgin Mary & I believe in him. And the date was tha. . . Read More

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