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He applied so well all the yeeres of his youth to the study of humane and diuine Lawes, that he came not so soone to the age of a man, as he had purchased to himselfe by reason of his singular learning, renowme and honour. When the noble men of France went to Ptolomais, vpon the counsell of Iohn Brenne king of Ierusalem, they resolued to besiege Damiata a city of Egypt, in the yeere 1218.
Nak-sivan, or Nag-jowan. This must be an error for eighty. Rubruquis here tells a long story of an Armenian prophecy, from which they expected to be freed from the iron yoke of the Tartars, by St Louis, not worth inserting. Kurke or Kurch. Aias-cala, in the gulf of Aiasso, or Scanderoon. Antioch or Antakia. Ptolomais, or St John d'Acre. Travels of Haitho, Prince of Armenia, in Tartary, in 1254 .
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