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THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAYLE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE, KNIGHT.


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  THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAYLE
  OF
  SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE
  KNIGHT

  WHICH TREATETH OF THE WAY TOWARD HIERUSALEM
  AND OF MARVAYLES OF INDE WITH OTHER
  ILANDS AND COUNTREYS


  _EDITED, ANNOTATED, AND ILLUSTRATED IN FACSIMILE_

  BY

  JOHN ASHTON

  _Author of "Chap Books of the 18th Century," "Social
  Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," "English Caricature and
  Satire on Napoleon I.," &c._

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  LONDON

  PICKERING & CHATTO
  66, HAYMARKET

  1887


  CHISWICK PRESS:--C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,
  CHANCERY LANE.


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PREFACE.


I HAVE edited, and illustrated "The Voiage and Travayle of Syr John
Maundeville, Knight," for two reasons. First, that a popular edition
has not been published for many years--so much so, that many otherwise
well educated people hardly know his name; or, if they do, have never
read his book of Marvels. Secondly, a good edition has not yet been
published. Putting aside the chap-books of the eighteenth century,
which could only cram a small portion of his book into their little
duodecimos, the only English versions of this century are the reprint
by Halliwell, in 1839, of the _reprint_ in 1725-1727, of the early
fifteenth century MS. (Cotton, Tit. c. 16), which he again reprinted
in 1866,[1] the edition in "Bohn's Classical Library" ("Early Travels
in Palestine"), 1848; and "The English Explorers," which forms part
of Nimmo's "National Library," 1875. There was also a small edition
published in Cassell's "National Library" in 1886 in modern English.

Halliwell's reprint of the Cotton MS. is open to objection, because
the language of the MS. is specially rude, and can only be understood
by professed antiquaries, no footnotes explanatory of the text being
given, only a glossary at the end of the book. Also, Mr. Halli