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The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales

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This second successor to the martyr Thomas, having heard of the
insults offered to our Saviour and his holy cross, was amongst the
first who signed themselves with the cross, and manfully assumed the
office of preaching its service both at home and in the most remote
parts of the kingdom. Pursuing his journey to the Holy Land, he
embarked on board a vessel at Marseilles, and landed safely in a
port at Tyre, from whence he proceeded to Acre, where he found our
army both attacking and attacked, our forces dispirited by the
defection of the princes, and thrown into a state of desolation and
despair; fatigued by long expectation of supplies, greatly afflicted
by hunger and want, and distempered by the inclemency of the air:
finding his end approaching, he embraced his fellow subjects,
relieving their wants by liberal acts of charity and pious
exhortations, and by the tenor of his life and actions strengthened
them in the faith; whose ways, life, and deeds, may he who is alone
the "way, the truth, and the life," the way without offence, the
truth without doubt, and the life without end, direct in truth,
together with the whole body of the faithful, and for the glory of
his name and the palm of faith which he hath planted, teach their
hands to war, and their fingers to fight.



Footnotes:


{1} It is a somewhat curious coincidence that the island of Barry
is now owned by a descendant of Gerald de Windor's elder brother -
the Earl of Plymouth.

{2} "Mirror of the Church," ii. 33.

{3} "Social England," vol. i. p. 342.

{4} Published in the first instance in the "Transactions of the
Cymmrodaian Society," and subsequently amplified and brought out in
book form.

{5} Introduction to Borrow's "Wild Wales" in the Everyman Series.

{6} Geoffrey, who ended his life as Bishop of St. Asaph, was
supposed to have found the material for his "History of the British
Kings" in a Welsh book, containing a history of the Britons, which
Waltor Colenius, Archdeacon of Oxford, picked up during a journey in
Brittany.

{7} Walter Map, another Archdeacon of Oxford, was born in
Glamorganshire, the son of a Norman knight by a Welsh mother. Inter
alia he was the author of a Welsh work on agriculture.

{8} Green, "Hist. Eng. People," i. 172.

{9} "England under the Angevin Kings," vol. ii. 457.

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