And The Master Of Lifland Carried Home With Him Into His Countrey Three Thousand Captiues.

* * * * * The voyage of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester into Prussia, in the yeere 1391.

Written by Thomas Walsingham.

Eodem tempore dux Glouernia Dominus Thomas de Woodstock [Marginal note: Filius natu minimus Edwardi 3.], multis moerentibus, iter apparauit versus le Pruys: quem non Loudinensium gemitus, non communis vulgi moeror retinere poterant, quin proficisci vellet. Nam plebs communis tam Vrbana quam rustica metuebant quod eo absente aliquod nouum detrimentum succresceret, quo prasente nihil tale timebant. Siquidem in eo spes & solatium totus patria reposita videbantur. Ipse vero mox, vt fines patria sua transijt, illico aduersa agitatus fortuna, nunc hac nunc illac turbinibus procellosis circumfertur; & in tantum destituitur, vt de vita etiam desperaret. [Sidenote: Reditus.] Tandem post Daciam, post Norwagiam, post Scoticam barbariem non sine mortis pauore transcursam, peruenit Northumbriam, & ad castellum se contulit de Tinnemutha velut assylum antiquitus notum sibi: vbi per aliquot dies recreatus iter assumpsit versus manerium suum de Plashy, magnum apportans gaudium toti regno, tam de eius euasione, quam de aduentu suo.

The same in English.

At the same time the Duke of Glocester Lord Thomas of Woodstock (the yongest sonne of Edward the third) to the great griefe of many, tooke his iourney towards Prussia: whom neither the Londoners mones nor yet the lamentation of the communaltie could restraine from his intended expedition. For the common people both of the Citie and of the countrey feared lest in his absence some newe calamitie might happen; which they feared not while he was present.

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