Note 019
From Chapter 66 of the Decline & Fall

A short note of Manuel in England is extracted by Dr. Hody from a Ms. at Lambeth (de Graecis illustribus, p. 14),

C. P. Imperator, diu variisque et horrendis Paganorum insultibus coarctatus, ut pro eisdem resistentiam triumphalem perquireret, Anglorum Regem visitare decrevit, etc. Rex (says Walsingham, p. 364) nobili apparatu . . .suscepit (ut decuit) tantum Heroa, duxitque Londonias, et per multos dies exhibuit gloriose, pro expensis hospitii sui solvens, et eum respiciens tanto fastigio donativis.

He repeats the same in his Upodigma Neustriae (p. 556).

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