Note 019
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,
&c. 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.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 66