a duke, an earl, and ten men, all on horseback, and calling themselves good Christians.

They were of Lower Egypt, and gave out that, not long before, the Christians had subdued their country, and obliged them to embrace Christianity on pain of being put to death.

Those who were baptized were great lords in their own country, and had a king and queen there.

Soon after their conversion, the Saracens overran the country, and obliged them to renounce Christianity.

When the Emperor of Germany, the King of Poland, and other Christian princes heard of this, they fell upon them, and obliged the whole of them, both great and small, to quit the country, and go to the Pope at Rome, who enjoined them seven years' penance to wander over the world, without lying in a bed.