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Capitulum quintumdecimum.
Canaan is a region of Syria, [Siria, Harl. MS., and so throughout.] possessede firste of the childre of Canaan, sonnes of Chayin, after Noe floode, conteynenge [Canaan.] in hit vij. naciones as cursede by enheritaunce of Cam the sonne of Noe. Palestina is a prouince off Syria, callede [Palestina.] somme tyme Philistea, the chiefe cyte of whom was called [Philistea.] Philistijm and now Ascalon, of whiche cite alle that prouince was callede Palestina or Philistea, and the inhabitatores of hit were callede Philisteis, for men of Ebrewe vse not this letter, f, but ph in the place of hit. Of whom the Philisteies were callede alophili, [The translator's orthography, who evidently thinks … is Hebrew, has been allowed to stand. Just before he has wrongly written f for p.] that is to say aliauntes, in so moche that they were straunge alleweyes to the childer of Israel. That region hathe Egipte on the sowthe parte of hit and men of Tire at the weste, the Iewery at the northe, and