Chapter XXXI
PRESTER JOHN. THE ASSASSINS
OF THE RYAƚƚ ESTATE OF PRESTRE IOℏN & OF A RICHE MAN ÞAT MADE A MER [folio 114] UEYLOUS CASTEƚƚ AND CLEPED IT PARADYS & OF HIS SOTYLTEE.
THIS Emperour Prestre Ioℏn holt fuƚƚ gret lond And hatℏ many fuƚƚ noble cytees & gode townes in his Royalme and many grete dyuerse yles & large. For aƚƚ the contree of ynde is deuysed in yles for the grete flodes þat comen from PARADYS þat departen aƚƚ the lond in many parties. And also in the see he hatℏ fuƚƚ manye yles. And the beste cytee in the yle of PENTEXOIRE is NYSE þat is a fuƚƚ ryaƚƚ cytee & a noble and fuƚƚ riche This Prestre Ioℏn hatℏ vnder him many kynges & many yles & many dyuerse folk of dyuerse condiciouns And this lond is fuƚƚ gode & ryche, but not so riche as is the lond of the grete CHANE. For the marchauntes comen not thider so comounly for to bye marchandises as þei don in the lond of the gret CHANE, for it is to fer to trauaylle to. And on þat otℏer partie, in the yle of CATHAY men fynden aƚƚ maner thing þat is nede to man clothes of