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JOseph of Exeter was born at the City of Exeter in Devonshire, he was also sirnamed Iscanus, from the River Isk, now called Esk, which run∣ning by that City, gave it formerly the denomi∣nation of Isca. This Joseph (saith my Author) was a Golden Poet in a Leaden Age, so terse and ele∣gant were his Conceits and Expressions. In his
younger years he accompanied King Richard the First, in his Expedition into the Holy Land, by which means he had the better advantage to cele∣brate, as he did, the Arts of that warlike Prince, in a Poem, entituled Antiochea. He also wrote six Books De Bello Trojano, in Heroick Verse, which, as the learned Cambden well observes, was no other then that Version of Dares Phyrgius into Latine Verse. Yet so well was it excepted, that the Dutch∣men not long since Printed it under the name of Cornelius Nepos, an Author who lived in the time of Tully, and wrote many excellent pieces in Poe∣try, but upon a strict view of all his Works, not any such doth appear amongst them; they there∣fore do this Joseph great wrong in depriving him the honour of his own Works. He was after∣wards, for his deserts, preferred to be Arch-bishop of Burdeaux, in the time of King John, about the year 1210.