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A18066 The voyage of the wandering knight. Deuised by Iohn Carthenie, a Frenchman: and translated out of French into English, by VVilliam Goodyear of South-hampton merchant. A vvorke vvorthie of reading, and dedicated to the Right worshipfull Sir Frauncis Drake, Knight; Voyage du chevalier errant. English Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Goodyear, William. 1581 (1581) STC 4700; ESTC S104901 93,834 138

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