| Description Of Item | Notes on St James ‘champion of Spain’. Once he ‘requested to be bound to a pine-tree with his breast laid open naked against the [Sun]’, the quote continue ‘then to’ but stops there. It also mentions how, when St James ‘carried way the king of Jerusalems daughter: by Policy prevented all ensuring dangers’ because his horse was shod backwards, ‘whereby when they were missed in court, they might be followed the contrary way’.
Copied partly from Richard Johnson, The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom, first part (1597?).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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