Note 318 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 4)
Reading edition
Year 1255: "Missus est in Angliam quidam elephas quem rex Francorum pro magno munere dedit regi Angliæ.... Nec credimus alium unquam visum fuisse in Anglia." "Abbreviatio Chronicorum," following the "Historia Anglorum" in Madden's edition, vol. iii. p. 344.