JOHN LOCKE AD. 



1553- 



Captaines, Governour and Generall. The lande gate 



hath alwayes fiftle souldiers, pikes and gunners with their 

 harnes, watching thereat night and day. At the sea gate 

 five and twentie, upon the walles every night doe watch 

 fifteene men in watch houses, for every watch house five 

 men, and in the market place 30 souldiers continually. 

 There may no soldier serve there above 5. yeres, neither 

 will they without friendship suffer them to depart afore 

 5. yeres be expired, and there may serve of all nations 

 except Greekes. They have every pay, which is 45. 

 dayes, 15 Mozenigos, which is 15 shillings sterling. Mozenigo. 

 Their horsemen have onely sixe soldes Venetian a day, Solde of 

 and provender for their horses, but they have also cer- ^^^^<^^' 

 taine lande therewith to plow and sowe for the mainten- 

 ance of their horses, but truely I marvell how they live 

 being so hardly fed, for all the sommer they feede onely 

 upon chopt strawe and barley, for hey they have none, 

 and yet they be faire, fat and serviceable. The Vene- 

 tians send every two yeeres new rulers, which they call 

 Castellani. The towne hath allowed it also two gallies Castellanl 

 continually armed and furnished. 



The 30 in the morning we ridde to a chappell, where 

 they say Saint Katherin was borne. This Chappell is ^^'^^^ Kathe- 

 \\\ olde Famag^usta, the which was destroyed by Enorlish- ^f^^ ^^^PP^ 

 men, and is cleane overthrowne to the ground, to this ^^^^^^ 

 day desolate and not inhabited by any person, it was 

 of a great circuit, and there be to this day mountaines 

 of faire, great, and strong buildings, and not onely there, 

 but also in many places of the Hand. Moreover when Dhers coines 

 they digge, plowe, or trench they finde sometimes olde ^^'^<^^' S^'f^"^'^ 

 antient coines, some of golde, some of silver, and some 

 of copper, yea and many tombes and vautes with sepul- 

 chers in them. This olde Famagusta is from the other, 

 foure miles, and standeth on a hill, but the new towne 

 on a plaine. Thence we returned to new Famagusta 

 againe to dinner, and toward evening we went about 

 the towne, and in the great Church we sawe the tombe 

 of king Jaques, which was the last king of Cyprus, and 



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