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AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



traversing the chanell, they came to a place called the 

 Fosse, eight miles from the towne. And the 30 first 

 sailes turned backe toward the cape of S. Martin and 

 other places to watch for ships of Christian men, if any 

 passed by to Rhodes. The great hoste abode still till 

 noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but 

 about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts : 

 and passed one after another before the towne and haven 

 of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in a place 

 nigh to land, called Perambolin, sixe miles from the 

 towne. In the which place the sayd hoste abode 

 from that time to the end of that unhappy siege. 



The number and names of the vessels that came to 

 besiege Rhodes. 



^He number of the ships were these : 30 galliasses, 

 103 gallies, aswell bastards as subtill mahonnets, 15 

 taffours, 20 fusts, 64 great ships, sixe or seven gallions, 

 & 30 galleres, beside the navy that waited for Christian 

 men, if any came to succour us. These were the vessels 

 that came at the first to lay the siege. And sith that the 

 sayd host came out of Perambolin, there came from 

 Syria 20 other sailes, aswell gallies as fusts. And many 

 other ships came sith, and joyned with the sayd army 

 in the time of the sayd siege. And it was sayd that 

 there were 400 sailes and moe. 



The same day that part of the host came to the sayd 

 place, the reverend lord great master ordeined a great 

 brigandine to send into the West, to certifie our holy 

 father the pope, and the Christian princes how the Turks 

 army was afore Rhodes. And in the sayd vessell he sent 

 two knights, one a French man named Sir Claude 

 dansoyville called Villiers, and Sir Loys de Sidonia a 

 Spaniard : and they went to the pope and to the 

 emperour. 



After the comming of the Turks navy into the sayd 

 place, it was 14 or 15 dayes or they set any ordinance 

 on land, great or small, or any quantity of men came 



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